In 1982, members from the US Navy's Task Group 22.3 reunited with members of the German submarine's crew in Chicago, marking the first time the German sailors saw the U-boat since the war.

Over eight decades ago, the US Navy made the historic capture of a Nazi U-boat during World War II. A treasure trove of vital German intelligence, the submarine's capture was top-secret. See inside ...

UC-97 became probably the only German submarine sunk within the continental ... in Lake Michigan a few miles east of Chicago. Post-war, the U.S. Navy began applying lessons learned, from ...