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-boat they have on display there.

Germany's U-505 submarine was the 1st warship captured by the US Navy in over a century and top secret during World War II. See photos of the inside.

The submarine U-505, pictured from an American Airline plane, sits in the dry dock of the American Shipbuilding Company at 101st Street and the Calumet River, where it will be placed on a barge ...

Photographer Andrei Duman uses X-rays to create the images in “Beyond the Surface.” The objects displayed include an Enigma coding machine from the museum’s own U-505 submarine.

For that, Mr. Donoghue was given a lifetime pass to visit the U-505. John Donoghue’s lifetime pass to visit the U-505 exhibition at the Museum of Science and Industry.

Germany's U-505 submarine was the 1st warship captured by the US Navy in over a century and top secret during World War II. See photos of the inside.