Lardas, Mark/Rodríguez, Irene Cano (Illustr.) 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.

Captain Gallery and his task group 22.3 devised a risky plan to capture damaged German U-boats.
This book analyses Gallery's dangerous strategy in detail, drawing on contemporary sources to reveal why he felt the price was worth the risk: instead of trying to sink the next U-boat that appeared below them, a destroyer escort was to send out their escort boat. Everyone else was to keep the submarine at bay with light gunfire to persuade the crew to surrender quickly. Unaware that the Allies had already cracked the German codes and that capturing a U-boat could jeopardise this secret, Gallery hoped to capture the ship's codes and coding equipment to read the U-boats' communications. The plan culminated in the capture of U-505 in early June, which almost led to the exposure of the Bletchley Park secret.
Featuring contemporary photographs, specially commissioned artwork and 3D maps, this book is a fascinating exploration of one of the most controversial and dangerous ship captures that could have changed the outcome of World War 2 as we know it.