Скачать или смотреть The Trick That Forced This German Sub to Surface — What the US Found Was Classified for 50 Years

June 4, 1944. American warships surround a Nazi submarine in the Atlantic. The U-boat surfaces, damaged and sinking. But instead of destroying it, Captain Daniel Gallery orders something unprecedented: board it. Capture it alive. What happens next becomes one of the most closely guarded secrets of World War II.
Lieutenant Junior Grade Albert David leads an eight-man team onto U-505 — a flooding, booby-trapped enemy warship that could sink or explode at any moment. Inside the darkness, they discover something far more valuable than the submarine itself: Enigma cipher machines and 900 pounds of top-secret German naval codes.
This is the story of the only German U-boat captured by the United States Navy during World War II. For decades, the mission remained classified. The prisoners were isolated. The submarine vanished. Even the men who risked their lives couldn't tell their families what they'd done.
This 32-minute documentary reveals the full story: the impossible boarding, the race against time, the intelligence coup that helped win the war, and the human cost of secrets too dangerous to reveal.
🎖️ Based on declassified naval records and historical accounts
⚓ Featuring the capture that changed the Battle of the Atlantic
🔐 The secret that remained hidden for 50 years

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - The Impossible Decision
2:15 - The Battle of the Atlantic: Why Capturing a U-Boat Mattered
4:45 - Captain Gallery's Obsession
6:30 - The First Attempt: U-515 Slips Away
8:00 - Training for the Impossible Mission
10:15 - June 4, 1944: Contact
12:30 - The Depth Charge Attack
14:45 - U-505 Surfaces
16:20 - The Boarding Party Launches
18:00 - Inside the Sinking Submarine
20:15 - Finding the Enigma Machines
22:45 - The Race to Save U-505
25:00 - Total Secrecy: Making a Submarine Disappear
27:30 - The Intelligence Victory
29:15 - The Cost of Silence
31:00 - U-505 Today: The Submarine That Shouldn't Exist
32:00 - Final Thoughts

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United States Naval Institute (1944-1945). Proceedings: Articles on Anti-Submarine Warfare and Hunter-Killer Operations. U.S. Naval Institute, Annapolis, MD.

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