On my 3-15 blog entry, I wrote about Naval veteran Richard Sellers recalling using this weapon against enemy submarines.
From Wikipedia.
The Mark 24 Mine was also called "Fido." It was a US air-dropped passive acoustic homing anti-submarine torpedo, called mine for security reasons. It sounds as if this was a German or Japanese submarine's worst enemy as it would "hunt" them down.
Some 4,000 were produced and of 204 dropped, 34 submarines sunk and another 18 damaged.
It carried a 92-pound Torpex high explosive.
Don't Look Now. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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