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What famous anti submarine group exploit was carried out under the leadership of Captain Dan Gallery in June 1944?
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Captain Daniel V. Gallery, then Commanding Officer of the USS Guadalcanal, and Commander of Task Group 22.3, was responsible for the capture of the German U-Boat U-505 intact off the coast of West Africa on June 4, 1944, just 2 days before the Normandy Invasion.
Gallery took the initiative in the attempt to recover the U-505's Enigma machine and codebooks, but a little known fact is that he was nearly court-martialed for doing so. Unbeknown to him, the Navy and Allied Commanders had kept the fact that the HMS Bulldog had already captured an Enigma following her engagement with the German U-110 in 1941, along with her codebooks. The Allies had been secretly reading German Enigma communications for years, being both instrumental in the defeat of U-Boat operations in the North Atlantic as well as one of the most closely guarded secrets of the war. The Germans felt that the Enigma code was unbreakable - if the slightest hint that one of their U-Boats had been captured had been leaked, they would have immediately changed their coding system. During the beginning of WWII, the Allied inability to read German Enigma messages was a huge and costly liability.
However, it was found that the codebooks recovered allowed the Allies to read a special coordinate cipher, which in Navy terms means he was off the hook. In the end, he was commended for his actions along with the rest of the Task Group. A Presidential Unit Citation, Medal of Honor (awarded to Lt(jg) Albert David, the officer who lead the boarders), Navy Crosses and other awards were among those given to sailors involved in the capture.
This operation was also the first use of the Navy term "Boarders Away!" since the 19th Century.
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What famous antisubmarine group exploit was carried out under the leadership of captain dan gallery in June 1944?
Captain Dan Gallery's group encountered u-boat U505 off the coast of Africa, and following disabling it from diving, took control of it. It was the first ship captured in battle on the high seas by the U.S. Navy since the War of 1812.
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