Yep. The airplane was most feared by the U-boats because they could not submerge fast enough in most cases to avoid being damaged. The presence of aircraft also greatly disrupted the U-boats ability to traverse the oceans to position themselves for attack.
You wonder what those German sailors felt watching that; must have been the worst feeling knowing it was over. Their pilots must have felt the same way the first time they watched escort fighters drop their wing tanks and engage German fighter planes rather than turn around because they couldn’t carry enough fuel to get Allied bombers to the targets and back...