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“But after it became apparent that the only damage being done was to the town, the townspeople were pretty bitter about it, some directing their bitterness toward the British, some toward the Germans. Many reasoned that their own country had been defeated and surrendered, and they had a right to be left in peace now. Community life was chaotic and families were often split into factions with lethal designs on each other. Many of the old folks, knowing the best part of their lives was behind them were content to live what was left to them in whatever way was the easiest. They had no further interest in the war, one way or the other, after France collapsed. They knew France was dying and hoped to live out their own lives in peace before she did. The younger generation took sides violently. Some through hatred of the British or for”
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Twenty Million Tons Under the Sea: The Daring Capture of the U-505

“The Germany Navy immediately launched a tremendous U-boat building program which by the end of the war produced a total of 1102 new boats. Production rose from two boats per month in 1939, to over thirty a month in the middle of the war.”
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Daniel V. Gallery,

Twenty Million Tons Under the Sea: The Daring Capture of the U-505

“The balance sheet for U-boats during the whole war can be summarized as follows:. On hand at start: 57 Built: 1102 Sunk: 781 Captured: 1 (U-505) Scuttled: 215 Surrendered: 162 (Incl. U-570) Total: 1159 The personnel losses in the U-boat flotillas were staggering. Out of 40,000 U-boat sailors only 12,000 survived the war. The rest went to the bottom with their boats. On the other side of the ledger, 5,700 Allied ships totaling 23,000,000 tons were sunk and 48,000 merchant seamen went down with them.”
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Daniel V. Gallery,

Twenty Million Tons Under the Sea: The Daring Capture of the U-505

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GALLERY, DANIEL V[INCENT]. (1901-1977). Admiral Daniel V. Gallery, termed a “true original” by his friend Herman Wouk, was a brilliant career naval officer who published widely both during and after his naval duty. A 1920 Naval Academy graduate, Gallery first served on battleships and later volunteered for naval aviation. At the outbreak of World War II, he commanded an Icelandic antisubmarine base; in 1943 he directed the boarding and capture of the German submarine U-505 on the high seas while commanding the antisubmarine carrier Guadalcanal and her task group, the first American capture of an enemy warship on the high seas since the War of 1812.
At the end of the war, while serving in the Pentagon from 1946 to 1949, Gallery began writing. He described the U-505 episode and the Iceland duty in articles for the Saturday Evening Post , he wrote humorous short stories for the Post and other magazines; and he penned several articles on important naval subjects of the day. An official document, the fabled “Gallery Memorandum,” which leaked to the pen of journalist Drew Pearson, played a minor role in the 1949 “revolt of the admirals” about the planned denigration of naval aviation.
Gallery retired from the navy in 1960. His collected short stories, Now Hear This (1965) and Stand By-y-y to Start Engines (1966), were successful enough to encourage Gallery to write two short “epics” about his favorite main character, the best of which was titled Cap’n Fatso (1969). A comic figure without much depth, Fatso nevertheless possesses the ingenuity, bravado, and enlisted “wisdom” to make him an ideal vehicle for Gallery’s wit. Fatso shared with Gallery a deep knowledge of navy prerogatives and a refined ability to get around the regulations.
Noteworthy among Gallery’s other books are his polemic, The Pueblo Incident (1970), and his engaging autobiography, Eight Bells and All’s Well (1965).
Stand By-y-y to Start Engines (1966)
keywords: white, male, World War II, submarines, autobiography
Masthead image from Winslow Homer’s “The Herring Net” (1885) Art Institute of Chicago.

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U-505

Aug 9, 2016

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Rear-Admiral Daniel Vincent Gallery

Admiral Daniel V. Gallery boarded and captured a German U-Boat at sea in June, 1944—the first American officer to so capture an enemy warship since 1815! U-505 is Admiral Gallery’s own story of his extraordinary feat—and also a gripping narrative of the fierce Allied war against the German U-Boat fleet. “EXCELLENT.”—Chicago Tribune “Terrific…the first-hand story of Uncle Sam’s U-Boat killers.”—Chicago Daily News “Brimming with thrills.”—Philadelphia News “An engrossing tale…Pungent, entertaining, informative.”—Navy Times “A humdinger of a sea story…a highly readable book, trimmed from stem to stern with the writer’s irrepressible sense of humor.”—Chicago Sunday Times “Excellent in several ways: it provides a fine quick survey of the whole Atlantic war, it describes the operation of the German U-boat service, and, most dramatically, it tells how an American task force under Admiral Gallery achieved the unique feat of capturing a German submarine.”—Publishers’ Weekly “U-505 IS ONE OF THE WAR’S MOST EXCITING MEMOIRS.”—Chicago News “One of the best non-fiction books about World War II.”—Raleigh News & Observer “A first-rate adventure tale…suspense and excitement told with a seaman’s salty zest…excellent reading.”—Chicago Sunday Tribune “A masterful job that merits the attention of every lover of sea stories.”—Pittsburgh Press

Twenty Million Tons Under the Sea: The Daring Capture of the U-505

May 20, 2019

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Daniel V. Gallery

Daniel Gallery, in his brilliant memoir, explains how he led Task Group 21.12 in the battle against the U-Boat threat. Commanding the USS Guadalcanal he led his crew to sink three of these menacing submarines, but his greatest achievement was to capture the U-505 off the coast of Africa. He was the first American officer to capture an enemy warship since the War of 1812, and this victory gave the United States Navy not only a great victory but also the codebooks, Enigma machine and other secret materials found on board critically assisted the Allied codebreakers. “Excellent in several ways: it provides a fine quick survey of the whole Atlantic war, it describes the operation of the German U-boat service, and, most dramatically, it tells how an American task force under Admiral Gallery achieved the unique feat of capturing a German submarine.” — Publishers’ Weekly

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