Depth charge
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A depth charge is an anti-submarine warfare weapon designed to destroy submarines by detonating in the water near the target and subjecting it to a destructive hydraulic shock. Most depth charges use
US World War II Mark IX depth charge. Streamlined and equipped with fins to impart rotation, allowing it to fall in a straight trajectory with less chance of drifting off target. This depth charge contained 200 lb (91 kg) of Torpex.
The Mk 101 Lulu was a US nuclear depth bomb operational from 1958 to 1972
Depth charges on USS Cassin Young (DD-793)
Depth charge exploding after being released by HMS Ceylon
Andrew J. May
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Andrew Jackson May was an attorney and U.S. representative from Kentucky, serving from 1931 to 1947. He was an influential New Deal-era Democratic politician and chairman of the House Military Affairs
Depth charge
…test depth of 200 ft (61 m); while the WWII Balao-class submarines (1943) could reach 400 ft (120 m). This changed in June 1943 when U.S. Congressman Andrew J. May of the House Military Affairs Committee caused The May Incident. The congressman, who had just returned from the Pacific theater where he had received…
May in 1939