Download or read book The German Kriegsmarine UNTERSEEBOOT U BOAT And The Capture Of The U 505 In Text And Photographs written by Jeffrey Jones and published by Jeffrey Frank Jones. This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTENTS By CHAPTER: Capture of U-505 on 4 June 1944 German Navy U-Boat (Submarine) Headquarters War Logs From World War II in the Collection of the Navy Department Library Recollections of Captain Daniel V. Gallery, USN, Concerning the Capture of German Submarine U-505 U-505 Photographs German Submarine Crew Training During Construction, Outfitting, and Commissioning of U-boats: Document Captured on U-505 U-505 Personal Diary - Anonymous author, possibly Oberfunkmaat (Signalman First Class) Gottfried Fischer Radio Documents Captured on German Submarine U-505 U-505 Red Notebook German Submarine U-106 Engineering Section War Diary Captured on U-505 U-107 Engineering Section War Diary Captured on U-505 U-138 Engineering Section War Diary Captured on U-505 Wehrmacht [German Armed Forces] Reports Captured on U-505 Glossary of German Terminology in Engineering Documents Captured on U-505

Download or read book The Story of the U 505 written by Daniel V. Gallery and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Steel Boat Iron Hearts written by Hans Goebeler and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2005-01-19 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the German submarine U-505 and its dramatic capture by the US Navy during WWII—told by one of its crewmen. Hans Goebeler is known as the man who “pulled the plug” on U-505 in 1944 to keep his beloved U-boat out of Allied hands. Steel Boat, Iron Hearts is his no-holds-barred account of service aboard a combat U-boat. It is the only full-length memoir of its kind, and Goebeler was aboard for every one of U-505’s war patrols. Using his own experiences, log books, and correspondence with other U-boat crewmen, Goebeler offers rich and very personal details about what life was like in the German Navy under Hitler. Because his first and last posting was to U-505, Goebeler’s perspective of the crew, commanders, and war patrols paints a vivid and complete portrait unlike any other to come out of the Kriegsmarine. He witnessed it all: from deadly sabotage efforts that almost sunk the boat to the tragic suicide of the only U-boat commander who took his life during WWII; from the terror and exhilaration of hunting the enemy to the seedy brothels of France. The vivid, honest, and smooth-flowing prose calls it like it was and pulls no punches. U-505 was captured by Captain Dan Gallery’s Guadalcanal Task Group 22.3 on June 4, 1944. Trapped by this “Hunter-Killer” group, U-505 was depth-charged to the surface, strafed by machine gun fire, and boarded. It was the first enemy ship captured at sea since the War of 1812. Today, hundreds of thousands of visitors tour U-505 each year at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. Includes photos and a special Introduction by Keith Gill, Curator of U-505, Museum of Science and Industry

Download or read book Hunt and Kill written by Theodore P. Savas and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2004-06-19 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of WWII's pivotal events was the capture of U-505 on June 4, 1944. The top secret seizure of this massive Type IX submarine provided the Allies with priceless information on German technology and innovation. After the war U-505 was transported to Chicago, where today 1,000,000 visitors a year pass through her at the Museum of Science and Industry. Hunt and Kill offers the first definitive study of U-505. The chapters cover her construction, crew and commanders, combat history, general Type IX operations, naval intelligence, the eight fatal German mistakes that doomed the boat, and her capture, transportation, and restoration for posterity. The contributors to this fascinating volume--a Who's Who of U-boat historians--include: Erich Topp (U-Boat Ace, commander of U-552); Eric Rust (Naval Officers Under Hitler); Timothy Mulligan (Neither Sharks Nor Wolves); Jak Mallman Showell (Hitler's U-boat Bases); Jordan Vause (Wolf); Lawrence Patterson (First U-boat Flotilla); Mark Wise (Enigma and the Battle of the Atlantic); Keith Gill (Curator, Museum of Science and Industry), and Theodore Savas (Silent Hunters; Nazi Millionaries).

Download or read book We Captured a U boat Etc An Account of the Capture of the German Submarine U 505 by the U S Navy in 1944 Off the West Coast of Africa With Plates Including Portraits and a Map written by Daniel Vincent Gallery and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book World War II German U boat Documents Manuals Diaries written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 375 pages of documents and their translations captured from German Unterseeboot 505 (U-505), copied from material held at the United States Navy Department Library, archived on CD-ROM. The disc contains 200 pages of images of documents, from and covering German U-boats and 175 pages of English translations of the German language documents.

Download or read book Count Not the Dead written by Michael L. Hadley and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1995 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basing his study on literature and film, the author presents the exploits and images of U-boats and their intrepid crews.

Download or read book Hitler s U boat War The hunted 1942 1945 written by Clay Blair and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1996 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of Clay Blair's magisterial, highly praised narrative history of the German submarine war against Allied shipping in World War II, The Hunters, 1939-1942, described the Battle of the Atlantic waged first against the British Empire and then against the Americas. This second and concluding volume, The Hunted, 1942-1945, covers the period when the fortunes of the German Navy were completely reversed, and it suffered perhaps the most devastating defeat of any of the German forces. In unprecedented detail and drawing on sources never used before, Clay Blair continues the dramatic and authoritative story of the failures and fortunes of the German U-boat campaign against the United States and Great Britain. All the major patrols and sorties made by the Germans are described in detail and with considerable human interest: the Peleus and Laconia affairs; the capture at sea of U-505; the crisis of German command; the futile operations against the Americas; and the mounting and devastating losses that, in effect, entirely destroyed the German submarine service. Amid the riveting accounts of battles at sea in Volume I, military historian Blair, who served on an American submarine in the Pacific against Japan, postulates that the German U-boat peril in the Atlantic has been "vastly overblown" in previously published histories and memoirs of that naval struggle, as well as in films. As a consequence, Blair writes, a false mythology about the effectiveness of U-boats has taken root, and in order to clearly and fully understand World War II, one must put the U-boat threat into proper perspective. Although neither volume is intended to be "technical" in nature, Blair does not neglect the scientific developments of the U-boat war. These include radar and radar detectors, active and passive sonar, Axis encoding machines and exotic Allied decoding machines, high-frequency direction finding (Huff Duff), Hedgehogs, depth charges, and sophisticated U-boat torpedoes. He describes how these devices worked and how they influenced the course of the naval battle. The remarkable story of Hitler's U-Boat War has been one of the last World War II subjects without a conclusive treatment. Now, thanks to Clay Blair, this has been brilliantly remedied.

Download or read book Twenty Million Tons Under the Sea written by Daniel V. Gallery and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 1944, U.S. Navy Task Group 22.3, a "hunter-killer" force commanded by Daniel Gallery to track down German submarines, boarded and captured U-505 off the coast of Africa. It was the first time that an enemy ship of war had been captured on the high seas by U.S. Navy sailors since 1815, when the USS Peacock seized HMS Nautilus as part of the War of 1812. The extraordinary feat is described in gripping narrative by Gallery himself, who chronicles the long and arduous battle against the German U-boat under the most hazardous conditions. Once they succeeded in capturing and towing their prize seventeen-hundred miles across the Atlantic Ocean, U-505 proved to be of inestimable value, yielding secrets to radio codes among other things. U-505 is now on exhibit at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.

Download or read book U 505 Personal Diary written by Oberfunkmatt Gottfried Fischer and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 4 June 1944, a hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captured the German submarine U-505. This diary was seized from the submarine. The author of the document is most likely Oberfunkmaat (Signalman First Class) Gottfried Fischer -- the only U-505 sailor killed during the battle leading to the capture of the submarine. This identification is based upon an entry of 7 May 1944 in which the author refers to himself as the leading radio man (see diary page 10). At that time, the leading radio man aboard U-505 was Fischer.

Download or read book Seizing the Enigma written by David Kahn and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Atlantic in World War II is the setting for the race to break the German U-boat codes and turn the tides of war by the losing British and American navys.

Download or read book U Boat War Patrol written by Lawrence Paterson and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] book of rare photographs . . . detailing life aboard a German Second World War submarine” from the author of Operation Colossus (History Today). This unique account charts the complete story of a single U-boat patrol through the summer of 1942 based around a remarkable collection of photographs that were “liberated” from a concrete U-boat pen in Brest at the end of the war and which had, until recently, remained hidden in a shoe box. The boat in question, U-564, carried the famous three black cat motif of Reinhard “Teddy” Suhren who, along with Prien and Kretschmer, was one of the top U-boat commanders during the battles of the Atlantic. This remarkable book provides unique access into both the day-to-day life of a U-boat at sea and into the detailed workings of the Kriegsmarine. Through the successes and trials of U-564 the reader is transported to that vast and watery battlefield that was perhaps the most significant theatre of the Second World War. “The text tells the story of U 564, and the images display the cramped conditions and the way of life on a war patrol. This is an absorbing story with the most memorable and unique collection of images filmed under patrol conditions.” —Firetrench

Download or read book Kriegsmarine U boats 1939 45 1 written by Gordon Williamson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-20 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This, the first of two volumes on Germany's World War II U-boats, traces their development from the early U-boats of the Kaiser's Navy, the prohibition on Germany having U-boats following the Armistice in 1918 and the subsequent Treaty of Versailles, the secret development of U-boats using a 'cover-firm' in Holland, culminating in the formation of the 1st U-boat Flotilla in 1935 with the modern Type II. The operational history section includes examples from the Classes Type VIIA, Type VIIB, VIID, VIIE and VIIF before concentrating on the mainstay of the U-boat arm, the Type VIIC. Comparisons are also made with the standard allied submarines, their strengths, weaknesses and U-boat tactics.

Download or read book U 505 Personal Diary written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 4 June 1944, a hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captured the German submarine U-505. This diary was seized from the submarine. The author of the document is most likely Oberfunkmaat (Signalman First Class) Gottfried Fischer -- the only U-505 sailor killed during the battle leading to the capture of the submarine. This identification is based upon an entry of 7 May 1944 in which the author refers to himself as the leading radio man (see diary page 10). At that time, the leading radio man aboard U-505 was Fischer.

Download or read book Captured U Boats written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: French submarine Laubie (S610), German submarine U-1105, German submarine U-110 (1940), German submarine U-1230, German submarine U-219, German submarine U-2513, German submarine U-3008, German submarine U-3 (1935), German submarine U-505, German submarine U-510, German submarine U-530, German submarine U-862, German submarine U-977, HMS Graph, Roland Morillot (S613). Excerpt: HMS Graph (pennant number P715) was a German Type VIIC U-boat used by the British Royal Navy during World War II. Commissioned as the U-570 in the German Kriegsmarine in mid-1941, she was attacked and captured on her first patrol. She provided both the Royal Navy and United States Navy with significant information on German submarines, and carried out three combat patrols with a Royal Navy crew, becoming the only U-boat to see active service with both sides during the war. She was withdrawn from service in 1944 due to problems maintaining her. While being towed to the breakers for scrapping, she ran aground on an island off the west coast of Scotland. Some of the wreck was removed as scrap but some wreckage remains there to the present day. The submarine was built to the German Type VIIC design. She had a displacement of 769 tonnes (757 long tons) when surfaced, and 871 t (857 long tons) when submerged. The boat was 67.1 metres (220 ft 2 in) long, with a beam of 6.2 metres (20 ft 4 in), and a draught of 4.74 metres (15 ft 7 in). The diesel-electric propulsion system provided a maximum speed of 18.8 knots (34.8 km/h; 21.6 mph) surfaced or 7.6 knots (14.1 km/h; 8.7 mph) submerged. The U-570 had a fuel capacity of 109 long tons (111 t) which gave a range of 7,500 nautical miles (13,900 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph). The test depth of the submarine was 230 metres (750 ft). The main armament consisted of five 21 inches (533 mm) torpedo tubes;...

Download or read book German U Boat Losses During World War II written by Axel Niestlé and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deep dive into the fate of German submarines lost during the Second World War. “This has to be the best reference you can find on the subject.”—Military Modelling No other publication on this subject comes even close to including the amount of detail provided in this book. An introduction both summarizes previous works on the subject and describes the difficulties of obtaining and verifying information from either the Germans or the Allies on U-boat losses. The main part of the book lists by hull number each U-boat’s date of commissioning, its commanding officer, and the date and port of departure for its last patrol. It also gives the date, position, and cause of loss of each submarine, with complete details on Allied units involved in the sinking, the names and ranks of their commanding officers and pilots, and the number of crew killed or rescued. An appendix neatly summarizes data on the disposition of surviving U-boats at the end of the war and provides valuable statistical data on German U-boat losses. “Highly recommended for every serious scholar of the Atlantic war, and every library in naval history and the history of the Second World War.”—The Mariner’s Mirror “The level of detail is quite impressive and this edition is the result of 16 years of further research since the first edition . . . If you are seeking data on the fate of U-Boats then this book should be your ‘first place of call’—no other book has such detailed data.”—Military Archive Research

Download or read book Hitler s Attack U Boats written by Jak P. Mallmann Showell and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A definitive introduction by a highly recognized authority who writes beautifully and clearly.” —Naval Historical Foundation The fact that German submarines almost managed to cut off Britain’s vital imports during the First World War hadn’t been forgotten by Hitler—and when, in 1935, he repudiated the Treaty of Versailles, Britain, magnanimously, signed an Anglo-German Naval Agreement. This allowed the Germans to build their submarine strength up to one third of the Royal Navy’s tonnage. When war broke out in 1939, German U-boats went quickly into action, but with only four years of production and development, the main armament of these submarines was considerably weaker than equivalent boats in other navies and many other features, such as living conditions, were also significantly inferior. Yet, the German U-boat onslaught against British merchant ships in autumn 1940 was highly successful because the attacks were made on the surface at night and from such close range that a single torpedo would sink a ship. Soon, though, Allied technology was able to detect U-boats at night, and new convoy techniques, combined with powerfully armed, fast modern aircraft searching the seas, meant that by 1941 it was clear that Germany was losing the war at sea. Something had to be done. The new generation of attack U-boats that had been introduced since Hitler came to power needed urgent improvement. This is the story of the Types II, VII, and IX that had already become the ‘workhorse’ of the Kriegsmarine’s submarine fleet and continued to put out to sea to attack Allied shipping right up to the end of the war. The Type II was a small coastal boat that struggled to reach the Atlantic; the Type VII was perfectly at home there, but lacked the technology to tackle well protected convoys; while the Type IX was a long-range variety modified so it could operate in the Indian Ocean. This book by the renowned Kriegsmarine historian explores these attack U-boats at length, including details of their armament, capabilities, and crew facilities; the story of their development and operational history; and just what it was like to operate such a vessel.