The Capture of U-505: The Us Navy's Controversial Enigma Raid, Atlantic Ocean 1944 Lardas Mark
The Capture of U-505: The Us Navy's Controversial Enigma Raid, Atlantic Ocean 1944 Lardas Mark U-505 was the first enemy warship the US Navy captured at sea since 1812. It was not the first time the…
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The Capture of U-505: The Us Navy's Controversial Enigma Raid, Atlantic Ocean 1944 Lardas Mark
U-505 was the first enemy warship the US Navy captured at sea since 1812. It was not the first time the Allies had taken a German U-boat as a prize, but the capture of U-505 was different. This is a new account of how Captain Gallery planned and executed the raid on his own initiative, and how his success almost endangered the war against the U-boats.On June 4, 1944 a US Navy antisubmarine task group in the Atlantic captured an enemy U-boat on the high seas.
Everyone else was to smother the U-boat with light Captain Gallery and his Task Group 22.3 devised a risky plan to capture scuttled U-boats.This book analyses in detail Gallery's dangerous strategy, using contemporary sources to explore why he thought the reward was worth the risk: instead of attempting to sink the next U-boat that surfaced among them, a destroyer escort would send off its whaleboat.