Re: U-505

>--- Dick Schlaff <[email protected]> wrote:
>>  The German submarine, U-505, that was captured on
>>  June 6,1944 and ultimately displayed outside the
>>  Chicago Museum of Science and Industry has been
>>  closed for several months.  In the interest of
>>  preservation it's now been moved to an underground,
>>  climate-controlled space.  A new exhibit is
>>  scheduled to open "in Spring 2005".  The $35-million
>>  dollar, 35 000-square-foot exhibit will include one
>>  of the two Enigma machines captured from the boat.
>>  For more information visit
>>  www.msichicago.org/exhibit/U505.
>>
>
>What a waste of money ! IMHO

Not at all. U-505 deserves preservation and support as one of
Chicago's major cultural attractions, along with Wrigley Field and
Soldier Field and Marshall Field. Chicago is unmatched in its Fields.

Harry Joseph
NYC


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