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 ...

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

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) -- 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 ...

"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 ...

This story was originally published in the Chicago Tribune on Aug. 14, 1954: At the end of a 3,000 mile trip from the Atlantic ocean, the U-505, captured nazi submarine, was hauled ashore last evening ...

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 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 ...

“Frenchy to Blue Jay: I have a possible sound contact.” With that radio transmission from the escort aircraft carrier USS Guadalcanal, sent shortly after 11 a.m. on June 4, 1944, the German submarine ...

On June 4, 1944, the German sub known as U-505 was captured off the coast of West Africa. Tracking and disabling this elusive U-boat not only protected vital supply lines, but the swift and courageous ...

So I spent the last week on vacation in Chicago visiting my brother. We went to the Museum of Science & Industry there, mainly so I could see the U-505, a Type IX U ...