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Originally Posted by The Colonel
I've heard rumors that various torpedo boat forces developed a technique of running directly across the bows of a larger target and dropping a depth charge set to minimum depth so that it exploded as their opponent ran over it. I've never heard of it actually being used in combat - a few surface vessels have been sunk by depth charges, but in almost all cases, they came from the same vessel they sank.
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USS Yorktown (CV-5) was already crippled, but the depth charges of USS Hammann certainly didn't help matters.