German U-Boat Captains Laughed at U.S. Destroyers.. Then One Turned a Sea Battle into a Street Fight

In the brutal, five-year-long Battle of the Atlantic, the German U-boat commander was the apex predator, a master of the silent hunt who laughed at the small American destroyer escorts assigned to stop him. He believed the "soft" Americans were no match for his elite "Gray Wolves." He was about to learn a lesson in savage, unpredictable combat that no navy in the world could have prepared him for.
This is the incredible true story of the USS Buckley and the night it turned a naval duel into a bloody, hand-to-hand street fight. When the German submarine U-66 was forced to the surface, its veteran crew was confident they could win a gunfight. They were not prepared for the American captain to violate every rule of naval warfare and ram them at full speed. Trapped and sinking, the arrogant German sailors decided to board and capture the American ship. What they met was not a disciplined navy, but a furious mob.
Discover how the American sailors, with no time to get to their armory, fought back with anything they could grab: scalding hot coffee mugs, heavy codebooks, wrenches, fire axes, and hot, empty shell casings used as baseball bats. This is the story of the most bizarre and brutal close-quarters battle of the Atlantic war, a testament to American ingenuity and the raw fury that proved when the rules go out the window, you win with whatever you've got.







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