these groups roamed the water hunting for U-boats. One special Hunter-Killer Task Group even managed to capture a submarine—the U-505. The U-505 was launched on May 24, 1941, and completed 12 ...

the U-505 was one of the German navy's Type IX-class submarines, a long-range attack boat developed with longer dive times and agility compared to its predecessors. Given the Kriegsmarine's ...

On the way, they pulled off one of the most impressive naval feats of the war: capturing the German U-boat U-505 completely intact — including its valuable Enigma machines and the codebooks ...

The U-505 was one of six U-boats captured during WWII, and every submarine captured provided valuable intelligence for locating and destroying the rest of the Nazi’s naval fleet. Joshua Skovlund ...

There is a grim chart on a side wall of the U-505 exhibition that shows the thousands of ships hit by submarines, mostly U-boats that took down 3,000 ships. By contrast, the USS Silversides SS-236 ...

1944: Germany’s U-505 submarine was taken by American Task Group 22.3, near Africa. It was the first time since the 19th century the U.S. Navy had captured an enemy vessel at sea. Vintage Chicago ...

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On June 4 1944 Captain Daniel Gallery and his men of the US Naval Task Force 223 did the nearly impossible they captured a German Uboat It was the first enemy vesselofwar captured in battle on the ...