the U-505 was one of the German navy's Type IX-class submarines, a long-range attack boat developed with longer dive times and agility compared to its predecessors. Given the Kriegsmarine's ...

In 1944, a US Navy task group hunted a Nazi U-boat in a top-secret operation that was only made public after the war ended, marking the first time the service captured an enemy vessel since 1812. The ...

On June 4 1944 Captain Daniel Gallery and his men of the US Naval Task Force 223 did the nearly impossible they captured a German Uboat It was the first enemy vesselofwar captured in battle on the ...