67 years ago today...

Tabnabs

USS Indianapolis was sunk by the Japanese submarine I-58. Due to communications and other errors, her loss went unnoticed until survivors were seen from a passing aircraft on 2 August.

Drifting helplessly for 4 days in the tropical sun with little to no food or fresh water, nearly 600 men perished due to severe dehyration, dementia, repeated shark attack, and injuries sustained in the Japanese attack. When the last of the survivors were finally pulled from the water on August 3, only 317 of the original 1,196 crew were still alive.

Four days before the sinking by a Japanese sub, she had delivered the firing mechanism and uranium-235 material for the first atomic bomb dropped over Hiroshima.

She was the last American warship sunk in World War II.

tricky D

Obligatory clip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9S41Kplsbs

johngalway

Beat me to it TD Great piece of film history that scene.

Unbelievable what that crew had to go through after the sinking of the Indianapolis.

who the fug

Must have been the only court martial in history that the enemy Commander gave evidence in , use to be a good TV film about this with Stacy Keach