However, Giraud was persuaded that he had to go. He requested to be fetched by aeroplane, but General Dwight Eisenhower advised that he should be brought to Gibraltar by the British submarine , masquerading as "USS "Seraph"" under the nominal command of American Captain Jerauld Wright, as no US submarines were operating in the vicinity. On 5 November, he and his two sons were picked up near Toulon by HMS "Seraph" and taken to meet Eisenhower in Gibraltar. He arrived on 7 November, only a few hours before the landings.