CGC Spencer vs. U-175, 1943
Official Caption: "OFF TO RESCUE THEIR BEATEN FOES: A pulling boat leaves the side of a Coast Guard combat cutter to rescue Nazi seamen struggling in the mid-Atlantic after their U-Boat had been blasted to the bottom by the cutter's depth charges. Two Coast Guard cutters brought 41 German survivors to a Scottish port." Date: 17 April 1943; Photo No.: 1516 Photographer: Jack January Description: The men in this pulling boat were in fact a trained boarding team led by LCDR John B. Oren (standing in the stern and wearing the OD helmet) and LT Ross Bullard (directly to Oren's left). With the assistance of the Royal Navy while in Londonderry they had practiced boarding a submarine at sea to capture an Enigma coding machine and related intelligence material. They were forced to take the pulling lifeboat when the Spencer's motor lifeboat was damaged by friendly fire.

Photo by: USCG Historian's Office (& NARA) |  VIRIN: 240621-G-G0000-004.JPG