The German submarine U-505, captured by the US Navy during World War II, is on permanent display at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.Griffin Museum of Science and IndustryOver eight decades ago, the US Navy made the historic capture of a Nazi U-boat during World War II.A treasure trove of vital German intelligence, the submarine's capture was top-secret.See inside the U-boat, now a permanent exhibit at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science and Industry.Submarine warfare played a pivotal role in the Battle of the Atlantic as German U-boats targeted merchant ships and troop carriers from the US and other Allied nations.The underwater predators sank Allied ships faster than they could be replaced, starving the British of crucial war material, but the Allies eventually turned the tide as they implemented improved radar and sonar detection, codebreaking measures, and warship convoys.In 1944, a US Navy task group hunted a Nazi U-boat in a top-secret operation that was only made public after the war ended, marking the first time the service captured an enemy vessel since 1812.The U-505The submarine is held aloft near the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry as it is lowered into its future exhibit space.Griffin Museum of Science and IndustryConstructed at the docks of Hamburg, Germany, the U-505 was one of the German navy's Type IX-class submarines, a long-range attack boat developed with longer dive times and agility compared to its predecessors.Given the Kriegsmarine's limited surface fleet, the U-boat was tasked with destroying shipping vessels in the Atlantic owned by the US and other Allied nations.

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  • See inside a WWII-era U-boat, the only submarine that the US Navy captured intact and towed home
    Germany's U-505 submarine was the 1st warship captured by the US Navy in over a century and top secret during World War II. See photos of the inside.
    01/10/2025 - 8:01 pm | View Link
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