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Billionaire Paul Allen Finds Lost World War II Cruiser USS Indianapolis in the Philippine Sea
U.S. Naval Institute ^ | August 19, 2017 | Ben Werner

Posted on 08/19/2017 1:08:09 PM PDT by Riley

Seventy-two years after two torpedoes fired from a Japanese submarine sunk cruiser USS Indianapolis (CA-35), the ship’s wreckage was found resting on the seafloor on Saturday – more than 18,000 feet below the Pacific Ocean’s surface.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.usni.org ...


TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: abomb; hiroshima; manhattanproject; shipwreck; usnavy; ussindianapolis; wwii
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To: rockrr
Thanks for your post of that clip from Jaws. 😢
21 posted on 08/19/2017 1:37:38 PM PDT by LuvFreeRepublic ( #MAGA)
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To: fella

There was another cruiser that the Japs sank early in the war in the Dutch East Indies. It was nicked a ghost ship because the Japs had claimed to have sunk so many times and it kept returning to the fight. The survivors wound up building a railroad in Burma. when they were freed and returned home they were totally forgotten.

USS HOUSTON - sunk March 1, in Sunda Strait along with
HMAS PERTH. Ran into Japanese invasion fleet for Java


22 posted on 08/19/2017 1:38:14 PM PDT by njslim
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To: Riley

**Around 800 of the ship’s 1,196 sailors and Marines survived the sinking, but after four to five days in the water, suffering exposure, dehydration, drowning, and shark attacks, only 316 survived.**

If anyone ever wondered what it was like to be in the water after a enemy attack, I offer my Uncle Joe’s verbal account of what it was like after his ship the USS Juneau was hit. [The Juneau was the ship of the Sullivan Brothers tragedy.]

**TEN MEN OUT OF 700** is not a perfect piece of literature; it is what it is. I’m so glad we have his first hand account of what happened. God rest my Uncle Joe.


23 posted on 08/19/2017 1:38:26 PM PDT by Daffynition (The New PTSD: PRESIDENT-Trump Stress Disorder - The LSN didnÂ’t make Trump, so they can't break him)
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Forgot the link:

http://www.ussatlanta.com/stories/Juneasstoryfay.htm


24 posted on 08/19/2017 1:39:19 PM PDT by Daffynition (The New PTSD: PRESIDENT-Trump Stress Disorder - The LSN didnÂ’t make Trump, so they can't break him)
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To: laplata; Does so

You’re both right.

When John Milieus a history/military buff read a quote from a surviving crew member and dramatized it, gave the Indianapolis story international legs. 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’.


25 posted on 08/19/2017 1:41:39 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Riley

The UK Daily mail site has photos of the wreck. Amazing condition.


26 posted on 08/19/2017 1:46:18 PM PDT by MAGA2017
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To: Riley

Quite a remarkable history (especially the “Secret Mission” section) at this link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indianapolis_(CA-35)


27 posted on 08/19/2017 1:50:54 PM PDT by Mozzafiato
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To: Flag_This

I remember reading that Robert Shaw was drunk (he often was) the night they were to shoot that scene. He couldn’t get it right so Spielberg gave up and they all went back to their hotels for the night. The next morning they sat down to shoot that scene again and Shaw nailed it in one take.


28 posted on 08/19/2017 1:52:11 PM PDT by Artemis Webb (Maxine Waters for House Minority Leader!!)
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To: Riley

I honor the men of the USS Indianapolis for their honorable service, both those who survived and those who didn’t. Salute!

But with this discovery coming so close to other recent events, I wouldn’t be surprised for someone to claim they deserved it, for delivering the atomic bomb to Tinian Island.


29 posted on 08/19/2017 1:56:24 PM PDT by libertylover (In 2016 small-town America got tired of being governed by people who don't know a boy from a girl.)
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To: Michael.SF.

USS Indianapolis survivor: ‘That first morning, we had sharks’

Marine Corporal Edgar Harrell’s story can be found here:

http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2014/07/26/uss-indianapolis-survivor-first-morning-sharks/13207061/


30 posted on 08/19/2017 1:59:50 PM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: Artemis Webb
According to this article the speech was a sort of collaboration between three writers, including Shaw. However it was done, it's my favorite part of the movie.
31 posted on 08/19/2017 2:00:48 PM PDT by Flag_This (Liberals are locusts.)
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To: LuvFreeRepublic

You’re welcome. That scene really set the mood for the rest of the movie.


32 posted on 08/19/2017 2:02:30 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: BenLurkin

What a beautiful ship.


33 posted on 08/19/2017 2:04:06 PM PDT by moovova
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To: Riley
Wow. It should remain undisturbed. It's the final resting place of some 600 nay men.
34 posted on 08/19/2017 2:09:26 PM PDT by jmacusa (Dad may be in charge but mom knows whats going on.)
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To: rockrr

One of the best scenes in movie history.


35 posted on 08/19/2017 2:09:33 PM PDT by PLMerite ("Government should be done to cattle and not human beings." - John Milius)
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To: Daffynition

bttt


36 posted on 08/19/2017 2:11:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Does so
This would be unknown, except for the story re-told in the movie, “Jaws”.

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.
37 posted on 08/19/2017 2:13:12 PM PDT by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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To: Riley
Wow. It should remain undisturbed. It's the final resting place of some 600 Navy men.
38 posted on 08/19/2017 2:18:43 PM PDT by jmacusa (Dad may be in charge but mom knows whats going on.)
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To: Daffynition

Good story, thank you.


39 posted on 08/19/2017 2:25:59 PM PDT by RedMonqey ("Gun-free zones" equal "Target-rich environment.")
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To: Artemis Webb

I remember reading that Robert Shaw was drunk (he often was) the night they were to shoot that scene. He couldn’t get it right so Spielberg gave up and they all went back to their hotels for the night. The next morning they sat down to shoot that scene again and Shaw nailed it in one take.

...

He probably had more to drink. I also read he wrote that scene.


40 posted on 08/19/2017 2:28:35 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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