Captain Daniel Gallery, commanding an antisubmarine task group in the Atlantic, wanted to capture a German U-boat. This is the story. Author Charles Lachman wrote a rollicking tale with phrases like “the sudden noise scares the daylights out of everyone” and “he still has his draft card—from World War I.”
The way it reads like fiction, I wondered if some of it was. One officer had been on the “aircraft carrier USS Long Island as an engineering officer. He participates in in historic events: the Battle of Midway.” Everyone knows the carriers at Midway were the Enterprise, Yorktown, and Hornet. I googled Long Island. It was an escort carrier guarding the west coast during the battle. I googled many things, and they checked out.
The capture of U-505 was perilous, both during the seizure and afterwards in keeping it secret. This is fascinating reading.

I enjoyed going on the hunt for this Nazi U-Boat in this book. It was well researched and written, it had the elements that I was hoping for and enjoyed the idea of this. It uses the historical feel to it and glad I got to read this. Charles Lachman has a great writing style for this type of book.