NARRATIVE OF ATTACK BY LIEUT.(JG)
	J.E. OGLE, III, USNR, LIEUT.(JG)
	M.E. BURSTAD, USNR and ENSIGN T.E.
	JENKINS, USNR on 13 December, 1943.
	While conducting an expanding search from the scene of the attack by Lieutenant (jg) E.G. Gaylord, USNR on 12 December, 1943 (See ASW-6 report No. 5), the U.S.S. DUPONT established a sound contact with a submarine 8 miles from the previous attack, following which presence of submarine was verified by use of sono-buoys from planes and sound contact made by DUPONT and U.S.S. GEORGE E.BADGER.
	Numerous attacks were made by destroyers, assisted by planes using sono-buoys, and at 1304, a moving oil slick was sighted.  Continuous attacks were made by destroyers during the day and night, contact being frequently lost and regained, and U/Boat coming to the surface on one occasion during the night.  (See reports from destroyers).
	At 0810 on 13 December 1943 plane #10 (TBF-1C, pilot Lt.(jg) H.G. Bradshaw, USN) sighted moving oil slick 7 miles from scene of previous attack, bearing 2360T.  At 0815 U.S.S. CLEMSON and U.S.S. OSMOND INGRAM were dispatched to the scene.  Contact was established, and destroyers made several attacks.  (See reports from destroyers)
	At 1115 the following planes were in the vicinity: Lieutenant (jg) Ogle in Plane #20, circling area and assisting destroyers with sono-buoys; Lieutenant (jg) Burstad in Fighter plane #2 and Ensign Jenkins in Fighter plane #6 circling U.S.S. BOGUE, which was then approximately 9 miles from the area, bearing 2390T.
	At 1116 Lieutenant (jg) Ogle and Lieutenant (jg) Burstad simultaneously saw the bow of the U/Boat break the surface.  The bow came up at a very sharp angle, estimated to be 600; then slid back into the water; and finally rose slowly assuming an even keel.  As soon as it reached the surface, the U/Boat commenced a tight turn to starboard, and men were seen tumbling out of the conning tower and into the water.
	Plane #20 turned and commenced a depth charge run from the port quarter, but upon observing men abandoning ship, he made a strafing run on the port beam.  Planes #2 and #6 came in on a strafing run and passed over the U/Boat after first run of Plane #20.  The pilots of Plane #2 and #20 believed that a few bursts of AA fire met them on their first runs.
	The three planes then swept back and forth across the U-boat, raking it with .50 calibre machine gun fire.  Pilots observed fire from deck guns of OSMOND INGRAM, CLEMSON and GEORGE E. BADGER (which had come up to attack), striking the conning tower and deck of the U/Boat.  Approximately 3 minutes after the bow had broken the surface, the pilots saw a heavy explosion and a sheet of flame rise from the conning tower.  The submarine then began to smoke heavily.
	Under this attack the U/Boat continued on its course to starboard, and having completed a turn through 3600, it sank at approximately the same position at which it had surfaced, at 1121.  Planes saw destroyers picking up survivors in the water.