A World War Two Secret
by Beverly Larson Christensen
"Glenn P. Larson and the U-505"
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A World War Two Secret Book Details
War:
World War II
Perspective:
Submarines
Military Unit:
US Navy
True Story:
Yes
Biography:
No
Region:
Europe
Page Count:
164
Published Date:
2022
ISBN13:
9781954163317
A World War Two Secret Book Description
War changes everyone. In July 1944, 900 men stood in formation as U.S. Navy Captain Daniel V. Gallery ordered everyone on the USS Guadalcanal to keep their recent event a secret. They could tell no one, but no one, about what had just happened on this cruise-not even wives, parents, or siblings. Gallery instructed the commanders of the five destroyer escorts to also notify the 1,000 men on their ships in this Anti-submarine Warfare Task Group with the same warning. A young North Dakota farm boy, Glenn Peter Larson, of Regent, was among those bursting with the best story of his life, but he and the rest kept the secret until Germany surrendered in 1945. This is their amazing story...