Twenty Million Tons Under the Sea: The Daring Capture of the U-505 - Daniel V. Gallery
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Terrific the first-hand story of Uncle Sams U-Boat killers. Chicago Daily News, The only thing that really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril. . . . Winston Churchill, German U-Boats were causing havoc for the Allied fleets across the oceans of the world., The Battle of the Atlantic had been ongoing since the beginning of the war and the Royal Navy, United States Navy and Allied merchant shipping were taking heavy casualties against these underwater terrors., The U-505 had been launched on 25 May 1941., Over the next three years she went on to sink a total of eight ships., But the upper hand that once had been held by U-Boats was beginning to weaken and tide began to turn in favor of the Allied navies., Daniel Gallery, in his brilliant memoir, explains how he led Task Group 21.12 in the battle against the U-Boat threat., Commanding the USS Guadalcanal he led his crew to sink three of these menacing submarines, but his greatest achievement was to capture the U-505 off t
