| Task
Group |
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Operations |
Date |
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1944 |
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| TG 22.3 |
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Dep Norfolk, VA for
Casablanca (for ASW operations) |
15 May |
| 3rd ASW Cruise |
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Note: TG refueled at
sea |
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Arrv Bermuda (for replenishment) |
19 Jun |
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Rtn Norfolk (for repairs
and alterations) |
22 Jun |
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| Units:
USS Guadalcanal, VC-8, USS Pillsbury (DE-133) , USS Pope
(DE-134), USS Flaherty (DE-135), USS Chatelain (DE-149), USS Jenks
(DE-665), Destroyer Division 4 in USS Pillsbury |
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| Results:
U-505 captured, 4 Jun 44 |
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| Click
here to proceed to the U-505 pages at the U-boat Archive website |
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USS
Guadalcanal leaves Norfolk on her third ASW cruise, 15 May 1944 |
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USS
Jenks refueling astern of USS Guadalcanal, 23 May 1944 |
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USS
Pillsbury's boarding party approaches U-505, 4 June 1944
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USS
Pillsbury moves alongside U-505 to take the captured submarine
in tow, 4 June 1944. USS Pillsbury was severly damaged when U-505's
bowplane sliced open the DE's hull. |
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USS
Guadalcanl boarding parties working to keep U-505 afloat, 4 June
1944 |
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Guadalcanal's
boarding parties work to attach a towline to U-505, 4 June 1944 |
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USS
Chatelain prepares to transfer POWs to USS Guadalcanal by motor
whaleboat, 4 June 1944 |
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CAPT
Gallery and LT Davis, Officer-in-Charge of the USS Pillsbury's
boarding party (Medal of Honor awardee) on USS Guadalcanal's bridge,
4 June 1944 |
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An
Avenger lands with U-505 in tow, 5 June 1944 |
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U-505
crewmen cool off in the catwalk |
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CAPT
Gallery and CDR Johnson, USS Guadalcanal's Executive Officer,
on the bridge with Nazi flags representing action against U-544,
U-68, U-515, U-170 (damaged) and U-505, 6 June 1944 |
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Tow
of U-505 is passed from USS Guadalcanal to USS Abnaki (ATF-96),
7 June 1944 |
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USS
Pillsbury refueling from USS Kennebec (AO-36), 7 June 1944 |
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VC-8
Officers on the flight deck of the USS Guadalcanal, 21 June 1944 |
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VC-8
Enlisted flight crew on the flight deck of the USS Guadalcanal,
21 June 1944 |
