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U-505(192 total words in this text)(2628 Reads)  Hinsley, F. H. et al. British Intelligence in the Second World War: Its Influence on Strategy and Operations. vol. 2. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981. [See p.552 for information on codebooks captured on U-505]. Morison, Samuel Eliot. The Atlantic Battle Won: May 1943-May 1945. vol. 10 of History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1960. [For a description of the capture see pp. 290-93. Ratcliff, R. A. "Searching for Security: The German Investigations into Enigma's Security" Intelligence and National Security 14, no.1 (Spring 1999): 146-167. [See p.156 for information on codebooks captured on U-505.]. Unpublished Original Documents: Microfilm reel NRS 202 for Task Group 22.3 report of 19 June 1944 which contains the reports of the participating ships and aircraft; USS Guadalcanal, Escort Division FOUR, USS Chatelain, USS Pillsbury, USS Pope, USS Flaherty, USS Jenks, and Composite Squadron EIGHT (VC-8). Microfilm reel NRS 1974-35 for papers taken from U-505. |
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Confederate General Joseph Johnston officially surrenders his army to General William T. Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina.
1865: John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. 1865: Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Sherman. 1937: The ancient Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes. 1952: Armistice negotiations are resumed. 1971: The U.S. command in Saigon announces that the U.S. force level in Vietnam is 281,400 men, the lowest since July 1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |
