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    U-505 is a German Type IXC submarine built for Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. It was captured by the United States Navy on 4 June 1944 and...
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  • from U-110 in the North Atlantic in May 1941, seven months before the United States entered the war and three years before the US Navy captured U-505 and...
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  • Peter Zschech (category U-boat commanders (Kriegsmarine))
    1918 – 24 October 1943) was the second commander of the German submarine U-505. He earned notoriety as the first commanding officer to commit suicide while...
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    Task Group 22.3, a hunter-killer group which captured the German submarine U-505 in 1944. Guadalcanal was built using a converted United States Maritime...
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    command. U-534 is one of only four German World War II submarines in preserved condition remaining in the world, the others being the IXC boat U-505 in Chicago's...
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    U-167 U-168 U-169 U-170 U-183 U-184 U-185 U-186 U-187 U-188 U-189 U-190 U-191 U-192 U-193 U-194 U-525 U-526 U-527 U-528 U-529 U-530 U-531 U-532 U-533...
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    most notable exhibits are a full-size replica coal mine, German submarine U-505 captured during World War II, a United Airlines Boeing 727, the first streamlined...
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    fighting U-boats during the Battle of the Atlantic, where his most notable achievement was the June 4, 1944 capture of the German submarine U-505. After...
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    Aeroflot Flight U-505 crashed just after takeoff in Tashkent on 13 April 1987. Flight 505 was an early morning flight from Tashkent to Shahrisabz, both...
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    boat's capture secret. U-505 was towed 2,500 miles to Bermuda and revealed some of the German Navy's most guarded secrets. The U-505 is now permanently displayed...
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    Medal of Honor for his role in helping to capture the German submarine U-505, off the coast of French West Africa in June 1944. Born in Maryville, Missouri...
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    published and/or developed by 505 Games. "Remedy Entertainment signs a co-development and co-publishing agreement with 505 Games for Control 2". Remedy...
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  • American World War II veteran who was a member of the U.S. Navy crew that captured the German submarine U-505, in 1944. This was the first time that the US Navy...
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    147 Binney, pp.148–149 Binney, p.148 Binney, p.146 Messenger, p. 55 "Empire U, V W, Y, Z". World Ship Society. Retrieved 1 September 2010. "Elder Dempster...
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    by German U-boats during WWII". German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net. Retrieved May 6, 2013. Savas, Theodore P. (2004). Hunt and Kill: U-505 and the Battle...
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    of U-boat U-505. USS Joyce (DE-317) Participated in the sinking of U-boat U-550. USS Peterson (DE-152) Also participated in the sinking of U-boat U-550...
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    Atlantic Theater. This exhibit details convoy protection, the capture of U-505, the breaking of the German Enigma code, and the role of the Merchant Marine...
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  • "505" is a song by English rock band Arctic Monkeys. Written by lead singer and frontman Alex Turner and produced by James Ford and Mike Crossey, it is...
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    hurled a barrage of hedgehogs at a U-boat. A second attack by Chatelain, this time with depth charges, holed U-505's outer hull and forced her to surface...
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    U-995 View of the bow Starboard view List of submarine museums SM U-1 U-505 U-534 U-2540 Merchant ship tonnages are in gross register tons. Military vessels...
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    well-planned and executed operation, her group captured intact German submarine U-505. The only capture by American forces of a German submarine on the high seas...
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  • Archive documents regarding these U-boat POWs are housed in the archives. A copy of Captain Harold Lange's log of the U-505's voyage can be found in the archives...
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    in 2011 Wilhelm Bauer, panoramic view SM U-1 U-505 U-534 U-995 Helgason, Guðmundur. "Rudolf Schultze". German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net. Retrieved 23...
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    HMS Graph, and U-505 which was captured by elements of the United States Navy in a task force commanded by then-Captain Daniel V. Gallery. U-505 currently...
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    obliged to withdraw because of an apparent U-boat sighting, leaving several hundred men to their fate. A U-boat and a German weathership rescued five...
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  • List of films about mathematicians Ultra (cryptography) German submarine U-505 - A captured submarine - now on display in Chicago - that yielded an Enigma...
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    grandson of the captain of the ship which captured her. U-505 U-570, later HMS Graph U-744 U-1024 Gröner 1991, p. 68. Sebag-Montefiore, Hugh (2011). "13...
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    Operation Deadlight (category U-boats)
    commandeered by Japan. U-181 was renamed I-501, U-195 – I-506, U-219 – I-505, U-862 – I-502, and two other boats, U-511 and U-1224, had been sold to Japan...
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  • first United States warship sunk during World War II. U-552 was driven off by the escort; but U-567 found the convoy that afternoon. Task Unit 4.1.3 handed...
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  • German submarine U-864 was a Type IXD2 U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine in World War II. On 9 February 1945, she became the only submarine in history...
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