Name: The Capture of U-505: The us Navy'S Controversial Enigma Raid, Atlantic Ocean 1944 (en Inglés)
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Author: Lardas, Mark ; Rodríguez, Irene Cano
ISBN: 9781472849366

portada The Capture of U-505: The us Navy'S Controversial Enigma Raid, Atlantic Ocean 1944 (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Mark Lardas

Ilustrado por

Irene Cano Rodríguez

Editorial

Osprey Publishing (UK)

Año

2022

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

24.7 x 18.5 x 0.5 cm

Peso

0.26 kg.

ISBN13

9781472849366

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Segunda guerra mundial - (c. 1939-c. 1945)
Segunda guerra mundial
Barcos y embarcaciones

The Capture of U-505: The us Navy'S Controversial Enigma Raid, Atlantic Ocean 1944 (en Inglés)

Mark Lardas (Autor) · Irene Cano Rodríguez (Ilustrado por) · Osprey Publishing (UK) · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "The Capture of U-505: The us Navy'S Controversial Enigma Raid, Atlantic Ocean 1944 (en Inglés)"

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.