On May 6th, 1944 destroyer escort USS Buckley was steaming at full speed to fight a German U-66 submarine. An American patrol plane found her by radar and sent coordinates to the US Navy hunter-killer group. The USS Buckley found the submarine and engaged it in combat. A hard battle ensued where the submarine was rammed and the fight spilled into hand-to-hand combat on the American ship. In this fight captain of the USS Buckley was forced to issue a command not heard in the US Navy for decades. “Stand by to repel boarders!”
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00:00 U-boat U-66
00:50 Cpt. Brent Abel receives a transmission
02:04 Lt. Sellars spots a U-boat
03:53 USS Buckley starts the hunt
04:40 The destroyer escort is spotted
06:28 U-66 starts shooting
06:47 U-66 is hit by enemy fire
07:38 Cpt. Abel: “Check fire”
09:27 The submarine fires a torpedo
10:41 Ram it!
11:35 Germans board USS Buckley
12:26 The end of U-66
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