[Milsurplus] [skcc] OT - some COD move pictures

[Bill KA8VIT]

Hi Tom,

Name here is Bill.

That German sub is the U-505, a type IXC.

It is now house underground at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.

73 - Bill KA8VIT



> On 06/15/2021 4:47 PM Tom NB5Q <tknorris0001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>  
> Very interesting Larry! Nice pictures. I look forward to working you while
> you're operating on the COD! I was AF but have a lot of respect for the
> mariners.
> Maybe someone can revive my memory of submarines. In the early 1950's, my
> Dad and Mom took me with them to an IBEW national gathering in Chicago from
> SE Ohio (Athens-Ohio University). While in Chicago (I think about 1950 or
> 1952) we passed a German submarine being towed on the highway (I think on
> the highway, not lake Michigan?). My old memory says the German submarine
> was captured during WWII. Does anyone from the area remember that German
> submarine, is it still on display somewhere? I have wished many times I
> could go back and ask questions of my parents and grandfather, who was I b.
> 1874 and died 1973. Also my uncle, W8PGQ, licensed from the 1920's on. My
> grandfather would have grown up with the Civil War veterans and had a lot
> of stories to tell.
> Thanks, Tom NB5Q
> 

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Bill Chaikin, KA8VIT
Chief Radio Operator
WW2 Submarine USS COD SS-224 (NECO)
USS COD Amateur Radio Club - W8COD

ka8vit at ka8vit.com
http://ka8vit.com
http://www.usscod.org
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