Class Trip Michele SorkinScott SchafferMatt Lightfoot

Computers and TechnologyEDU 504 NP

Holy Family UniversityDr. Herman

March 1, 2005

The Museum of Science and Industry

57th Street and Lake Shore DriveChicago, IL 60637

The Museum• Admission

Free to Illinois Students, and one chaperone per ten students

●TransportationFree bus

● LunchStudents will pack lunch

U-505 Submarine Visit

Purpose•To see the U-505 submarine exhibit

•To learn about WWII naval warfare, and the role of the U-505 submarine class

•To enable students to have a hands on learning experience

•To learn about the significance of the capture of a naval vessel

The History of the U-505• In 1944, the United States Navy USS

Guadalcanal Task Group 22.3’s captured the U-505 submarine off the coast of Africa

• The U-505 was the only German submarine captured by the U.S. Navy during World War II and the code books seized from the submarine greatly assisted the Allied effort

• The U-505 is a National Historic Landmark, the only U-boat of its type in the United States and the only Type IX-C submarine left in the world

Student Favorites

•Control Room

•Conning Tower

•Engine Room

•Torpedo Storage

•Enigma Machine

Control Room

•Nerve center of the ship•Two Planesmen•Navigational maps•Radar•Periscope Column•Main confrontational room during takeover

Conning Tower

• Two periscopes• Speaking tubes• Above Control Room

Engine Rooms•Two diesel engines•Deafening noise•Extremely hot•Surface running only•Recharged batteries

•Two electrical engines•Ran on battery power•Slower than diesel •Underwater running•Desalinization machine

Torpedo Rooms•Bow and Stern•Stored food and parts•Crew members shared bunks•Emergency steering•Stored ten torpedoes per room

Enigma Machine•Purpose for the mission•Two machines

•Experimental•Normal

•Decoded messages

Completely assembled German message: AUF BEFEHL DES OBERSTEN BEFEHLSHABERS SIND IM FALLE X Z X ZT X UNWAHRSCHEINLICHEN X FRANZOESISQEN ANGRIFFS DIE WESTBEFESTIGUNGEN JEDER ZAHLENMAESSIGEN UEBERLEGENHEIT ZUM TROTZ ZU HALTEN X English translation: The Commander-in-Chief orders as follows: In the case of French attacks on the western fortifications, although unlikely at this moment, those fortifications must be held at all costs, even against numerically superior forces.

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Thank you for your support!

Michele, Matt, Scott

All photos courtesy of www.msichicago.org