A handwritten account of Harry Anderson's real-time submarine depth charges at the Northwest Montana History Museum's new exhibit titled "The Silent Service: A WWII Diving Denizen of the Deep, Harry Martin Anderson" on Thursday, Aug. 8. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Casey Kreider
August 8, 2024
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Northwest Montana History Museum exhibit provides glimpse into Silent Service
It was only a year after Kalispell native Harry Anderson graduated college that he was assigned to the USS Perch II’s (SS-313) sixth patrol near the very end of World War II’s Pacific Theater. The submarine would endure two hours of depth charges from a Japanese ship up above during this excursion.