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Like hounds around fox, shipi surround stricken sub. Nervy gobs pile down hatch to close valves. Sub founders as towing begins. Crew breathes easier; sub is "i I LLL t3CL tfft Impossible to toko'a Gorman submarine on the high seas? It wose-until the Navy did It in one of the moit daring of World War II. 7 Adm.

Gallery, who led operation, stands in conning tower of German sub, first enemy man-c-'-war captured since Inset photo shows German crew, now prisoners of war, climbing aboard rescue ship after they were pulled from the sea. SLOWLY as pouftd in, her decks raked by gunfire, the Nazi submarine was boarded and captured by American sailors in the waning days of World Wai- first such capture of an enemy man-o'-war since 1815. 0 The capture gave the Allies the 3 key to the German naval code and invaluable information on U-bdfet operations during the invasion of Europe, when vital supplies had to be kept flowing to the Nor- rifendy beachhead. Boarding taking enemy vessels was commonplace in the days sailing ships, but with airplanes, sonar? radar, and all the mechanics of modern war, it's unheard of course, the captuse cf the U-505. Here's how that prize was taken.

In May an American task force consisting of the escort carrier U.S.S. Guadalcanal and five destroyer escorts steamed out of Norfolk, It was a "hunter- killer" group, specifically designed to search out submarines. Capt. Qanicl V. Gallery, now a rear admiral, commanded the task force from the Guadalcanal.

He had a plan to capture a if one was forced to and bfarding parties ransthrough drill after drill, waiting for the chance in a million to board a U-boat before it sank. About noon on Sunday, June 4, a destroyer pidfccd up a sub on its sound apparatus. The task fSrce closed in with depth charges as fighters went aloft to mark the sub's position with fire. Rocked by the depth charges, the sub frantically tried to cvadwthe attack. Listen to the words of one of the German crcw: Q6 series of depth charges exploded witn their hard, steely, and nerve-killing noise quite near us.

BY? U-505 went down like a dive bonder 0 The lights went out and the Steering was out of control. WeSwent deeper and deeper. Thank goodness, the air pipes were still in order and we got to the surface where the planes came over us like a jack St dogs, firing with their machine all sides while we were trying to leave the boat. Our commander was another killed. But we managed to leave the U-505." 0 the sub surfaced, Gallery put his capture plan into effect.

Three destroyer escorts closed in, sweeping the U-505's decks with small-arms fire while Wildcat fighters overhead poured in machine-gun fire, trying to force the Germans to flee before they could destroy their ship. A nine-man boarding party led by Lt. Albert L. David shoved off from the destroyer U.S.S. Pillsbiiry.

The sub, its rudder jammed and motors still running, slowly moved in a circle. The boarding 0 party reached the sub and found its decks deserted except for one crewman's only fatality of the fight. aboard the sub and down the conning-tower hatch, the American sailors djdn't know how long the sub would stay afloat; she was already foundering. They had their guns ready in case any With and Stripes aloft, U-505 begins long voyage to America. U-Boat! I Family Weekly.

September 1957 last-ditch Nazif were below. The sub might be mined or booby- trapped high explosives, but the boarding party went to work. And not one of them had ever been aboard a sub before! Thriugh darkness, the rush of water, the grinding noise of their boat against the sub's side, and the drunken wallowing of the itrickeri U-505, the nine men frantically searched for sea-valves the Germans left open or explosives they might have planted. During the search, the sub's motors were stopped, but as it lost way, the U-505 began to settle deeper in the sea. Hastily the motors were restated, but the batteries powering them were dangerously low, the flooded diesels could not function.

0 It was touch and go whether the sub would stay aflost. Obviously, she would have to be towed. But when the Pillsbury hove alongside to pass a line to the forward compartments of the destroyer were pierced by the sub's underwSter diving planes. The destroyer had to pull off repairs, and the task force faced loss of their prize after having it in their grasp. Now the carrier's boarding party arrived with a line from the Guadalcanal.

Slowly the tow line tightened, then held. A cheer went up from the boarders as the sub gained speed through tHe rolling seas. Still sluggish and weighted by her flooded compartments, the U-505 rose slightly in the water as the tow pulled taut. The task force heaved a collective sigh; it looked as if they had lhado naval history. And they had.

Although they were only 100 miles off the African coast, the task force headed foj-gBermuda, 1,700 miles to the west. African ports wcrc infested with spies, and capture had to be kept an absolute secret. The 3,000 members of the task force were sworn to scgrcey, and not a word leaked out. The Germans not only failed to sink their sub. but they left their codebogks aboard.

The U.S. Navy had the key to German naval communications and a powerful weapon to protect our supply lines. Not until after the war ended was the capture made public. Admiral Gallery, in his book about the Atlantic submarine wflr, "Twenty Million Tons Under the Sea," calls the capture of the codebooks "the greatest intelligence windfall of the war." Ten years after its capture, the U-505 was towed thousands of miles from salt water to Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry, where it now stands as a vivid memorial to the 55,000 American fighting men who. died at sea.

U-505, mammcth war trophy, now rests peacefully at Chicago museum. Family Weekly. Septc7iil)cr 5 Headache? a Bufferin! acts twice as fast as aspirin 1. Medical science knows that a pain reliever must go through the stomach and into the blood to relieve pain. 2.

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