Sinking of German Submarine U-1235
On 22 August, Snowden joined task group TG 22.5 and operated in the Caribbean until 30 December 1944 when it returned to Norfolk. On 25 March 1945, the task group sailed to the north-central Atlantic to hunt enemy submarines. No contact was made until 15 April. Snowden left the barrier patrol to screen Croatan while USS Stanton (DE-247) and Frost attacked. Six minutes later, both ships were shaken by a violent explosion. At 0114 the next morning, there was an even larger explosion, which shook ships 12 miles away, followed by several minor ones. That was the end of U-1235.
The hunter-killer group entered Argentia, Newfoundland, on 25 April, for three days and then put to sea for two more weeks of hunting. Snowden stopped at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on 14 May for two weeks and then moved down to Norfolk.
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