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.

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 ...

A treasure trove of vital German intelligence, the submarine's capture was top-secret. See inside the U-boat, now a permanent exhibit at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science and Industry. Submarine ...