USS Buckley's INSANE Fight with U-66
Buy my book here: https://a.co/d/0fIpWMfH Support my channel on Patreon: / hiddenhistoryyt Thanks for watching, remember to like & subscribe! USS Buckley (DE-51) was a Buckley-class destroyer escort commissioned in April 1943, and on the night of May 6, 1944, in the central Atlantic, she fought one of the strangest single-ship actions of the entire war. Operating with the escort carrier USS Block Island, she ran down U-66, a Type IXC commanded by Korvettenkapitän Gerhard Seehausen, after hours of tracking. Buckley closed at full speed and rammed. The two ships locked together. German submariners began scrambling out of the conning tower and trying to climb aboard the American escort. Buckley's crew met them on deck with .50-caliber machine guns, M1 rifles, .45 pistols, hand grenades, and reportedly heavy coffee mugs and shell casings hurled by hand. Several Germans were killed on Buckley's deck, others captured. The ships separated. Buckley rammed again. U-66 finally sank. 36 Germans survived, 24 were killed. Buckley took no fatal casualties. If you feel that this content in some way infringes on your own content please reach out to [email protected]
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