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 (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 ...

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 ...

The U-505 submarine served 12 patrols and sank eight enemy boats before the US Navy captured it. The U-boat is now on display at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science and Industry. Visitors can walk ...

Museum exhibitions that hang around long enough to wear the tag “venerable” can be problematic. How do you get people to visit something, say, a third time, to pay fresh attention to the artifact that ...

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 ...

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 ...

The last time Ralph Tarka visited the U-505 at the MSI was about two years ago just before he retired from American Airlines. But he has been a geek about military history and it’s accessories for his ...

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 ...

The Museum of Science and Industry, home to the U-505 submarine, is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the German boat’s capture with the opening of a new exhibit and free tours of the sub on June 4.