This is a battle for the movie screen! The battle between USS Buckley (DE-51) and U-66 on May 6, 1944, was one of the most intense and unusual naval engagements of World War II. It took place in the mid-Atlantic, about 500 miles off the coast of Cape Verde, and resulted in a rare hand-to-hand combat scenario between an American warship and a German U-boat. USS Buckley, a Buckley-class destroyer escort, was part of Task Group 21.11, a hunter-killer group assigned to track and destroy German U-boa

#OTD in 1962, the decommissioned Buckley-class destroyer escort USS Ira Jeffery (DE-63/APD-44) was sunk as a target by the Balao-class submarine USS Sennet (SS-408) using Mark 16 torpedoes. | U.S. Naval Institute

À l'Abordage ! La Bataille Épique de l'USS Buckley contre l'U-66 | Direct Monde Afrique

German U-Boat Captains Were Shocked by America's Hunter-Killer Groups