U-Boat Near Gibraltar

It's just before we got to Gibraltar. They had an alarm thing on the ship which went, "Whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop." All the ships turned their noses together. ‘Course we were all running up the deck to see what the hell was going on. All the noses were together, a Corvette come whipping through there. It looked to us, it looked to me like the two guys at the back of the boat throwing barrels, little barrels, over the back. They were depth charges, of course, and I suppose it must be some kind of a machine, but that's what it looked like from where I was. And you could feel it on the boat. Made a funny noise, being a farm kid it sounded like if it had been a big wind and was tearing the shingles off the roof. That's what it sounded like in the ship. Anyways, I see this thing come up, looked like a big, black whale, come up, bust open and guys sprung, they blew up a submarine there. And the thing I couldn't understand was, if that damn submarine was there, he'd knock out a lot of our ships, but that damn Corvette was going around there picking all these, saving all these guys floating around on the water. Hell, they were Germans. They were trying to kill us. We were down there taught to kill them guys, you know, they're saving them. Didn't make no sense, either. Nothing in war does.