![]() Over the years, I have wondered about U-505 and its path to the fateful confrontation with Captain Gallery’s force. That tour and watching filmmaker Wolfgang Petersen’s 1981 motion picture Das Boot (The Boat), about a WWII German submarine in the Atlantic, disabused me of any stereotypes about undersea life. Never have I felt so claustrophobic in my life. Since 1954, the Type IX C U-boat has been an exhibit, now indoors and some 35,000 square feet, at Chicago’s wonderful Museum of Science and Industry on the South Side of the city. In June 1996, I visited the Museum and toured U-505. ![]() Gallery’s Task Group 22.3, the capture of the crew (they were subsequently transferred to Camp Ruston in northern Louisiana), and the work by a boarding party from escort carrier USS Guadalcanal ensuring it did not sink have been so ably described by my colleague Kali Martin that they need no further elaboration here. ![]() The first enemy vessel seized at sea by the United States Navy since the War of 1812, the assault on the sub by Captain Daniel V. World War II ended for the 58 survivors aboard German submarine U-505 on June 4, 1944, about 150 miles from Rio de Oro, Western Sahara. Top Image: JBoarding party from USS Pillsbury (DE-133) working to secure a tow line to U-505’s bow.
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