{"product_id":"the-capture-of-u-505-the-us-navys-controversial-enigma-raid-atlantic-ocean-1944","title":"Mark Lardas: The Capture of U-505: The US Navy's controversial Enigma raid, Atlantic Ocean 1944: 58 [2022] paperback","description":"\u003cb\u003eU-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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eFeaturing 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.","brand":"Lardas, Mark \u0026 Cano Rodriguez, Irene","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44207333867810,"sku":"9781472849366","price":19.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/lardas-mark-cano-rodriguez-irene-mark-lardas-the-capture-of-u-505-the-us-navy-s-controversial-enigma-raid-atlantic-ocean-1944-58-2022-paperback-9781472849366-58383078162771.jpg?v=1726968013","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/the-capture-of-u-505-the-us-navys-controversial-enigma-raid-atlantic-ocean-1944","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}