To all those out there who hate the Anson (you know who you are!) Here something I found on u-boat.net showing how innefectual it was at anti sub operations:
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But as maritime reconnaissance aircraft it was a failure: Slow, vulnerable, short-ranged, with pitifully weak armament. The ineffectiveness of the 100lb bomb was illustrated in December 1939, when the British submarine HMS Snapper was attacked in error, hit directly, and suffered four broken lightbulbs.
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