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Those who didn\'t drown had to deal with the effects of dehydration, starvation, and exposure, but while those conditions were terrible enough, the most notorious aspect of the Story was the presence of sharks, and the seemingly random nature in which they.
After the call to abandon ship and distress signals were sent out, nearly 900 men found themselves in the water, but the Navy remained unaware of the fate of the Indianapolis, so the survivors would end up spending over 4 days adrift at sea.
Torpedo attacks sank the ship within 15 minutes of the encounter, and about 300 men went down with the ship, but unfortunately, the trials and tribulations were just starting for the survivors.
In July 1945, the cruiser and its crew of nearly 1, 200 delivered parts for the first atomic bomb to an air base at Tinian, but due to a chain of events and miscommunication, the cruiser veered into the path of a Japanese submarine shortly after midnight on July 30.
The USS Indianapolis had been launched nearly 15 years earlier, and it had already survived kamikaze attacks while fighting the Japanese.
However, few of the ships lost in the Pacific suffered a fate as gripping or tragic as the Sinking of the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis on July 30, 1945.
Kennedy\'s PT-109, a patrol boat with a crew of less than 15.
Lewis Haynes The United States lost hundreds of ships During the course of World War II, from the deadly explosion of the USS Arizona During the attack on Pearl Harbor to the Sinking of John F.
As I landed on the deck I thought, \'I\'ve got to get the hell out of here \'" - Dr.
Then the second explosion knocked me down again.
I hit the edge of the bunk, hit the deck, and stood up.
A torpedo had detonated under my room.
I saw a bright light before I felt the concussion of the explosion that threw me up in the air almost to the overhead.
I was in the air.
Includes pictures Includes accounts by survivors Includes a bibliography for further reading Includes a table of contents "I awoke
