On June 4, 1944, two days before the Normandy landings, an American hunter-killer group in the Atlantic forced a German submarine to the surface off the coast of French West Africa. The U-boat was ...
The U-505 submarine served 12 patrols and sank eight enemy boats before the US Navy captured it in 1944. The U-boat is now on display at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science and Industry. Visitors can ...
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 ...