U-505 Magazine Article 1945 | U-505 Captured in the South Atlantic 1944
1945, Our Navy Magazine, Submarines

The Capture of U-505
(Our Navy Magazine, 1945)

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“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…”