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 ...

The U-Boat’s crew, who were on their first patrol, raised the white flag after the sub was damaged by depth charges dropped from a British bomber on Aug. 27, 1941.

A World War II German U-boat, sunk more than 72 years ago, ... All of the U-boat's 45 crew were lost when it was sunk July 14, 1942, during the Battle of the Atlantic. Ed Caram/NOAA.

Nov. 23, 2013— -- Researchers have apparently discovered the remains of a World War II-era German U-boat and the skeletons of its crew off the coast of Indonesia. Experts say it's an ...

U-boat commander Reinhard Hardegen, second from left, looks on as Adolph Hitler shakes hands with another U-Boat commander, Erich Topp, in May 1942. During that year, German subs sank many ...

THREE submarines used by the Nazis during World War II were discovered buried under a car park decades after the Allied victory. The U-boats – an abbreviation of Unterseeboot meaning “u… ...

In 1982, members from the US Navy's Task Group 22.3 reunited with members of the German submarine's crew in Chicago, marking the first time the German sailors saw the U-boat since the war.

World War II veterans who were there when the U-505 on display at the Museum of Science and Industry was captured in 1944 visited the vessel on the 70th anniversary of its capture.

This was the first U-boat to be destroyed in WW2. All of the U39 crew were picked up, with only one of them having a slight injury. These men were at a later date sent to Canada to spend the rest ...

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