U-505 Extended Experience

What a treat to have Bill Kurtis do the narration! Growing up in Chicago, I remember Bill’s tenure at WBBM Ch 2 in Chicago. Truly Bill Kurtis is Chicago’s Very Own!…..Mark

A wonderful presentation that really makes world war 2 very easy to understand for people of all ages really. This should be mandatory viewing in all United States history classes

One of my favorite phrases regarding the Battle of the Atlantic is how the "Hunter became the Hunted". That phrase is used in every single u-boat documentary, as it is absolutely perfect.

I remember my dad taking me as a young boy to go on tour through the U-505 when it was parked outside the museum some time in the mid to late 1950s.

Just visited and toured it this past weekend. Wonderful experience and great to have it preserved. Our tour guide was a real pro, too.

We can learn from the old men once enemy's. Learn from our past for a better tommrow

In 1942, another ship also captured a sinking U-Boat: U-559. Tow men were trapped after handing the codebooks to the men above and went down with the sub. The British ship, Bulldog, caught the first Enigma in 1941, so don't trust the movie, "U-571"- they lie and say the US was first. No doubt the heroes in this film had every reason to fear boarding that sub-, but they volunteered anyway. No wonder they needed booze afterward! You are right to mention UBlock Origin (above in description)- I NEVER have ads or security problems with it and you do nothing at all- it just WORKS! These men are such heroes, and this was done so well, especially having Bill Curtis narrate. The photos of the many smiling men & women were wonderful, too.

no idea why you only have 195 subscribers. This was very enjoyable.

Thank You so much for a fine presentation!

Thank you, excellent video, JV

That's an incredible video. Having the first hand accounts in it blew me away. Who would go into a likely mined sinking enemy sub??!? Sorry I have to sit this one out. Men like that are what makes America great.

Thanks, enjoyed it!

I had the hornor to be a Corpsman assigned to Adm Gallery and he signed a few of his books. He is truly a hero. I toured his 505 in Chigago. Why was the Brishe flag showed? Enemies became friend. Only governements is are the anemy

an enigma machine and codes that were captured early in the war by the British. This worked for a whil until DO The gloom was only lifted after the seizing of a U-boat, U-559, with her codebooks on 30 October 1942, 75 years ago, enabled Bletchley Park to break the code once again.

We will never surrender Churchill said. But to be an island helped England to resist. Without that England would have surrendered like everybody else.

I don't know it if was true or not, but I read in a local history book about The American fortifications on the Island of Newfoundland (then, a British colony, not yet part of Canada) A German sub ran into trouble right in front of the fort and were forced to surface in plain view in broad day light on a nice sunny day for about 20 minutes to fix a problem on board. They knew the gun installments were there and assumed they were dead men and couldn't believe they weren't fired at during the ordeal. As it turns out, to save money, during clear weather, the fort didn't run radar equipment and just relied on visual scanning. So basically, nobody was looking! probably playing cards or something! Hahaha

It wasn't because the allies had captured the enigma machine that they could read Germany's mail but they had learned how to solve the settings of the keys thereby get the plain text messages. The Enigma machine by itself was worthless.

I had forgotten the number of the sub. I thought it 565. This group commander took a lot of hell for this. What he didn't know was that the Allies had already captured the Enigma machine.

So no mention of how it got to Chicago?

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