In harm's way - the sinking of the USS Indianapolis
Year: 2001 Language: english Author: Doug Stanton Genre: Textbook Publisher: Henry Holt and Company, LLC Edition: First ISBN: 0-8050-6632-2 Format: PDF, EPUB Quality: Scanned pages Pages count: 376 Description: On July 30, 1945, after completing a top secret mission to deliver parts of the atom bomb "Little Boy," which would be dropped on Hiroshima, the battle cruiser USS Indianapolis was torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine. An estimated 300 men were killed upon impact; close to 900 sailors were cast into the Pacific Ocean, where they remained, undetected by the navy, for nearly five days. Battered by a savage sea, they struggled to survive, fighting off hypothermia, sharks, physical and mental exhaustion, and, finally, hallucinatory dementia. By the time rescue—which was purely accidental arrived, all but 321 men had lost their lives; 4 more would die in military hospitals shortly thereafter. The captain's subsequent and highly unusual court-martial left many questions unanswered: How did the navy fail to realize the Indianapolis was missing? Why was the cruiser traveling unescorted in enemy waters? And perhaps most amazing of all, how did these 317 men manage to survive? Additional info: PDF & EPUB https://seatracker.org/viewtopic.php?t=28242
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In harm's way - the sinking of the USS Indianapolis
Language: english
Author: Doug Stanton
Genre: Textbook
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company, LLC
Edition: First
ISBN: 0-8050-6632-2
Format: PDF, EPUB
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 376
Description: On July 30, 1945, after completing a top secret mission to deliver parts of
the atom bomb "Little Boy," which would be dropped on Hiroshima, the battle
cruiser USS Indianapolis was torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine. An estimated
300 men were killed upon impact; close to 900 sailors were cast into the Pacific Ocean,
where they remained, undetected by the navy, for nearly five days. Battered by a savage sea,
they struggled to survive, fighting off hypothermia, sharks, physical and mental exhaustion,
and, finally, hallucinatory dementia. By the time rescue—which was purely accidental
arrived, all but 321 men had lost their lives; 4 more would die in military hospitals shortly
thereafter.
The captain's subsequent and highly unusual court-martial left many questions unanswered:
How did the navy fail to realize the Indianapolis was missing? Why was the cruiser
traveling unescorted in enemy waters? And perhaps most amazing of all,
how did these 317 men manage to survive?
Additional info: PDF & EPUB
https://seatracker.org/viewtopic.php?t=28242
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