I just finished reading a book I picked up in the airport called Shadow Divers. It's nominally about these dudes who discover a WWII German U-boat that was sunk off the coast of New Jersey during the war at some point. Lots of trips to Germany and visits in deep water to find out what sub it was. Nova did a show about it. (If you read the pages at that link, you spoil about 75% of the book.) Ridley Scott is making a movie about it. That probably explains why it was among the limited selection of books at the tiny post-security gift shop at the Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport.

So anyway, I was poking around the web looking at U-boat stuff. I really need to get p to Chicago to see the U-505. Be awfully cool to walk around inside a U-boat. I've already been up to the USS Pampanito at Fisherman's Wharf, and had a really good time banging my head on things inside it. Having the European perspective on WWII submarines would be interesting.