German U-Boats That Were Recovered

[@OceanlinerDesigns]

Hi everyone! This is a re-edited, re-uploaded version of an older video. The original video was taken down by our team preemptively for copyright reasons but we're pleased to present a new and improved version with new information! ~Mike

[@EarlTheWhiteNinja]

That's ok. It's another excuse to watch one of your fabulous videos, so I won't complain! Great video as always, Mike!

[@nunyabidness674]

Hey! At least you were able to edit in some as well edit out the required bits and were giving us a heads up! And now to watch the "Directors Cut"

[@BrettonFerguson]

My advice. Don't go to Chicago. I'm only half joking. But seriously I would get a rental car and stay in a hotel in a suburb, then go visit the uboat in the morning and day, then get back to the suburb hotel.

[@brodriguez11000]

@@nunyabidness674 Needs lens flare. 🙂

[@throttlegalsmagazineaustra7361]

Mike l suspect I'm preaching to the converted, but I just finished reading Cox's Navy by Tony Booth. An excellent book detailing the salvage of the Imperial Fleet after WW1

[@trainnerd3029]

Mike does it right! No crappy music, computer voice, or unrelated fillers. Just just good old fashion research, narrated properly! Love this channel!

[@nursestoyland]

indeed!

[@Xpwnxage]

I can't stand the generic stock music on other channels.

[@TheWaldicorn]

Yeah, some other channels use video of any vessels they can find, some not even from the right erra!

[@greghelms4458]

Me too. Well said.

[@gordonmichaellee]

That’s because he is our friend!

[@PhyllisJerry]

The Museum of Science & Industry in Chicago, where U-505 is on display, is definitely worth a visit. They also have several vintage trains and even a Boeing 727 airliner inside the museum, all perfectly preserved and able to be entered.

[@aidanacebo9529]

yeah but getting shot or stabbed or robbed in "Chiraq" doesn't sound appealing. you can't even legally physically defend yourself.

[@mbryson2899]

Do they still have the Spitfire and the Stuka suspended in the entry hall? I haven't visited since the mid-80s after I moved to California. As a Chicago kid I used to go at least twice a year.

[@SheTellsSeaTales]

​@@mbryson2899Aye, they do.

[@johnbroadway4196]

Question, How is it that the German's got so well ahead of British, French and American Navy's in building Submarines ? Or is this just hype ?

[@mbryson2899]

​@@aidanacebo9529Don't believe the media hype; stay out of poor neighborhoods and you will most likely be personally fine...just like EVERY OTHER big US city. That being said, I'll give the same advice I give tourists to any big city around the world: leave nothing in your vehicle, not even a box of kleenex. Some people will break your window and nick it. (That is not a Chicago thing, it's a common sense thing.)

[@selinalunaria9346]

Its not an oceanliner designs video without a Titanic cameo. Great video!

[@JamesF0790]

As an almost sweet note about the Uboat in Chicago. When they were restoring her they wrote to Germany to ask the companies that made parts for it if they had any spares. They supplied them free of charge so that there would be at least one example of their work left afterwards.

[@JTeam45]

I've visited that U-Boat! The tour is very worth it

[@fhwolthuis]

I visited the U-995 located at the Laboe Naval Memorial in Germany, near Kiel. Monument and U boot are very impressive.

[@Frankie-2608]

I too made a visit to the U-995 in Laboe Germany, just north of Kiel. Well worth a trip to see the other boats within the area as well as the German sub

[@Paradox-vu9ro]

I actually got a private tour of U-505. We went to the museum on the same day as a football game in Chicago, and it also happened to be the same day a blizzard was rolling in. My family made up three of the roughly 50 people in the building that day. It’s a really well preserved exhibit and I am so glad I got a once in a lifetime opportunity to see it without being cramped in with a giant group

[@ralfie8801]

I would like to see it in its new home. I haven’t been to the museum since they made the new indoor shelter and exhibit. I’ve been on and around it 3 or 4 times in its outside display years and years ago when I was a kid visiting my grandparents in the 60’s and 70’s.

[@TheRandompaint]

Blizzard of 2014?

[@jetsons101]

The U-505 in Chicago is worth the time, effort and money to see. Again Mike, a great watch with outstanding narration.

[@ericcriteser4001]

Rhe U-505 is no joke. Its one Hell of an exhibit. Very worth the visit if you're ever in Chicago. Incredible piece of historic technology. Great share as always.

[@MegaSnow121]

Sad, though interesting stories about these submarines. The U-505 Submarine in Chicago is absolutely worth a visit. My son and his family visited the Museum of Science and Industry this past fall, and the photos of and stories about this remarkable boat are incredible. I saw it 40 years ago long before it was put inside and fully restored. It is impressively huge. Well worth a visit.

[@thelonelyturkey7902]

The Chicago museum U-boat is a fun exhibit. You can take the inside tour for $20 (as of 2022) and they take you through about 80% of it. It's very cool and they also have interactive exhibits such as an enigma machine simulator. If you ever do go there it is very much worth it considering the price. Which I think for the whole deal the museum was under $100 at least when I went. Thanks for another great video!

[@davidthelander1299]

I wonder what the 20 percent is that you can’t see? I took a trip to Chicago a few years ago, hoping to see U505, but was closed due to Covid

[@thelonelyturkey7902]

@@davidthelander1299 they don't take you through a walk a the torpedo or the very aft engine since it is too small to fit large groups in those area and you can't climb the ladder to go up the tower.

[@markstott6689]

I've seen U995 at Laboe. She's a Type VIIC/41. it was during a school exchange with a school at Rendsburg in May 1983. I also climbed to the top of the naval memorial. It's all worth a visit. 😊❤😊

[@DanTheManCalter]

The U-505 exhibit in Chicago is a great one to see. Just know that its popular and ticketed to go inside the ship. Be sure to secure tickets before you go, from my experience theyre usually not available when you walk into the museum. Also, for another submarine exhibit, the USS Silversides Museum is Muskegon Michigan is a cool tour through a preserved US sub. Its more of a small attraction, but if youre in the area its a great one to see

[@JohnBerger-gp1zd]

My mother’s brother served on the U-505, but while in the U.S. Navy! After capture, the U-505 was towed to the U.S. for technical evaluation. Subsequent to that, she was used in a war bond drive on the East Coast after the war (Buy a bond, tour a U Boat). I have a picture of my uncle with a group of his U.S.Navy sailor buddies in the after torpedo room, and I also have two of his dress uniforms. Imagine my classmates’ disbelief when on a field trip to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago when I told them that my uncle was a U Boat sailor…in the U.S. Navy!

[@danteenrass3168]

Hello friends.....unforgettable and beautiful experience visiting U-995 and its Memorial in Laboe (2018)...days later U-534 in Birkenhead UK...a historic trip...maybe this year or at the latest nearby the U-505 USA and the U-2540 in Bremerhaven Germany......years ago I visited our ARA San Juan, a few months later it sank in the cold waters of the South Atlantic.... What a sad ending!! Greetings and a great 2024 to everyone. DE from Argentina

[@7891ph]

I've watched many so called "Documentaries" , with supposed experts, that were no where near as tastefuly written and presented. Ad in the fact that Mike is more than willing to admit and try to correct any mistakes. This is why I'm a subcriber.

[@David-wk6md]

The Museum of Science and Industry. Chicago IL. I was in U505 in '64. I was only 3, yet I still see it in my mind. That says a lot. 🇺🇸🇩🇪 Together, only the end could stop us.

[@WeAreRisen]

I'd love to see the Mike explores US museums video. Just make sure you throw us the long form director's cut too.

[@Jenzo1982]

U-995 is in Kiel (Laboe), Germany. Visitable as a museum. Also a type 21 in Bremerhaven Germany Greetings from Bremen Germany :)

[@brycelobdell6232]

U505 is incredible and Chicago would love to have you. The whole museum where it lives is grand, and so is Hyde Park. Cheers to our friend Mike Brady. What a terrific channel!

[@oremus2843]

Great video. I’ve never seen a recovered U boat, but have dived on the U 85 and the U 352 off the North Carolina coast. The U 85 was an incredible dive back in the 70’s.

[@davidponseigo8811]

I have visited the U-505 in Chicago many times over the years and my grandfather was a guard at Camp Ruston in Louisiana during WW2 and guarded the German sailors from the U-505. I still have some of the military barbed wire my grandfather kept after the war.

[@captainvector]

The museum might actually be interested in your grandfather’s mementos and story. Please consider letting them be made available for the exhibit!

[@carolynhotchkiss4760]

I can definitely recommend a visit to the U505 in Chicago! One of my favorite childhood memories were the trips my parents would take us to the Museum of Science and Industry. The whole place is fascinating, with so many interactive displays. But I really loved the U505. Back then, she was outside, next to the main museum building, so not a great exhibit to visit in a snowy Chicago winter. Nowadays, I hear she has her own inside display area. We Chicagoans are mighty proud of our U boat.

[@kosh6612]

Your channel is one of the few that I am watching more and more thanks to you excellent vids and presentation.... also gotta help a fellow bloke from the best city in Australia ;) U505 is absolutely worth a visit and you can even look through the periscope (or you could pre reno). I still have the booklet they supplied from the 70's. Two things shocked me.. first in a callback to Harvey Keitel's astute observation in the movie U571 that.. "everything's in German", one of the visitors couldn't wrap her head as to why everything was labelled in German on U505. Needless to say the missus and I had a chuckle as our last visit was shortly after that film. The other point of note... (again before they did the building reno), the boat and torpedo's got lots of attention while everyone waked past and ignored a dusty display case with the fricken Enigma machine they captured. In reality... the most important thing in the room. Hey.. what happened to the Oberon class in Western Port Bay near Hastings? Did a few laps in a sail boat around it several years ago

[@JazzJaRa]

U-995 in Laboe (Germany) is also very famous and also attracts a lot of tourists, as it is the last remaining Typt VII/C U-Boat which was the most used and became famous because of the movie "Das Boot".

[@carlmontney7916]

Glad you mentioned U 505. I read a very good book about how they captured her and the journey she made to end up on display in Chicago.

[@johnstreet797]

The boats log showed it patrolled off the African coast in waters as warm as 92F. The engine room while on the surface with the Diesels running would run 50F above that.

[@Thekaiser2023]

Hey is that my friend Mike Brady?? Love your videos, Titanic or not all your videos are inspirational and educational. You can take a simple sentence and tell it the most amazing way to make the listener sit at the edge of their seat. Continue the great work!!!

[@tarstarkusz]

Have you ever watched "Das Boot" It follows a Uboat crew in ww2. It is an outstanding movie and is on youtube with subtitles. The best movie I've seen in 20 years.

[@mbryson2899]

I was around eight when I first toured the _U-505;_ I've visited her and the exhibit many times since, back when she was still outdoors. She got me hooked, I've been interested in ships and shipping ever since. I highly recommend a visit. (I've also toured the _USS Pampanito_ in San Francisco, USA. The similarities and differences are astonishing. Plus, the _U-505_ is on dry land; the _USS Pampanito_ rocks in the waves of the San Francisco bay, very different experiences.)

[@philhawley1219]

Thirty odd years ago I visited a Second World War submarine in Baltimore (USS Torsk?) How incredibly cramped and claustrophobic, I can't imagine how horrifying it must be to be under attack so many fathoms deep. The only other submarine I had been aboard before was HMS Superb, a newer nuclear power hunter killer of the Royal Navy. Even that felt cramped but we must remember the poor sailors who died in the ships torpedoed with no warning and even if they did get off in a boat or just swimming they mostly drowned or died of hypothermia or death by machine gunning. War is vile.

[@bobbymartin7455]

You need to make your American ship stop tour, The Great Lakes (a ferry across too), the Intrepid maybe, and Queen Mary, your over due for it

[@PhyllisJerry]

He definitely should. The SS Badger, one of the Great Lakes ferries, is one of the world’s last coal-fired steamships in revenue service (as opposed to a museum ship). Maybe if he tells them he’s coming, they’ll let him see the engine room.

[@johnshepherd9676]

My first visit to the U-505 came shortly after the exhibit opened. Much later i learned that the uncle of one my friends was the Chief Engineer on the USS Guadalcanal, the flagship of the Task Force that captured her. The operation to capture U-505 was organized by RADM, then Captain, Dan Gallery. He wrote a very entertaining and informative book titled "20 Million Tons Under the Sea." RADM Gallery was a Chicago native.

[@Fallout-7614]

Hahaha, you just answered my question as i watched. I've been watching your channel for a few hrs now. Completely absorbed by how you're telling the history. No over the top theatrical silly stuffs. Just to the point, and so fascinating. Love your channel so much!!!

[@steveevensen8364]

Yes the U 505 is a trip well worth it. She still looks sea worthy. Amazing to walk through her and see a part of history.

[@propheticphil]

Yes you're right

[@propheticphil]

Yes you're right

[@sascharoth177]

In Germany we have the VII C - Boat U-995 in Laboe, the XXI - Boat U-2540 in Bremerhaven. And in Chicago the IX - Boat U-505

[@cyndiebill6631]

Great video! My Uncle was in the Submarine service in WWII. He patrolled in the North Atlantic until the end of the war. ♥️👍

[@davidaugustofc2574]

That's the most interesting video I've seen this week on the entirety of KZbin

[@1999Shortstuff]

I live in Chicago and have visited the U505 twice at the Museum of Science & Industry. For decades, the U505 sat outside in the rear of the museum. About 10 years ago, the MSI built a huge indoor multi-level home for the Submarine. Walking through the U505 was breathtaking as you feel like you have traveled back in time. Well worth your time to see it for yourself.

[@bigman8994]

U505 is absolutely worth the visit for anyone interested in maritime history! I’ve been a couple times and it’s a really unique experience to be able to step inside one of the few submarines of that age in perfect condition still around

[@murdeng]

Mike as an interesting footnote, during the 1980's I was involved in the altitude testing of a small gas turbine for a drone. At the time we utilised a test facilty in Burnley Lancashire UK, owned by the Lucas group of companies. I was told that the pressure vessel that formed the altitude cell was actually the hull of an unfinsided U Boat brought back from France after the second world war as war reparartion. It seemed to have the right dimensions for this but I was never able to confirm the story. If true I spent quite a few hours inside what was basically a U Boat during this time.

[@philhawley1219]

Lightoller survived the Titanic disaster, my grandmother's cousin didn't because he was the bandmaster who kept the musicians playing until the end. Lightoller sunk a U boat in the First world war and in the Second world war when quite a bit older he commanded a small boat evacuating soldiers from Dunkirk. Would the poor unfortunate soldiers be pleased or disappointed to discover who he was?

[@wayneantoniazzi2706]

They probably wouldn't give a damn who he was as long as he got them the hell out of there! Lightoller was certainly a hard case who didn't suffer fools gladly but he was also a hell of a sailor!

[@ldkbudda4176]

War crimes of the Lightoller still are WAR CRIMES!!!

[@Softail77us]

The pictures are fascinating. I paused the video constantly to get a good look at a lot of them. Thank you.

[@maxsredditreadingclub8353]

Hi mike im early again im really happy cause I got your merch for Christmas its so comfortable also RIP To All Those Lost 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️

[@tobiasstergaard6662]

thx you so mutch i was about to be bored out of my mind and the i refres the site and there you are in all your glory you saved my day :D

[@Garde538]

Great to see you again Mike! Happy holidays👍

[@jakobfriedrich5117]

Uboat wrecks are so eerie. In the late stages of the war it was almost absurd what these crews did, they went out on the first voyage having never really been to sea, poorly trained and the allies knew exactly when they left the bases. Then it was literally shooting fish in a barrel. Once spotted with airborne radar, there really was no escape from the destroyers with their ASDIC. Seeing the holes in the wrecks, they just cracked them open like a box of tuna, some of them split in half entirely. What a horrifying time it muat have been, sinking into the icy void, waiting for the water to crush you in an instant... Most of them were just naive boys who had no idea what they were getting into

[@TonyPartington]

Terrific, as always Chris. Many thanks!

[@UncleJoeLITE]

Thanks for a relaxing look at what were, often, terrible tragedies. Great balance imho Capt.

[@debbiejarus1723]

Fascinating video! I find subs so interesting. I agree with others here....you really need to visit the U.S. There are so many ships' stories to tell!

[@christhompson2006]

For a while in the early 2000's the Soviet sub B-39 was docked in Seattle and open for tours. It was a Foxtrot class diesel electric which were the largest non-nuclear subs in the Soviet navy but it sure didn't feel very large from the inside.

[@inkysquid4]

Hi Mike, Have you ever heard of the HMS Terror and Erebus, they're very interesting storied, can't wait to watch this!

[@lawrencestrabala6146]

Always a Bingo with Mike! Keep up the good work friend!

[@typxxilps]

At the site of the german submariners memorial in Laboe near Kiel (Baltic sea) you can find a famous Type VII sub on display you can visit. There is a 30 m tall tower in the shape of a conning tower next to the memorial with all the names of all killed submariners of both wars. There is also another one in Bremerhaven for display in the water and that was the most futuristic one called typ XXi , the first real submarine that could not only dive but also stay submerged for the longest time of all ww2 subs. It also has a lot higher under water speed to be capable to escape from the destroyers.

[@philhawley1219]

A good job the Nazis never put them into full production but I am sure that the victorious allies took a good look at that boat for a few ideas.

[@williamzk9083]

@@philhawley1219 The Type XXI did enter full production but it was well over 1 year late due to manufacturing problems and transport problems of the modules (on canals) and delays in joining the sub sections caused by allied bombing and beset with teething problems from quality issue during acceptance testing such that only about 4-6 of the dozens delivered entered service. The submarine definitely would have lived up to its reputation with a little time. The ones that did enter service performed well. The submarines range and speed was such that it could easily evade an allied search pattern. When using its creeper motors at below 6.3 knots it was almost undetectable at 350-600 meters by allied hydrophones. Above 10-12 knots the allied sonars would go blind from turbulence and own noise. The sensors were most interesting. The passive GHG array sonar had better than 1/2 degree accuracy which is good enough to aim. The active pulse sonar could accurately fire torpedoes without being direction found or even detected with the tech of the day. (Min Max methods didn't work with single pulses). The mast head had a radar absorbing material called Schornsteinfehger (chimney sweep) that was a jaumann absorber that absorbed 96% of radar at 9cm and 80% at 3cm. (also 50% at 25cm). There was a comprehensive set of radar detectors covering the band from 2.5cm to 4m (Athos and Bali) backed up by an mast head infrared detector to detect the engines of approaching allied aircraft. FuMO 391 lansing was a omnidirectional radar that could clear the 'air' before surfacing up to 100km away with a single pulse (essentially undetectable). There was a Hohtenwiel PPI radar stowed in the sail for use when surfaced. -Sensors which didn't quite make it was a submersible 9cm Berlin radar but it was trialed successfully. There was aslo Ballspiel a radar for directing the plane 30mm long range guns based on a Luftwaffe night fighter radar and a radar directed gun called renner. -Surfaced Speed 15,37 kn (28,5 km/h) (Diesel) 17,94 kn (33,2 km/h) (E-Motor) 18,08 kn (33,5 km/h) (E-Motor + Diesel) -Submerged Speed 16,5 kn (30,6 km/h) (Main E-Motors) 6,1 kn (11,3 km/h) (Creeper E-Motors) 10,42 kn (19,3 km/h) (Snorkeling) Range: -Surfaced 15.500 nm (28.700 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h) (NB some sources 15700 nm at 9 knots per trials) -Submerged with Snorkel 15.100 nm at 10 kn with snorkel.. (Note the snorkel had a resonance problem above 6.5 knots so speeds above this were not sustainable until this problem was solved) -Submerged Range 340 nm (630 km) at 5 kn (9,3 km/h) 487 nm at 3 kn with creeper motors. 120 nm at 8 kn with main E-motors. With Creeper Motors (U3007 tests) 487 nm at 3 Knots 333 nm at 3 Knots 256 nm at 3 6 Knots With Main E-Motors (U3007 Tests) 120 nm, at 8 Knots 79 nm at 10 Knots 52 nm at 12 knots (my estimate using cube law and allow for looses from more rapid battery discharge) 26 nm at15 Knots 17-18nm at 17-18 knots (1 hour rate) -British Tests actually exceeded German (probably different battery depletion standards): Performances (British report) Cruising range - normal 15,500 mi. @ 10 kn. 2 engines max. speed 11,150 mi. @ 12 kn. 2 engines submerged 365 mi. @ 5 kn. 2 engines // 285 mi. @ 5 kn. // 170 mi. @ 8 kn // 110 mi. @ 10 kn Surface speed - max. 15.6 kn. Submerged speed - 1 hr. rate 17-18 kn (sustained)

[@BTScriviner]

Your videos are always informative and enjoyable. I always look forward to them. 👍

[@tomb6576]

I grew up in Chicago and can tell you U-505 is well worth the visit! Definitely changed my sense of both the scale of subs but also the living conditions inside of them!

[@ericharris4834]

Very good keep this channel open I enjoyed it very much

[@audreyschlemmer9122]

Hi friend! Great video as always, I love the palpable care you take with your narration 💛

[@typxxilps]

great one - greetings from germany I can also tell that the video presentation and details are really accurate.

[@nigeldunkley2986]

As usual a great job by Mike - just two wee unimportant booboos: that second Lightoller DSC is an American one not a RN DSC and the Mosquito referred to is actually an American aircraft.

[@That_vr6_guy]

A+ documentary, love listening to the history

[@thermalreboot]

U505 is definitely worth a visit. I toured it last summer, it's a great exhibit, you can still see battle damage from it's capture.

[@kbman69]

Great content, no stupid music or corny cut scenes. Subscribed 👍🏼

[@YerManMartian]

You do undeniably good work on this channel! Great stuff.

[@skodakatie7341]

Very interesting video, I do enjoy the factual no nonsense information given. I have subscribed to this channel, and am thoroughly enjoying its content❤.

[@theemporersnewclothes]

Another awesome video. Best wishes for 2024

[@Echo2-2]

These submarine videos are great! Keep up the great work!

[@pv2haisch]

Mike is a g, and is always on point with each video!

[@armynurseshark]

Captain Lightoller felt the way many surface navy sailors felt- if you wanna torpedo merchant ships, you don’t get to surrender when we get ya.

[@wayneantoniazzi2706]

We have to remember the context of the time, in both World Wars the German U-Boot was the most hated vessel in history, only the Viking long ships were subject to the same kind of hate in their own time. We should stop and think before we judge too harshly. It's more than likely that Lightoller and his crew all knew someone lost to U-Boot action.

[@ronjon7942]

@@wayneantoniazzi2706This is a point well taken. Still, a man facing drowning is a terrible thought - but maybe because I’m irrationally terrified of deep water, and having very nearly drowned in a diving incident. And shooting survivors at sea? I just don’t know…perhaps it’s similar to shooting soldiers on land? At any rate, it wasn’t my time andI wasn’t there.

[@bigri8032]

His the one that shot his own people that was clearly rafts with the red Cross clearly marked.

[@kennethhanks6712]

The U-505 was never sunk but captured in combat by the escort carrier/destroyer escort unit led by Capt. Daniel Gallery in the CVE ("jeep carrier") Guadalcanal in 1944.

[@arthurschipper8906]

Always top notch content found here.

[@Jupp071981]

Check the "Wilhelm Bauer" ex U-2540 that was scuttled 1945... It was refloated 1957 and put back into Service till 1983. Now a floating museum in Bremerhaven ........

[@namewarvergeben]

Worth a visit, along with the rest of the museum and the other ships! But note that the ships are separate from the museum, charge their own entrance fees, and are only open from March till November

[@brendanohara9354]

I live in Chicago but trust me when I say I am not biased. The Chicago U-boat is one of a thousand cool exhibits you can within the Museum of Science and Industry. The museum ALONE is well worth the visit but the submarine is breathtaking. We are but ants walking beneath a long dead giant. If you visit Chicago, there is a museum/golfcourse/restaurant in Wheaton called Cantingy that has 20ish tanks spanning from WW1 to Iraq that you are allowed to climb on top of and mess around. The World Wars exhibit lets you walk through the trenches of WW1 and sit in a room that feels like a Normandy landing craft. The tour of the mansion of the owner who died back in the late 19th century(?) is amazing as well. Also outside of Kenosha Wisconsin, there's a military museum with a bunch of decommissioned military aircraft and tanks. Plus there are a bunch of WW2 planes at the bottom of Lake Michigan. I might be biased but I don't care. Chicago is a pretty neat place

[@GarryShepherdDreamGazePostPunk]

Gosh i never realised just how big these subs were! Thank you👍🔥🔥

[@EarlTheWhiteNinja]

Hey Mike great video as always! Hope you and the crew had a merry Christmas and have a happy New Year. I also had a video suggestion: NUMA and their contributions to maritime history. It's actually really incredible how many shipwrecks they've found, from the Hunley, to the Mary Celeste, even U20. I think it would be an amazing video and you should definitely check it out. Once again, happy New Year!

[@chrisnielsen4425]

I remember seeing the U-505 when I was a kid. It was amazing. Definitely worth a stop if you're in the area!

[@TheSaneHatter]

As the scion of an Illinois family, who’s paid many a visit to Chicago and its museums, I can vouch for the merits of seeing U-505….and I have to *remind* myself that, as an Australian, it’s less familiar to you. In fact, Chicago has quite a few museums and similar attractions worth seeing: the Field Museum, the Adler Planetarium, and the Shedd Aquarium are all great, nerdy fun.

[@Armada-1935]

I’ve been on the U-505, the only non-Gato/Balao class submarine I’ve been on 😊

[@snuggfitt6490]

Excellent. Thank you.

[@mnhoss2100]

Great video as always sir

[@eddmorrell90]

Hi Mike, I really like your videos! The detail you go into is awe inspiring! Keep up the good work mate👍

[@WarMysteries]

Very nicely presented, and informative. What more could you ask for? We do love a Uboat!

[@zackdemundo]

The U505 at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago is a required visit for all school children in the area. Been twice. Fascinating.

[@cesarefiderio1634]

Interessante documentario, a carattere altamente istruttivo.

[@starwars22221]

I used to live in Chicago, and as such ive been to see the U-505 a few times. It really is a site to see, i highly recommend it, and the onboard tour!

[@jasonz7788]

Great video thank you

[@itzfreya55]

Great video like always, Mike! I’ll be honest, don’t know too much about subs, but watching the video as really piqued my interest. Would you have any recommendations for further reading on them and the way they were built? I’d love to learn some more!!

[@OceanlinerDesigns]

Thanks Freya! Its a really big book but Das Boot is one of the best novels about submarines of all time! They made a great movie in the 80s which I'd also recommend. It was such an awful environment - 50 guys packed into a tiny tincan, bombed from above in the middle of the ocean. I think something like 30,000 of 40,000 German submarine crew in WW2 didn't make it. Fascinating stuff and Das Boot is really gripping (both book and movie!) :) ~Mike

[@johnstreet797]

You might enjoy the directors cut of the movie "Das boot"

[@itzfreya55]

@@OceanlinerDesigns Thanks so much for the recommendation, i’ll make sure to check them out! ❤️

[@j_taylor]

I enjoyed I.J. Galantin's book "Take Her Deep", an account of war in the Pacific on a US sub. He describes everyday life, combat, and some of the hijinks his crew got up to.

[@tillneumann406]

@@johnstreet797 While the director's cut is great, I must say I prefer the TV version (the film was co-produced by public German TV stations - there was no private TV in Germany at the time). It consists of 6 episodes at about 52 minutes each and was also shown by the BBC in the 80s. Some will certainly find the extra material boring. But I like it especially BECAUSE it contains several passages of endless ennui while U 96 is waiting for the next prey or while she's sitting on the ocean floor waiting to finally return to the surface. Those are the moments when I can relate most to what a miserable life it must have been being part of the crew, with the added thread of becoming a sort of sitting duck when resurfacing at the wrong time and joining the other 75 per cent of U-boat sailors in oblivion.

[@simjo59]

Yes, the submarine at the Chicago Museum of Science & Industry is worth a look. You can even tour the interior.

[@johntenpas70]

Hey Mike (and others) when you go to Chicago to see U-505, swing up to Muskegon, Michigan (just a few hours away) to see the USS Silversides too! I got to sleep overnight on it when I was a teen, and that was an incredible experience!

[@joeblough4605]

Great video Mike. You really should go see 505 in Chicago, it's spectacular.

[@michaelreiter9410]

The Bundesmarine indeed used two recovered subs for training purposes under the names of U-Hai and U-Hecht.

[@inuit2winit]

I've lived in Sunderland my whole life and never heard about UB-110, that's very cool

[@rustynail7609]

Great video. 👍

[@seanrafajko]

I live in Chicago and would be happy to host to go visit the U505!

[@danielkarmy4893]

I wish I could remember Lightoller as a gentleman and a hero; the unfortunate reality is that he was, in all likelihood, an absolute monster of a creature.

[@ronjon7942]

You never want to really meet your heroes. You find out there just human.

[@glenns5627]

Personally I'd like to see a report of the Chicago U-boat from you! With your usual thorough technical knowledge and research, I'm sure it'd be a fascinating video. There are, as well, tours available of WWII U.S. submarines in both Hawaii and on the Texas coast, both of which I've seen. The Hawaiian tour was quite memorable as the vessel was in incredible shape, including typical supplies, and featured (at that time) a "self-guided" tour from head-phones and a cassette tape, voiced by the last captain.

[@king_br0k]

Definitely recommend visiting u 505, it is in an amazing exhibit

[@TeachinTV]

What @PhyllisJerry said. The U-505 is in splendid condition, almost new. You are allowed to poke around the interior. Mike, I suggest you go to Chicago and poke around that wonderful museum ship while you're able. All you need is your passport, right? Oh, and the entry fee is nominal.

[@setituptoblowitup]

It's great when History doesn't have to be a mystery.

[@AuoraWolf5911]

2:02 If you see the U boat that has a 20 on it thats SM U-20 that sunk the RMS Lusitania

[@timwatson3879]

U-505 was always outside in the elements as I was growing up in Chicago, in 2004 they built a new cavern for it, and moved it inside. It is a great exhibit! ( Great model of the Leviathan there too - about 15 feet long )

[@scottowens1535]

Well done young sir. Always great talking about sunken the u-boat. Predator those. Taking many big ships and their crew. Smart as all get-up but dastardly so! ...

[@patchmack4469]

nicely written and researched Mike they say education is a wonderful thing, of course i'm 57 and tend to disagree - in an age now of computers and youtube, i was amazed to see and in fact only recently found that a German sub had been washed up on a nearby beach at Hastings, crazily high up as well, i knew nothing of this, never had i heard of its existence when i did history at school, or know of it from local museums you got to love the digital age, in fact i also found many photographs of aircraft that i flew in while in the air cadets, images i was not allowed to take while in the cadets