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Daniel Vincent Gallery (July 10, 1901 – January 16, 1977) was a
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in the
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. He saw extensive action during
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, fighting
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s during the
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, where his most notable achievement was the June 4, 1944 capture of the . After the war, Gallery was a prolific author of fiction and non-fiction. During the post-war military cutbacks, he wrote a series of articles criticizing the heavy reductions being made to the US Navy. These articles placed him at odds with the administration during the episode which became known as the
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.


Early life and career

Daniel was the son of Daniel Vincent Gallery (born Chicago, July 19, 1865), lawyer, and
Mary Onahan Gallery Mary Onahan Gallery (, Onahan, known as Molly; July 22, 1866 – January 12, 1941) was an American writer, critic and editor. She primarily wrote articles for newspapers and magazines. Gallary was also the mother of three rear admirals in the U. ...
, writer. In 1917, at the age of 16, Gallery entered the
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at
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. He graduated a year early, in 1920, and competed in the
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in
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on the U.S. wrestling team.Short Biography from Arlington National Cemetery
/ref> He had three younger brothers, all of whom had careers in the U.S. Navy. Two brothers, William O. Gallery and
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, also rose to the rank of rear admiral. The fourth brother, John Ireland Gallery, was a
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priest and Navy
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. Their grandfather Daniel, born about 1839, emigrated to the U.S. from
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, in the mid- to late- 1800s. Gallery was an early
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. He flew seaplanes,
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s and amphibians. In the late 1930s, he won at the
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in a race-tuned
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torpedo plane. In 1941, while the U.S. was still neutral, he was assigned as the Naval
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at the U.S. Embassy in
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. While in Britain, he earned his flight pay by ferrying
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s from the factory to
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aerodromes. He liked to claim that he was the only U.S. Navy aviator who flew Spitfires during the
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, but they were unarmed.


World War II

In 1942, Gallery took command of the Fleet Air Base in
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, where he was awarded the
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for his actions against German submarines. It was there that he conceived his plan to capture a
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. In 1943, Gallery was named captain of the
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, which he commissioned. In January 1944, he commanded antisubmarine Task Group 21.12 (TG 21.12) out of
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, with ''Guadalcanal'' as the flagship. TG 21.12 sank the . In March 1944, Task Group 22.3 was formed with ''Guadalcanal'' as the flagship. On this cruise, Gallery pioneered 24-hour flight operations from escort carriers in order to hunt U-boats, which had begun remaining submerged during daylight to avoid carrier-based aircraft. On April 9, the task group sank , commanded by U-boat ace ''
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''
Werner Henke Werner Henke (13 May 1909 – 15 June 1944) was the commander of in the Battle of the Atlantic of World War II. ''U-515'' was sunk by the US task group 22.3, commanded by Daniel V. Gallery on 9 April 1944 and Henke was captured along with about ...
. After prolonged depth charging, the submarine was forced to the surface among the attacking ships and the surviving crew abandoned ship. The deserted ''U-515'' was hammered by rockets and gunfire before she finally sank. Gallery saw that this would have been a perfect opportunity to capture the vessel. He decided to be ready the next time such an opportunity presented itself. The next night, aircraft from the task group caught on the surface, in broad moonlight, and sank her with one survivor, a lookout caught on-deck when the U-boat crash dived.


U-505

On the next cruise of TG 22.3, Gallery took the unusual step of forming boarding parties, in case of another chance to capture a U-boat arose. On June 4, 1944, the task group crossed paths with ''U-505'' off the coast of
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. ''U-505'' was spotted running on the surface by two
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fighters from ''Guadalcanal''. Her captain, ''
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'' Harald Lange, dived the boat to avoid the fighters. But they could see the submerged submarine and vectored destroyers onto her track. The experienced antisubmarine warfare team laid down patterns of
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that shook ''U-505'' up badly, popping relief valves and breaking gaskets, resulting in water sprays in her engine room. Based on reports from the engine room, the captain believed his boat to be heavily damaged and ordered the crew to abandon ship, which was done so hastily that full
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measures were not completed. Gallery ordered the boarding party from the
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to board the foundering submarine and if possible capture her. The destroyers in range used their .50 caliber and 20 mm antiaircraft guns to chase the Germans off the vessel so the boarding party could get onto her. Once on board, the party replaced the cover of the sea strainer, thus keeping the U-boat from sinking immediately. The boarders retrieved the submarine's
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coding machine and code books. (This was a primary goal of the mission because it would enable the codebreakers in
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to read German signals immediately, without having to break the codes). They got her under control, and ''U-505'' became the first foreign
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captured in battle on the high seas by the U.S. Navy since the
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. This incident was the last time that the order "Away All Boarders!" was given by a U.S. Navy captain.
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, who led the boarding party, received the
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for his courage in boarding a foundering submarine that presumably had scuttling charges set to explode – the only Medal of Honor awarded in the Atlantic Fleet during World War II. For capturing ''U-505'', Task Group 22.3 was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation and Gallery received the
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. He also received a blistering dressing-down from Admiral
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,
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. King pointed out that unless ''U-505''s capture could be kept an absolute secret, the Germans would change their codes and change out the cipher wheels in the Enigma. Gallery managed to impress his crews with the vital importance of maintaining silence on the best
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any of them would ever see. His success kept him from getting a court-martial instead of a medal. (Two noted naval historians,
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and Clay Blair, Jr., take opposite views of Gallery's case. Morison saw it as an intrepid act of combat valor in the finest Navy tradition; Blair sided with Admiral King and called it an act of lunacy which could have undone all the work done by the codebreakers on both sides of the Atlantic.) After the war, King personally approved the award of the Presidential Unit Citation to Task Group 22.3 for the capture of the U-boat.


Later war

Gallery was given command of the aircraft carrier in September 1945. He relinquished command of ''Hancock'' on 10 December 1945.


Post-World War II service

After promotion to
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, Gallery became Assistant to the
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. He commanded Carrier Division Six during the
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.


The "Revolt of the Admirals"

The "
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" occurred during Louis Johnson's tenure as
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. Johnson planned to scrap the carrier fleet, merge the Marine Corps into the Army, and reduce the Navy to a convoy-escort force. Gallery wrote a series of articles for ''
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'' fiercely criticizing these plans. The final article, "Don't Let Them Scuttle the Navy!" was so inflammatory that Gallery barely escaped court-martial for insubordination. It cost Gallery his third star. It effectively finished his career, though he served 12 more years on active duty. At the time of his retirement, he was second in seniority on the Rear Admirals' List.


Command of the Tenth Naval District

Gallery's final command was the Tenth Naval District in
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, from December 1956 to July 1960. During this command, with the help of the Rotary and
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clubs, he established the first
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. He was so taken by the sound that he invested $120 in steel drums for his command's Navy band. He established the first all-American and the only military steel band in 1957. The Tenth Naval District Steel Band – or Admiral Dan's Pandemoniacs, as they called themselves – became the U.S. Navy Steel Band and toured the world as ambassadors of the U.S. Navy until 1999. Gallery was forced to retire from the Navy in 1960 when he was found medically unfit for service. Shortly before Gallery's retirement, the custom of "
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" was abolished. So he was one of the few rear admirals of his era to be retired as only a rear admiral. Most of his contemporaries retired as vice admirals. He died at the
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on January 16, 1977, at the age of 75. He was buried with full military honors in Section 3 of
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, adjacent to two of his brothers.


Awards and honors

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*
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* Presidential Unit Citation *
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* Victory Medal *
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*
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* European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal * Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal * World War Two Victory Medal *
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*
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The
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was named for Daniel V. Gallery and two of his brothers, Rear Admiral William O. Gallery and Rear Admiral Phillip D. Gallery. Gallery Park in
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(where he commanded the Naval Air Reserve Training forces at the
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from 1952 to 1954), is named after him. The park sits at the former site of the Naval Air Station.


Literary career

Gallery wrote 10 books, and a number of magazine articles and short stories on naval topics. His fictional books are humorous except ''The Brink'' (1973), which is a dramatic novel about the United States and the Soviet Union set aboard a
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submarine.


Non-fiction

*''Clear the Decks'' (Morrow, 1951) *''U-505'' (original title: ''Twenty Million Tons Under the Sea'') (1956) *''We Captured a U-boat'' (Popular Book Club, 1958) *''The Pueblo Incident'' (Doubleday, 1970) *''Eight Bells'' (original title: ''Eight Bells And All's Well'') (Norton, 1965)


Fiction

*''Now, Hear This!'' (Paperback Library, 1966) *''Stand By-y-y to Start Engines'' (Norton, 1966) *''Cap'n Fatso'' (sequel to ''Now, Hear This'') (Norton, 1969) *''Away Boarders'' (sequel to ''Cap'n Fatso'') (Norton, 1971) *''The Brink'' (Warner Books, 1973)


Quotations by Daniel V. Gallery

*"The definition of a calculated risk is a gamble which military men take when they can't figure out what else to do and which turns out to be right. When it turns out wrong, it wasn't a calculated risk at all. It was a piece of utter stupidity." *"Some critics have accused the military of being profligate wastrels because we didn't win World War II by killing the last Jap with the last bullet we had in our ammo locker. I would much rather defend myself against such charges than try to explain to my three kids why we lost our liberties because military planners didn't want the war to end with a lot of surplus junk on our hands." *"When nations, by mutual consent, decide to ignore the commandment 'Thou shall not kill', it is very difficult for the military leaders to restrict the killing to just the right people."Daniel V. Gallery, ''We captured a U-boat'', The Popular Book Club, London, 1958, p. 243


See also

* William O. Gallery * Phillip D. Gallery * William Rynne


References


Further reading

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External links


Short biography from Arlington National Cemetery
* ttps://www.usna.edu/Library/sca/man-findingaids/MS_384.EAD.xml Daniel V. Gallery Papers, 1907-1977 MS 384held by Special Collections & Archives, Nimitz Library at the United States Naval Academy * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gallery, Daniel V. 1901 births 1977 deaths United States Navy personnel of World War II United States Naval Aviators United States Naval Academy alumni United States Navy rear admirals (upper half) Wrestlers at the 1920 Summer Olympics American male sport wrestlers Olympic wrestlers of the United States Burials at Arlington National Cemetery Recipients of the Navy Distinguished Service Medal Military personnel from Illinois Writers from Chicago