On June 4, 1944, the escort carrier USS Guadalcanal and its escort destroyers picked up a sonar ping. A U-boat was hiding off the coast of Cape Verde. U.S. Navy Captain Daniel V. Gallery was in command of his second hunter-killer cruise as skipper of the Guadalcanal. Having already sunk three U-boats, he was determined to capture one and get the trove of valuable intelligence information hidden aboard it. He was so ready to make history; he had several boarding teams and a film crew ready and waiting. The U-Boat Chase Begins Charles Lachman, a journalist whose work includes The New York Post, Fox News, and "Inside Edition," has written a new book about the capture of U-505. Called "Codename Nemo: The Hunt for a Nazi U-Boat and The Elusive Enigma Machine," he goes into painstaking detail, having researched the story for three years and digging up interviews from both the American and German stories of the tale. The result is a fast-paced, thrilling adventure at sea filled with great...
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