Take a look inside the only remaining German submarine captured by the US during World War II

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The U-505 submarine served 12 patrols and sank eight enemy boats before the US Navy captured it. The U-boat is now on display at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science and Industry. Visitors can walk through its control room and bunks that held space for its crew of 59 men.

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00:00Business Insider got to tour the only remaining German submarine captured by the U.S. during World War II.

00:06Let's take a look inside. At 252 feet long, the U-505 is nearly as long as a city block.

00:13Atop the submarine sits the conning tower, used for navigation, protection, and observation.

00:19This one is covered in bullet holes.

00:21Here you can see a room where sailors slept next to a torpedo.

00:24For men who lived in this room, the torpedo would double as a dining table.

00:28The U-505 carried 22 torpedoes on board.

00:32Here you can see a narrow kitchen galley. Only one person could fit in here at a time.

00:37The cooks only had three hot plates and an oven the size of a small air fryer.

00:42When the U-505 was on patrol, it carried 12 tons of food, since they could be on sea for over 100 days at a time.

00:49The radio room served as the submarine's nerve center for communication to the outside world, packed with dials, switches, and wires.

00:57There were also several notebooks on display.

00:59These sailors would calculate how to fire a torpedo with just a pen and paper.

01:04The U.S. captured the U-505 on June 4th.

01:07The U.S. captured the U-505 on June 4th.

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