does anybody know if they have found the USS INDIANAPOLIS? who would have such info? thanks ltb7733
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does anybody know if they have found the USS INDIANAPOLIS? who would have such info? thanks ltb7733
Have you tried a web search for it? Alot of times the ex-crew start web sites to keep in touch with each other. This is the way I have been keeping up with the status of the USS Oriskiny. Of which I have heard that it will be June 25 before they sink it. Good luck.
I believe that the USS INDIANAPOLIS was sunk in route from delivering the Atomic bomb material. They were something like two weeks overdue before someone realized that something was very wrong. To give it perspective this was the story that was told aboard the boat in the Jaws movie. Bone Chilling Story! To my understanding she was sunk in Deep water.
Websites: http://www.ussindianapolis.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indianapolis
Good Luck, Andrew
I was just looking at something and saw this. There is an entire page- I have just taken a small snippit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Ind...is_%28CA-35%29
Text:
After delivering her top secret cargo at Tinian, Indianapolis was dispatched to Guam where she disembarked men and reported for onward routine to Leyte. From there she was to report to Vice Admiral Jesse B. Oldendorf for further duty off Okinawa. Departing Guam on 28 July, Indianapolis proceeded by a direct route, unescorted. Early in the morning, at 00:15 on 30 July 1945, two heavy explosions occurred against her starboard side forward, and she capsized and sank in twelve minutes, at 12°2′ N, 134°48′ E. Indianapolis had been hit by two torpedoes from the Japanese submarine I-58, Commander Machitsura Hashimoto in command.