”I came up out of the engine room,” said retired Rear Adm. Earl Trosino, 76, of Springfield, Pa., ”and the word was passed: `Commander Trosino, report to the captain on the bridge immediately!` ”I ...

The U-505, captured June 4, 1944, was the only German U-boat captured by the Allies during World War II and is the only U-boat of its kind in the United States. The Museum will be hosting a wide ...

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 ...

U-505 was a near absolute failure as a killer, failing to sink a single ship for multiple combat tours in a row, suffering the only suicide of a commanding officer in the German undersea service until ...

“Frenchy to Blue Jay: I have a possible sound contact.” With that radio transmission from the escort aircraft carrier USS Guadalcanal, sent shortly after 11 a.m. on June 4, 1944, the German submarine ...

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 exhibition covers 35,000 square feet of space at the museum. It contains 200 artifacts including historic newspapers and photographs, videos, radio transmissions, re-enactments of key events, ...

CHICAGO, May 27 (UPI) -- When the U-505 submarine was launched in August 1941 it joined a fearsome German war machine that was the most technologically advanced military in the world -- it even ...

It turned out to be a real adventure when we visited the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago to explore the capture of the German submarine U-505 during World War II. Would we find a way to stop ...

Once the hunters of the Atlantic ocean, the German wolfpacks by 1944 had become the hunted. Allied task groups dubbed “Hunter-Killer[s]” methodically attacked, scuttled and destroyed German U-boats, ...

Over eight decades ago, the US Navy made the historic capture of a Nazi U-boat during World War II. A treasure trove of vital German intelligence, the submarine's capture was top-secret. See inside ...

CHICAGO -- A German U-boat captured by the U.S. Navy 60 years ago embarked on a new voyage Thursday after a champagne christening. The 700-ton U-505 began a two-week journey of 1,000 feet -- on remote ...