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Originally Posted by XanderF
What are the other boats in the worth checking out? Preference for US-West coast at the moment, as that is the easiest to travel to. I'd really like to see one of the earlier subs - a US S-boat or Type II U-Boat, if any still exist. Wife wants to visit Germany, too (families hail from there), so any over there worth seeing would also be a welcome recommendation.
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I don't believe any S-boats survived to this day.
A Type IIA prototype called Vesikko can be found in Finland, the only one surviving of this class.
In Germany, you can find a Type VII (U-995) in Kiel and a Type XXI (U-2540, aka. Wilhelm Bauer) at Bremerhaven.
There are a LOT more American WWII subs surviving than any others I know. I've got it planned to go check out a few of them, especially those now on the Great Lakes, sometime soon
I've only been on one WWII boat so far, the Soviet D-2, and it's in excellent condition. Also happens to be, as I suspect, the oldest surviving veteran sub that actually sunk enemy ships (built in the late 1920s, served in WWII)