“One of the best kept secrets of the war was revealed by a recent Navy Department report that, on June 4, 1944, an escort carrier task group hounded a Nazi sub through the waters some 150 miles off the coast of French West Africa near Cape Blanco, forced it to the surface, boarded it, and took the Nazi over. The group then towed their prize, U-505, about 2,500 miles to Bermuda…”
“The capture occurred while the U-boat was returning to her base in Brest after an 80-day commerce-destroying raid in the Gulf of Guinea; the raider was running completely submerged and was in perfect position to attack the carrier when first detected by the sound gear of the Chatelain“.
Today, the U-505 is on public display at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry.
