Take a tour-German U-505 Submarine U boat Museum of Science and Industry 2016 

in case anyone is wondering, U-505 is a Type IXc, the larger and less produced bigger brother of the Kriegsmarine's main u-boat, the Type VII. its operational range was so great that it could sail to the waters off of North America and linger for up to a month without even refueling, depending on fuel and supplies usage.

Crazy we almost used that beautiful ship for target practice after the war. What a treasure to still have it.

Such a beautiful ship, wish I could Be at that museum, alone at 10 pm, with all the exhibits open, just to admire them in peace

One of my favorite childhood memories was going on a field trip to the Museum of science and industry and seeing the U 505. Just such a cool exhibit even back then when the U 505 was outside the museum. In the early 1990's we were fortunate to meet the German submariner who pulled the plug so to scuttle the U 505. He said the Crew on the USS Guadalcanal were firing guns over the hatch where he was going to drop the plug over the side of the sub, so he dropped the plug inside the U 505 and went out up the ladder. We talked with the man and his daughter for about an hour. Super Nice people. We bought a mug that has his WW2 picture on it and he signed the mug too 😀

My father, Ottoman Schulz, USA Chicago born; was an engineer at the museum when the sub was brought down the river and placed at the museum. it was an exciting time for our family.

One of the last grey wolves of the Atlantic, truly a marvelous piece of history

Excellent presentation. I traveled to Chicago from Atlanta in the winter of 1975 with my brother and a friend. We saw U-505 then - 43 years ago. I joined the Navy that summer, and after recruit training in Orlando, Florida and Submarine School in Groton, Connecticut, I served aboard a submarine, though it was newer, nuclear powered and "a little" more comfortable. U-505 is probably the most meticulously preserved World War II submarine on static display in the world. So many other World War II submarines, particularly the U.S. submarines that served in that war, are simply sitting in salt water, rusting and rotting as time goes by. Too bad. When they're gone, they're gone for good.

I went a few a years after my Dad had passed, I was choked up the whole time. He would of been excited!

Way back in 1968 I was at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago and toured the U 505. I was very young but I remember how cramped it seemed for men live on that sub. I took the whole tour. I'm glad it's still there.

In April I went to see the Angels play the Cubs and while I was in Chicago I saw this exhibit. It was an amazing experience!

When I go there, I just think of the patriotic music from U-571. It’s such a humbling or just amazing thing to see. You know what, I’ll wear my U-505 shirt today! Thanks for the video

Thanks for posting this. I shall watch it many times.

Last time I saw the u-505 it was outside... This look a lot nicer than it used to be... I spent a lot of time in the museum of science and industry as a kid...

I have been listening to Steel Boat, Iron Hearts: A U-boat Crewman's Life Aboard U-505 by Hans Goebeler and John Vanzo on Audible and it makes you really connect when you hear what happened on the U-boat and you see the places where it happened.

I lived in and south of Chicago and toured this boat on field trips from school many times. back then you could walk through it and it was out side. great tour , never gets old.

Deutsches Museum used to have a submarine in the basement. We were there in the early 1970's, they were celebrating Willy Messerschmidts 90th birthday. There were Messerchmidts outside.

I saw the sub in the early nineties without the display mumbo jumbo. It made the experience so much more genuine and real. So sad to see that they 'Disneyfied' the U-boat tour inside.

I was there the night the 505 was settled at the museum. Just a kid, but never forget it. All the workers celebrating, it was a party! My grandfather was full Swede from the old country. Got to talking with a Swede worker. My Dad and Gramps were taken into the sub to see it, l remember them saying everything was soaked with diesel fuel. When they came out the workman had a guy knock off a couple rivets from the starboard rear torpedo doors as a souvenir. He told me "Sonny, when you hold these remember how many people died when those doors opened" 76 now, still got it somewhere..Pass it down in family.....

Took some damage to the sail from the look of things. Great video. Looks similar in layout to our diesel subs. Form follows function, I guess. My father started his U.S. Navy career on the USS Carbonera, a Balao-class submarine. Another of the class, USS Clamagore, is near us at Patriots Point, Charleston, South Carolina. I took him there one day and we toured the ships, and the boat. I made sure he wore his United States Navy retired ball cap. Later we notice that all the volunteers at the Museum wore these caps. As we toured the Clamagore, my dad was telling me stories of memories he had at different points in the ship; the forward torpedo room and how they loaded a torpedo into the sub. The galley and how they put food EVERYONE on board. The mess where everyone would gather if they had a moment to drink coffee. The bunks and how they would take turns because their were not enough bunks for each member of the crew and sleeping in the heat and sweat of the guy who had been in it before you were. The head, and the one at the stern where you had to pressurize the tank before you flushed or else it all shot back up your behind from the sea pressure, or plastered the walls if you were not sitting at the time. As we ended our trip and were walking back up the steps to leave, one of the other folks with us asked if my dad was going to start the tour again at the front, because they had arrived in the middle and wanted to hear the other stories. I explained that this was my dad, and he was not a guide, but had served onboard one of these subs when he joined the navy back in the 50's. CWO2 Hickerson, is my dad. I am proud to be his son. He had 7 brothers who all served in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. My grandfather served in World War 1. Our family is proud of its military history.

Saw it last week at Chicago museum of Science and Industry. Amazing!!! Took my gal there. She was in awe

My son and I visited this exhibit shortly after the sub arrived at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. Fascinating tour!

Was a pleasant experience to see yhis unique sub in person when i went to chicago to visit family back in 2018...nice to save and see what little bit of history we still have left

Superior camera work. Thank you for putting your excellent video up on he web for all of us to enjoy.

Love that they added sound effects to the sub

It's annoying that they cut out the circular hatches leading in and out of the control room, swinging through those is always great fun

I luv visiting Chicago and I go here every time!, so impressive!!!

I viewed U505 from the outside a few weeks ago. Wish now I’d paid the extra to see inside. Thank you for posting this excellent video.

like it how the blue lights from under the boat lights it up.

Thank You Tom for an excellent Video. And thank you for not chatting and rambling or putting music on over the background audio. Excellent way to post a video, more people should watch this vid and learn how to do it right before they upload stuff.

My father brought me there when I was a young boy in the mid or late 50s. The boat was out in the open back then along side the museum building.

You can watch the sub and crew being captured. Victory at sea episode 16, really intense.

Thanks for this awesome video!!! 🤗

I toured this boat when I was a boy, after my dad said that he watched the boat being towed across Lake Shore Drive. There was a sign on the road which said “Warning, submarine crossing the road”. I was so excited to see it. My mom said that I was born to be on subs because she toured the Silversides on Navy Pier when she was 8 months pregnant with me. She said that her back was against one side of the vertical hatch and her tummy was on the other side! I once again toured the boat with my brother when I was 19, after almost 2 years in the submarine service. The condition of the boat was pretty run down. You entered and exited the boat as you do now but I think the compartment hatches were still intact. During the tour, the story goes, I could recognize the different systems and was explaining what things were to my brother. After a bit i had the attention of the group including the tour guide. It was great fun as I remember. I toured again, with my brother a year or so before this new display, I could hardly tell one system from another! :) From this video, the boat looks in great condition! If all the dialogue and sound effects is what’s needed to reach the young people about history and hopefully about the horror of war then I’m good with it. What I miss is the comradeship. Hope to tour this boat again. SJ

Here in Philadelphia, I've toured the the Becuna (SS-319). A U.S. Balao-class submarine, but it was nowhere near as cool a set up as this sub.... This is incredible how they have this machine preserved and displayed...

Tough way the live but a hell of a tough way to die.

I toured the U505 when I was a child and the U-boat was sitting outside in the parking lot at the Museum of Science & Industry. This exhibit now looks amazing.

Thank you! Love U-Boat

It feels great seeing a surviving piece of history being well maintained. Kinda wished the USS Enterprise had also had the honor instead of being scrapped.

Been aboard 505 many times - those were brave men on both sides that crewed these iron coffins.

I went to see it too and it's so cool. I had a fun time seeing it

This is on my bucket list. Here we only have a Type IIA prototype built for Germany under a Dutch shell corporation (no pun intended). There was also a Proyekt 651 class boat, but it was sold to the K-19 Widowmaker film production company and was ultimately sunk.

Thank You So Much

Amazing video thanks, willing to go there and see it in perdon.

Back in 1968-69 my parents took my sister, brother, and I to see U 505.I can still smell her today,and I can't even think of living in that "PIG BOAT" as they were known back then.

Beautiful Museum thank you America

WOW... AMAZING!!! Wish I could visit Chicago. Damn...

Happy to have been on her myself, although many years ago.

I just went yesterday such a awesome experience inside i was telling my family that i wished i live back then in the u boat 505 and to be in the exact wear but just on their side

My late Father was the Senior Chief Petty Officer of the radio room on the USS Jenks, one of the Destroyer Escorts assigned to the Task Group. He and his crewmen handled most of the communications for the Task Group. He got quite a laugh when he was finally discharged after the war, then his papers listed "USS Jerks" instead of Jenks!

A friend of mine took pictures inside the sub whe it wasn't allowed. What a good friend, he's not among the living anymore.

thanks for showing this . i just finished the u 505 book .

I would love to see this!

I remember being in the sub For like an hour cause i was so amazed and When i was inside My friend decided to make a joke and scream *ALARM*

I can see it took a lot of work to clean it up so it would be pleasant to tour. Also to see everything clearly. I have been to the U-boat in Liverpool, United Kingdom. It is a rusty mess but still very interesting. They have the one there cut up into pieces and people can look into the various parts. You cannot go inside. It seems so small, only one person at a time could go through it anyway. thanks for posting.

Incredible...

Went on board U-505 @MOSI in Chicago. It was like walking through the insides of a watch. Claustrophobia!

looks different than it did in 92 when i visited. i dont recall being able to get so close to the outter hull and i think it was outdoors (that was over 30 years ago, excuse my faulty memory) i do, however , remember the awesomeness of such a well preserved ww2 ship.

6:51 is when he is actually in the sub. Your welcome

beautiful

Die Ausstellung ist gut gemacht. Ein großes Kompliment an das Museum das die das Boot in eine Halle gestellt haben. Das Boot in Laboe verrottet am Meer langsam aber sicher. Laufen die Motoren noch? Früher wurden die regelmäßig gestartet.

The last and only time I've visited 505 she was outside. That was back in the early 1990's. Still got to go inside the sub.

excelente !!!!

That so awesome love it and awesome video you rock😎👍

Very nice, greetings from Germany

i saw it when it was outside a long time a go it was cool then and now

Still EPIC AF 😍

Crazy engineering

I visited the U505 back in 1965. With my grammar school St Cletus I was 10 years old. Born 10 years after the end of WWII. Back then schools were teaching history more deeply then then and not re-writing it. 1930s through 1949 was the most significant time in modern history. We are still living in the results of WWII. The strength of the US happened because of WWII. The Cold War happened because of WWII believe it or not the Arab wars were started and intensified because SS leaders trained many Arabs in their type of war fare. Iran was called PERSIA before WWII. It got its name from fraternizing with Arians. The Nazis and Arab world were close allies. Obviously they had the same enemy .

I have visited this boat a couple of times. One of only 2 combat U boats still in existence, the other is the type VII U-995 in Kiel Germany

I saw this in 1968 when I was 8 years old. Then it was still outside. I told my dad then it was tiny inside. Would love to go back again but not to Chicago.

Oh yeah I was there! I was on Tour inside the Submarine!

My family & I toured the uss Cobia in manatowac Wisconsin in 1994, then in 2007 my wife & I toured the Nautilus in Groton Conn. What difference 17 years made in sub technology. Cobia was built in 1942 Nautilus in 1959. The Nautilus was like a hotel inside compared to the Cobia. The mess hall was like the cafeteria in a collage. Stainless steel slide tubes to slide your tray along as you chose which foods you wanted through the glass sneeze tray viewing. Soda machine. Julie machine. All I could think was that there was probably some It. Jr. Officer who could have been in long enough to have seen & lived through the changing times. Then would have told the youngens in my day.

This could Sail from Europe to Usa and back whitout refuelling and also lurk in the coast line for American shipping and convoys. Most of the German Uboats had to rely on "milkcows" on their journey's. Milcows are resupply Uboats and they would meet the attacking uboats somewhere in the Atlantic and resupply them....i just fucking love Uboats from ww2 era...nice Video thank you.

After reading the comments, I have to tell you a story. You’ve all seen the movies where all the men rushed forward to get the bow pointing down to get the boat boat to dive faster. In the 60’s we would have trim parties. When a inexperienced officer take command the boat he would adjust the trim the sub to “fly” level. Like a airplane, each sub likes different trims to be most efficient. Maybe 2 degrees up or down. We would collect a few sailors and hang out in the fwd torpedo room. The bow would start to point a little down. After a bit of time, the young officer would have pumped enough water from the various trim tanks aft. The bow would come back to level. Then we would walk casually aft then the stern of the sub would go down, we would hear the pumps running and the stern would come back to level. We would do this a few times until at some point while walking through the control room, the Captain said “Knock it off”! The young officer who was having such a hard time trimming the boat knew instantly that he had been had!

Took the tour nearly a decade ago, and LOVED IT. Loved the entire museum, but went there for the U505

My family went through it in the early 60s when it was still outside.

Great film indeed, you certainly didn't want to be unlucky enough to have served on a U-Boat after 43, by the end of the war of the 863 U-Boats that were used by the Kriegsmarine 784 were lost, and of the over 40000 men who manned these boats less than 10000 survived the war. These numbers show how proficient the allies became at hunting these boats down...Churchill said in his memoirs, "The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril".

Been on her many times although she did seem a whole lot larger when I was 10.

If anybody wants to see a Type IXX look for a video about the Wilhelm Bauer U2540 . Its currently in a naval museum in Germany Bremerhaven.

We are so short sighted when it comes to saving stuff from important times like wars and such. I suppose after a war everyone just wants to get shot of every reminder.

I live in Chicago and I have been in there multiple times

Nice to see that this submarine will be preserved. Are the engines still running? When the boat was still outside, the engines were sometimes started.

Glad they built the building around it to protect it from those Chicago winters.

I took the tour back around 2003. It was a little different than this film shows. One has to tour personally to see how cramped it really it is.

Thanks for the footage, someone needs to take a drone , and fly, around for more in depth look around

super

type IX boat! very nice

Are there guided tours? I live in Portland and have it on my bucket list to take Empire Builder from one end to the other. If I ever decide to do so it would be interesting to see how submarine tech evolved since I've taken the tour of our local cold war-era museum sub a couple times.

I think one day I'm going to need to make a trip to see this. I think the only thing that has kept me from doing it is the concern about going to the Chicogoland War Zone.

What model video camera did you use to record this? Thank you!

Is the footage from 6:45 from the same boat? why is there a break?

I visited her many years ago in 1975

I remember when it was in Detroit, MI behind the Brodhead Naval Armory. We were not allow to go aboard and stand on the deck. What could a bunch of cub scouts do?

Read or lisen to the bok Steal Boat Iron Hearts!!! you will have the storry of U-505!

Going soon

they should put a ps. note that these could go way past 230m maybe even give the highest depth recorded on a type ix/ix-c.

German engineering 👏

wow my dream is to be there🙂

10:05 the chinese couple in cantonese "Write that down. Write that down!"

I went inside it in 1981 while visiting my brother from Cincinnati. I was 22. I'm assuming you can still go inside it, right?