i did not know that so you might be right, do you think they no longer thought the dazzle worked/was worth it? now i gotta look for more pix
Posted on 08/19/2017 1:08:09 PM PDT by Riley
Great story! Thanks for the link!
I never get tired of that soliloquy. It’s utterly haunting.
I used to clean a mans oil furnace who survived this. It strikes me as ironic now...his name was Phillipine. He was Italian.
Was glad to read that the site, by law, is considered a gravesite and still U.S.N. property - which the location of must remain classified (though I doubt it will stay secret for long).
Dreyfus face is priceless
It had just been in dry dock just before the bomb run to Tinian island. It may gut have been repainted
“So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.”
My 5th birthday.
Pretty insensitive remark. The families, ex-shipmates, and many others still alive from the WWII era, remember the guys and officers from the Indianapolis.
You speak from youth, and from the leavings of the culture.
Almost everyone on the planet soon knew the story via that scene.
But historians and military buffs had and would have known the story without seeing ‘Jaws’.
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Including my late Dad—who flew a PBY Black Cat on open-ocean rescues—families and shipmates seldom spoke of the war. My Dad only mentioned a reunion, where some he had rescued tearfully hugged him. It's certainly possible he might not have known the ships' names!
Any survivors "sensitive to my remarks" would be in their 90s today.
As a student of WWII—and although I knew of the USS Indianapolis tragedy—I was reminded of the story from "Jaws", as it was recounted at a boating forum—in 2012.
I actually never saw the movie...! .
“...doll’s eyes....”
Cool guy from Michigan. We birth ‘em tough. Especially in Ironwood where the snow never stops.
You sure are wrong on that one. Doesn’t make you a bad person, just uninformed on this subject.
That movie “Men of Courage” made me angry. It was so bad, so PC that I simply couldn’t watch it, even though I purchased it to watch it. I didn’t make it past 15 minutes.
It made me angry, in the same way the movie “The Monuments Men” made me angry.
Both the story of the Indianapolis and the story of the Monuments Men were stories that America should know. And they Hollywood-ized them beyond all recognition.
They could have made good movies. But they injected all their stupid crap in both of them.
i did not know that so you might be right, do you think they no longer thought the dazzle worked/was worth it? now i gotta look for more pix
I could not finish that movie, it was disgustingly PC.
I am with you.
Like Hillary's.
https://news.usni.org/2017/08/19/uss-indianapolis-wreckage-found
Well, it reached a larger audience, but it was your verbatim statement “This would be unknown” that I took issue with.
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