Re: U-505

--- Harry Joseph <[email protected]> wrote:
> >--- 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
>
I have visited the museum several times and also seen
the U-boot. INtersting, yes. BUT:
preservation is one thing, Spending 35 million dlrs
is another. IMHO. There has to be more worthy causes
for that kind of money.
73  rag