The Capture of U-505 - The US Navy's controversial Enigma raid, Atlantic Ocean 1944

U-505 was the first enemy warship the US Navy captured at sea since 1812. 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. 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. 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. Everyone else was to smother the U-boat with light gunfire to encourage its crew to abandon quickly. Unaware that the Allies had already cracked the German''s codes and the capture of a U-boat could endanger that secret, Gallery hoped to capture the vessel''s codes and coding equipment to read U-boat message traffic. The plan culminated in the capture of U-505 in early June, which nearly caused the exposure of the Bletchley Park codebreaking secret. Featuring contemporary photographs, specially commissioned artwork and 3D maps, this book is a fascinating exploration of one of the most controversial and dangerous raids, which could have changed the outcome of World War II as we know it.>

Product details

• Authors: Mark Lardas, Lardas Mark
• Assisted by: Irene Cano Rodriguez (Illustration), Irene Cano Rodríguez (Illustration), Irene Cano Rodríguez (Illustration)
• Publisher: Osprey Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9781472849366
• ISBN: 978-1-4728-4936-6
• No. of pages: 80
• Dimensions: 185 mm x 247 mm x 6 mm
• Series: Raid
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Germany, HISTORY / Military / Naval, HISTORY / Military / United States, maritime history, TRANSPORTATION / Ships & Shipbuilding / Submarines, Naval forces & warfare, United States of America, USA, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Naval forces and warfare