U-505 Secret Capture

On June 4, 1944, Task Group 22.3 secretly captured the German submarine U-505 for the US Navy. Despite the crew's attempts to scuttle it, an 8-man boarding party rushed inside and kept the submarine afloat, towing it 3,150 km back to Bermuda. The capture of the ship was kept secret until after the war.

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