U-505 otherwise would be used as gunnery and torpedo target, but Father John Gallery contacted President Lenox Lohr of Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry and they already planned to display a submarine so U-505 was ideal for that. With donations of Chicago residents U-505 was transported to Chicago.
There in 1954 U-505 was dedicated as a permanent exhibit and a war memorial to all the sailors who lost their lives in the battle of the Atlantic.

(hopefully I didn't overlook something this time :O:)

After the war, the Navy had no further use for U-505. She had been thoroughly examined in Bermuda, and was now moored derelict at the Portsmouth Navy Yard. It was decided to use her as a target for gunnery and torpedo practice until she sank.[23] In 1946, Gallery, now a rear admiral, told his brother Father John Gallery about this plan. Father John contacted President Lenox Lohr of Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) to see if they would be interested in U-505. MSI, established by Chicago businessman Julius Rosenwald, was a center for "industrial enlightenment" and public science education, specializing in interactive exhibits. As the museum already planned to display a submarine, the acquisition of U-505 seemed ideal. In September 1954, U-505 was donated to Chicago by the U.S. government, a public subscription among Chicago residents raised $250,000 for transporting and installing the boat. The vessel was towed by United States Coast Guard tugs and cutters through the Great Lakes, making a stop in Detroit, Michigan in the summer of 1954. On 25 September 1954, U-505 was dedicated as a permanent exhibit and a war memorial to all the sailors who lost their lives in the two Battles of the Atlantic.

Captain Daniel Gallery, the commander of group 22.3 who had planned and executed the capture of U 505, was an Illinois native and a considerable author in his own right. He proposed the rescue and display of the U-505 to the Museum where it resides today and rescued it from its intended doom as a stripped out target ship in Bermuda. It was towed up the St Lawrence and Great Lakes to its present location in Chicago in 1954 and is the only surviving IXC U-boat in existence today.:salute:Y bien venidos al Señor BIAMAKU(un poco tarde)!:Kaleun_Salute:

@meduza

Could you PM me your physical address.

Sent.

I guess I missed this one... :doh:

Autobuy
 

a good book about U-505 + $3.99 = bought

I'm looking forward to this one.

Wha...!! yet another Kaleun brought to the surface by a good book!:know: Welcome formally aboard Di_wenck, on your first post!:Kaleun_Salute:

Welcome Matey :salute:

How about 1530 cubits? That predates both Metric and Imperial, I think, although it doesn't have an international standard sitting under glass in some lab in Paris :)
Toodles,
-- Zyg --

Ahoy fellows,

I thank you for your participation in the contest. I have gone through the questions and answers, and I am posting the following four as the winners,


Question 1
Jimbuna
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...0&postcount=23

Question 2
DesertGhost
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...55#post2143755

Question 3
meduza
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...7&postcount=48

Question 4
Aktungbby
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...2&postcount=63

You should check your PMs, thanks:salute:
Neal
SUBSIM

Congratulations, fellow Kaleuns! :salute:

Big thanks to Neal, nikimcbee, Subsim and the publisher!

Seconded :sunny:

Thirded? :O:
It was a fun and informative trivia quiz, if I may say so! :salute:

battin' cleanup (#4)
 

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