On June 4, 1944, the US Navy captured its first German submarine. Now it's displayed at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over 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 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- On June 4, 1944, U.S. troops boarded and captured the U-505 Nazi submarine, which they managed to keep a secret until the war ended. By convincing Germany that the U-505 had been sunk ...

He's a little unsteady on his feet so he uses a walker or a cane to get around his Tempe home. That's how it is these days with men like Bob Lofgren, men who went to war and saved the world and then ...

Alexander Rose’s "Phantom Fleet: The Hunt for Nazi Submarine U-505 and World War II’s Most Daring Heist" is a thrilling, deeply researched account of one of the most audacious naval operations of ...

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 ...

When the World War II German submarine U-505 last went under way, tugboats pulled it from a port in New Hampshire to Chicago, taking a month in 1954 to travel 3,000 miles through the St. Lawrence ...

"In this exact moment 75 years ago off the West African coast, the allied forces were set on a path that would help turn the tide of World War II," said Bill Kurtis, narrator of the U-505 exhibit in ...