The Eagle is a prize of war. She wasn’t captured on the high seas & boarded like the U-505, but get this:
There hasn’t been a peep out of postwar Germany about the Eagle, but they have a standing demand that they want the U-505 returned to Germany even though it was captured in combat (first “Away all boarders!” command by a U.S. captain since the War of 1812).
When the U-505 was being restored at the Chicago Museum of Science & Industry, German suppliers who had originally fitted her out assisted in the restoration while protesting, “That’s our U-Boat and we want it back but we’ll at least fit her out properly so you thieving Amis can see what real German workmanship is like!!”
My heart sank when I saw what they did to that vessel at the museum. They cut mammoth holes in it to make it a walk-in exhibit. If you want to see a submarine, go through the hatch like God intended.
Thank you for that tidbit of history education.