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USS Indianapolis sunk on July 30, 1945. Newly revealed photos from the ship being digitized.
U.S. Naval Institute ^ | July 30, 2014 | U.S. Naval Institute

Posted on 07/30/2014 10:09:37 AM PDT by Saint X

In the closing days of World War II, torpedoes from a Japanese submarine slammed into the side of USS Indianapolis and doomed the heavy cruiser. The sailors who didn’t drown were left adrift on the open ocean for four days during which they battled the elements, starvation and shark attacks. Fewer than 320 from the ship’s original crew of 1,196 survived.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: history; indianapolis; navy; ussindianapolis; wwii
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To: Boogieman
Apparently they did two takes of that scene, one with Shaw sober, and one with Shaw drunk
My understanding of that scene is that Shaw wasn't able to perform the day the scene was scheduled. Loaded.
The next day he came in with a nasty hangover, but knocked the scene out of the park.
21 posted on 07/30/2014 11:17:17 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Billthedrill

Watch later mark


22 posted on 07/30/2014 11:20:51 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: oh8eleven
The next day he came in with a nasty hangover, but knocked the scene out of the park.

The masters of their craft seem to have that ability. Some call it the Right Stuff.

23 posted on 07/30/2014 11:24:12 AM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: gaijin
I saw a youtube video about a year ago, that showed a Crossing the Line ceremony aboard the Indianapolis, it was back in the late 30's.

I'll see if I can find it. I often wonder how many of the men on the video went down with that ship.

24 posted on 07/30/2014 11:25:05 AM PDT by mware
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To: All

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtGRwkvXxD0


25 posted on 07/30/2014 11:28:22 AM PDT by mware
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To: Saint X

“I’ll never wear a life jacket again...”

—Quint


26 posted on 07/30/2014 11:29:11 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: mware

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYTqM51bJz0


27 posted on 07/30/2014 11:36:06 AM PDT by mware
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To: longfellow

FWIW, after I caught a white tip off Maui, I did a little research:

Famed oceanographic researcher Jacques Cousteau described the oceanic whitetip as “the most dangerous of all sharks”. Despite the greater notoriety of the great white shark and other sharks habitually found nearer the shore, the oceanic whitetip is responsible for more fatal attacks on humans than all other species combined, as a result of predation on survivors of shipwrecks or downed aircraft. Such incidents are not included in common shark-attack indices for the 20th and 21st centuries, and as a result of this, the oceanic whitetip does not have the highest number of recorded incidents. Nonetheless, incidents involving the oceanic whitetip total in the thousands worldwide, with one incident alone, the torpedoing of USS Indianapolis on 30 July 1945, alleged to have accounting for 600 to 800 sailors, though the most reportedly died from exposure to the elements rather than from shark attacks.


28 posted on 07/30/2014 11:38:49 AM PDT by Zman (Liberals: denying reality since Day One.)
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To: Saint X; All

http://www.amazon.com/Harms-Way-Indianapolis-Extraordinary-Survivors/dp/0805073663

An Outstanding Book!


29 posted on 07/30/2014 11:41:24 AM PDT by jimmyo57
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To: mware

Video on post 27, shows FDR standing up, attending Shellback Ceremony on USS Indianapolis.


30 posted on 07/30/2014 11:41:38 AM PDT by mware
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To: NFHale
"All those good men, God rest their souls... but by delivering that bomb to Tinian, they helped speed the end of the war, saving hundreds of thousands of lives."

Millions.

31 posted on 07/30/2014 11:54:00 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: doorgunner69
Some call it the Right Stuff.

Don't you mean the "Right Sauce?" So many actors seem to have had 'dependency problems' that you wonder if it ties in with their predilection towards acting. A good comedic take on the subject was the movie "My Favorite Year" starring Peter O'Toole, who was probably playing himself much of the time.

32 posted on 07/30/2014 11:55:53 AM PDT by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: oh8eleven

I did some checking and it seems Spielberg backs up that version. So, they did do two takes, but only used the sober (hungover) version.

Here’s an interesting tidbit that I found from the interview:

“But then when I showed the script to my friend John Milius, John said, ‘Can I take a crack at this speech?’ and John wrote a 10-page monologue that was absolutely brilliant, but out-sized for the Jaws I was making! But it was brilliant and then Robert Shaw took the speech and Robert did the cut down … Robert took a crack at the speech and he brought it down to five pages.”

So one of the few right-wingers in Hollywood, John Milius (Red Dawn) wrote the original version of the Indianapolis speech!


33 posted on 07/30/2014 11:58:34 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Eaker

Ping for later.


34 posted on 07/30/2014 12:09:09 PM PDT by Eaker (Dogs love to be hugged! Rescue and Hug One Today.)
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To: SES1066

“So many actors seem to have had ‘dependency problems’ that you wonder if it ties in with their predilection towards acting.”

Anything that removes inhibitions can be helpful if you are trying to be creative, so that is one reason not just actors, but all kinds of artists get drawn to the stuff. Unfortunately, for a lot of them, it becomes a crutch.


35 posted on 07/30/2014 12:18:52 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: lakeman
I can't remember where or what channel but it was a documentary. They know it wasn't great whites but they were convinced it was the bull shark. They were talking about the aggressiveness of them.
36 posted on 07/30/2014 12:27:31 PM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: NFHale
All those good men, God rest their souls.

Very much agree but there is a very dark echo to this story and that is the MIStreatment of the Captain of the USS Indianapolis, Charles Butler McVay III, by the Navy Department in making him the only ship captain courtmartialed for the actions leading to the loss of his ship out of 380 total! Although a USN destroyer had been sunk by the same Japanese submarine a few days earlier, the USS Indianapolis had not been informed. His conviction for failing to use evasion (Zip-Zag) techniques was also explainable by orders to make haste and steam direct to Leyte. Many still believe that he was made the fall-guy for a series of USN failures ranging from unreported SOS signals to failure to check for late arrival at Leyte.

While he committed suicide in 1968, his family and cremates (USS Indianapolis Survivors Organization) continued to agitate for reconsideration of his court-martial conviction. Yet in what appears to be the turning-point, it was a 12 year old school boy, Hunter Scott, who was in spired by the JAWS vignette and undertook a year-long research project that resulted in him testifying about the injustice before a US Congress Committee. In the year 2000, the US Congress passed a bill that was signed by President Clinton and in July 2001, the Secretary of the Navy ordered McVay's court-martial conviction expunged!

37 posted on 07/30/2014 12:35:19 PM PDT by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: Zman

I was just commenting to someone else on here about this documentary they did on either discovery or national geographic about these shark guys that believed it was the bull. I don’t remember how they came to that conclusion, all I know is it isn’t the way I want to go out. You’ll never strap a life jacket on me chiefy.


38 posted on 07/30/2014 12:35:58 PM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: lakeman
No I believe they were oceanic whitetips.

I wonder if anybody has gone back to the site on this anniversary to see if there is a congregation of sharks there. You know, like that well known fact of sharks patrolling the slave trade routes from Africa?

39 posted on 07/30/2014 12:39:28 PM PDT by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: Lower Deck

The .org rather than a .gov extention kinda gives it away.


40 posted on 07/30/2014 12:42:59 PM PDT by tanknetter
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