Treasure Trove: The Navy Won Big By Capturing This Nazi Submarine
The intelligence materials taken from U-505 allowed Allied Naval Intelligence to read U-boat signals as fast as the Germans themselves.
Here s What You Need to Remember: Fortunately, no word ever reached German intelligence. Gallery told all hands attached to the task group that nothing must be said about what happened during the cruise, and amazingly the men did as they were told. The public did not find out about U-505 until after the war.
“Frenchy to Blue Jay I have a possible sound contact,” squawked from USS
Guadalcanal’s bridge intercom at 1110 hours. It meant that “Frenchy,” codename for the Destroyer Escort USS
“Frenchy to Blue Jay I have a possible sound contact,” squawked from USS
Guadalcanal’s bridge intercom at 1110 hours. It meant that “Frenchy,” codename for the Destroyer Escort USS
Chatelain, had located something during a sonar sweep.
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But Captain Daniel V. Gallery, commander of the escort carrier
Guadalcanal (BlueJay) was not going to get excited, at least not yet. The sound contact could be a whale, a layer of cold water, or any number of other things. On the other hand, a “possible” was always treated like the real thing until found out to be otherwise.