Gallery: The U-505 70 years on
View both historic and present-day photos of the U-505 submarine that is currently located at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.
Capture of German U-boat 505: USS Pillsbury tied up to the U-505 after a U.S. Navy Salvage party captured the submarine, seen from the USS Guadalcanal.
Captain Daniel V. Gallery, commander of the USS Guadalcanal, on the conning tower of the German U-boat 505 prior to its being taken in tow by the USS Guadalcanal.
U-505 boat being towed after its capture.
Salvage parties at work on the U-505, as one of the USS Guadalcanal’s TBM aircraft circles overhead. In the background is USS Chatelain, whose depth charge attack forced the German crew to surface and abandon their ship.
U.S. Navy crew secure a tow harness to the U-505 German submarine after capturing it on June 4, 1944.
U.S. Navy crew secure a tow harness to the U-505 German submarine after capturing it on June 4, 1944.
A U.S. lifeboat picks up crewmen from the captured U-505.
Spectators watch as captured German submarine U-505 is taken in tow, June 1944.
The U-505 sits next to the USS Guadalcanal.
The members of the boarding party that first accessed the captured U-505.
U-505’s crewmen are cooled off by a salt water hose in the catwalks of USS Guadalcanal, June 13, 1944. The U-505 is in the center distance, under tow by a navy fleet tug.
U-505 prisoners line up, from left to right: Hans Georg Seft, Helmut Huse, Otto Dieta, Ernst Becker, Heinze Duhme, and Gunter Krug.
The captured U-505 German submarine in the dry docks of the Great Lake Dredge and Dock Company, before it was moved to the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago in 1954.
U-505 in water in Chicago.
U-505 arrives in Chicago.
U-505 arrives in Chicago.
U-505 arrives in Chicago, under raised bridge.
The U-505 arrives at the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago.
Aerial view of the U-505 beached, ready to cross Lake Shore Drive in 1954.
Bathers on 57th Street Beach next to U-505 as it preps to cross Lake Shore Drive in 1954.
View of U-505 on barge approaching 57th Street Beach in1954.
Aerial view of U-505 on 57th Street Beach, with views of Lake Shore Drive and the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago.
Dedication Ceremony of the U-505 to MSI in 1954.
Dedication Ceremony of the U-505 to MSI in 1954.
Crowd and blimp at Dedication Ceremony of the U-505 to MSI in 1954.
U-505 interior, 1946-1954
Special visitors to the U-505: Axel Lowe (U-505’s first captain) with MSI President Lenox Lohr January 28, 1958. (Chicago Sun-Times photo)
Boy climbs through U-505 with Lenox Lohr and R/Adm. D.V. Gallery USN as the 4,000,000th visitor to the U-505 exhibit on July 10, 1962.
Museum guide-lecturer Stewart Nozette shows visitors Vince Murphy of Florence, Ala., and Christine Adrian, of Matteson, Ill., some of the details of the U-505’s operation. (Progress Magazine July-August 1976)
25th anniversary of the 1954 Dedication Ceremony, held on September 25, 1979. Task Group 22.3 members and their families stand on the U-505 deck.
U-505 reunion September 9-12, 1982: Former crew seated in front of U-505.
U-505 reunion September 9-12, 1982: Group photo, U-505 USS Guadalcanal reunion September 10, 1982.
The U-505 moves from outdoors on the southeast side of the Museum to indoors on the northeast side over the course of several days in April 2004.
The U-505 moves from outdoors on the southeast side of the Museum to indoors on the northeast side over the course of several days in April 2004.
With the help of 18 self-powered dollies, guided by remote control, moving one inch per minute, the sub was moved and lowered into a brand new exhibit space in April 2004.
The U-505 moves from outdoors on the southeast side of the Museum to indoors on the northeast side over the course of several days in April 2004.
The U-505 was lowered, four inches at a time, into its new home—the underground exhibit space, which measures 75 x 300 feet and 42-feet deep.
The U-505 was lowered, four inches at a time, into its new home—the underground exhibit space, which measures 75 x 300 feet and 42-feet deep.
The U-505 is now part of a 35,000-square-foot permanent exhibit that that showcases the story of the German sub’s legendary capture in World War II and explores technology and life aboard the vessel.
A glimpse of the crew bunks in the U-505 submarine aft torpedo room.
The U-505 is a 35,000-square-foot permanent exhibit that that showcases the story of the German sub’s legendary capture in World War II and explores technology and life aboard the vessel.
Inside the engine room of the U-505 submarine.
The U-505 has been faithfully restored to look as it did when it was captured on June 4, 1944.
The propeller of the U-505.
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U-boats were designed with little concern for the comfort of their crews. The subs were first and foremost weapons platforms with one goal: delivering their torpedoes to Allied targets as efficiently as possible.
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.
Paul Payne, a retired history teach, was born July 7, 1944, a month after the capture of the…
