The Capture of U-505 : The US Navy's controversial Enigma raid, Atlantic Ocean 1944 Paperback / softback
by Mark Lardas
Illustrated by Irene Cano Rodriguez
Part of the Raid series
Paperback / softback
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:80 pages, Illustrated throughout with around 50 photos and 9 pages of colour illustrations
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:24/11/2022
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- ISBN:9781472849366
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:80 pages, Illustrated throughout with around 50 photos and 9 pages of colour illustrations
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:24/11/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781472849366