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This is the 60th anniversary. On May 8, 1945, the United States celebrated Victory in Europe. On Aug. 6, 1945, the Enola Gay, a B-29 Superfortress taking off from the island of Tinian, leveled Hiroshima with the world's first uranium bomb. On Aug. 14, 1945, came Victory over Japan Day. This year also marks the 60th anniversary of the sinking of the heavy cruiser that transported parts for the atomic bomb to Tinian, the USS Indianapolis. Few knew then what happened - or why - to the Indianapolis, a flagship in the Fifth Fleet and veteran of the attack on...

COLLEGE STATION -- Two Texas A&M University researchers have found the wreckage of a fleet of Japanese submarines that terrorized U.S. ships throughout World War II, including the one that sank the USS Indianapolis. Only 316 of the 1,196 men on the Indianapolis survived the sinking and shark-infested waters after the ship was torpedoed in July 1945. It was America's worst wartime loss at sea. The Navy used explosives to sink that Japanese submarine and 23 others in April 1946 to prevent the former Soviet Union from taking advantage of the technological equipment they contained. The location of the wreckage...

Congress Vindicates Capt. McVay By Dina Badaluco Washington, D.C., Oct. 31 -- Fifty-five years after the sinking of the USS Indianapolis in the waning days of World War II, Congress and President Clinton have cleared the ship's captain, Charles Butler McVay III, of any wrongdoing in the Navy's worst wartime disaster. In a "Sense of Congress" resolution attached to the massive annual Defense Department Authorization Bill, Congress stated that the Navy withheld critical information and assistance that could have saved the Indianapolis and its crew. It also explicitly said that McVay was not responsible for the ship's sinking or for...

Dear Lord, There's a young man far from home, called to serve his nation in time of war; sent to defend our freedom on some distant foreign shore. We pray You keep him safe, we pray You keep him strong, we pray You send him safely home ... for he's been away so long. There's a young woman far from home, serving her nation with pride. Her step is strong, her step is sure, there is courage in every stride. We pray You keep her safe, we pray You keep her strong, we pray You send her safely home...