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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