The U-505 submarine is one of the city’s premier museum attractions, on a par with Georges Seurat’s painting “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte” at the Art Institute or Sue the T-Rex at the Field Museum.

When the German submarine U-505 was captured by US forces in 1944, the mission was top secret. Now, eight decades later, the vessel — the only intact German submarine that was captured by US forces ...

Captain Daniel V. Gallery, USN, Commanding Officer of the U.S. Navy escort carrier USS Guadalcanal, on the bridge of the captured German submarine U-505 prior to its being taken in tow by his escort ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- World War II veteran Don Carter was there 70 years ago when the German U-boat on display at Chicago Museum of Science and Industry was captured. In 1944, German submarines, called ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --One of the last surviving U.S. sailors who helped board and capture the German submarine U-505 during World War II was at the Museum of Science and Industry on Wednesday to celebrate ...

On Wednesday, in honor of the 70th anniversary of the capture of German submarine U-505, the Museum of Science and Industry welcomed veterans of Task Group 22.3. (The Task Group was composed of the ...

CHICAGO, May 27 (UPI) -- When the U-505 submarine was launched in August 1941 it joined a fearsome German war machine that was the most technologically advanced military in the world -- it even ...

ONE can only imagine what Bermudians must have thought when on June 19, 1944 they watched as an American boat towed a German submarine into the Great Sound. The U-505, captured by the Americans off ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- As the country remembers D-Day 70 years later, the Museum of Science and Industry is commemorating a major milestone made that same week by Allied forces in WWII. The U.S. Navy ...

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