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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

How would anyone know that? The attacking surface ships would have no way of knowing how close any of their depth charges came to the sub, nor how many did what damage. If the sub was sunk then the guys inside aren't around to say what happened inside.

As far as subs sunk, you are right. I assume what I read was based on U-boats that were forced to the surface, where the crew was captured. I don't know the details. However, the numbers you gave for min. blast radius of DC, being 8m or less, tends to suggest single catastrophic hits were not the likely.

??? The only thing I remember reading about that said that they dropped them at least half-a-mile away. That was a long time ago, and I could be misremembering, but I would think that dropping them that close would be asking for trouble

My source is O'Kane.