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 (WLS) -- Tuesday marks 75 years since the U.S. Navy captured the U-505 German submarine, now on display at the Museum of Science and Industry. Chicago Captain Dan Gallery helped secure the ...

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 ...

The boarding party that captured U-505 on June 4, 1944. (Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago) Once the hunters of the Atlantic ocean, the German wolfpacks by 1944 had become the hunted. Allied ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: The story behind the U-505, a German submarine housed at the Museum of Science and Industry is a series of victories, miracles, timing and good luck. Many of us who grew up in Chicago ...

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 ...

Seventy years ago, a then 18-year-old Gordon Hohne climbed aboard a deadly german U-505 submarine off the coast of West Africa. Gordon is the only living survivor of the nine man boarding party in ...

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 ...

Despite all the books, movies and even dolls dedicated to the topic, it can be hard to understand what World War II was really like. And with fewer members of the Greatest Generation around to tell us ...

The Museum of Science and Industry's German U-505 submarine is set to resurface as a complete indoor, state-of-the-art, climate-controlled exhibition space. U-505's curator Keith Gill spoke with us ...