Now It Can Be Told

Now It Can Be Told - Capture Nazi sub U 505 by USS Guadalcanal and escort off Cape Verde Islands Aircraft Carrier USS Guadalcanal - crew lined up on decks. Captain Dan Gallery . May 15th 1944 AVs Atlantic fleet leave on submarine hunt. Destroyers escorts - Pillsbury - Chatelain - Pope - Flaherty - Jenks . Captain’s plan is to capture U-boat intact. Crews train and rehearse. Boarding party introduced - Chief Photographers Mate Clifford Wirral ? checking camera. Chief pharmacist Raymond Jackson in laboratory - Lt. ? - Electrician William Stein - Ens. Medoc - Ens. James Griffin - Engineer Waller - Commander Earl Trosino ? . On board USS Pillsbury - Lt. Albert David. Map showing position of ships off coast of French West Africa. Narration tells how Guadalcanal veers off when Chatelain sounds sub. Chatelain underway - launches depth charge. Two F4F Wildcat fighter planes dive on submarine. Animated map shows planes firing at sub to ct as marker for ships. Destroyer launching depth charges. Crews at battle stations. Wounded U-Boat surfaces in the middle of the task group. Animation shots plane firing on submarine. Ships guns fire on sub. Germans in rubber rafts. Boarding parties into launches. Indistinct shots of boarding party taking over sub. Pillsbury steams towards sub. Sub has been scuttled but is able to be saved (not seen) Sub is out of control and they attempt to stop engines which causes it to sink so they restart at full speed and sub takes off again. German navy prisoners taken aboard Chatelain. POWs given dry clothing and cigarettes. Pillsbury alongside sub and passes line, sub crashes into destroyer holing her, she cuts line and pulls away. The sub must be towed to stay afloat and a destroyer can’t do it so Guadalcanal moves in to take her in tow. Captain directs operations - line taken to sub by whale boat. American sailors on deck and conning tower of sub. Sub under tow flying American flag. Guadalcanal under orders to head for Bermuda. Flight operations continue en route. Prisoners transferred to Guadalcanal. POWs exercised and given salt water shower with hose. Towing to be taken over by fleet tug. During transfer propellers on sub are freed giving power back to sub enabling tanks to be blown out. Sub seen flying US flag with Nazi flag underneath. June 19th U-505 towed into Bermuda harbour.