Posted by Dean on July 30, 2017 at 12:28:04 from (68.50.160.151):
Borrowing a page from United States Navy Veteran, Ultradog, I'm posting about the USS Indianapolis, a Portland Class heavy cruiser that was torpedoed and sunk on this day in 1945. She was on her way from Guam to Leyte after making a high speed run from San Francisco to Pearl, a record that stands to this day, and further to Tinian to deliver parts and about half of the world's supply of Uranium-235 that would be used to assemble Little Boy, the atomic bomb that would be detonated over Hiroshima a few days later.
To this day, the sinking of the USS Indianapolis and subsequent loss of life of the sinking survivors before they were rescued four days later, remains the single largest loss of life at sea of the United States Navy.
It's a tragic story of bureaucratic SNAFUS that resulted in most of the lives lost.
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