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
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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.


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