# CAPTURE OF GERMAN U-BOAT U-505 BY U.S. NAVY TASK FORCE "NOW IT CAN BE TOLD" 21024

This film NOW IT CAN BE TOLD tells an astonishing story, one of the most interesting U.S. Navy actions of WWII. On June 4, 1944, an American anti-submarine squadron accomplished an incredible feat, capturing the German U-boat U-505 and all hands. This film celebrates the achievement and explains how it happened. It certainly wasn't a fluke. Commander Daniel Gallery, of the USS Guadalcanal, was convinced he could surface and capture an enemy submarine, and he drilled his crews in the art of boarding. When the aircraft carrier USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60) and its destroyer escorts, USS Pillsbury (DE-133), USS Pope (DE-134), USS Flaherty (DE-135), USS Chatelain (DE-149) and USS Jenks (DE-665), got a contact, they worked in close concert to achieve the capture. German submarine commander Harald Lange and his crew were neatly captured, and their boat towed to Bermuda. Today this Type IXC U-boat rests in the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, a nice war prize delivered in style by the U.S. Navy. A bit more on this ... Ultra intelligence from decrypted German cipher messages had informed the Allies that U-boats were operating near Cape Verde. The Navy dispatched Task Group 22.3, a "Hunter-Killer" group to the area. At 11:09 on 4 June 1944, TG 22.3 made sonar contact with U-505 off the coast of Río de Oro. The sonar contact was only 800 yards (700 m) away off Chatelain's starboard bow. Chatelain was so close to U-505 that depth charges would not sink fast enough to intercept…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/21024USNavyNowItCanBeTold)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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