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https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...a21a8e006ab_story.html?utm_term=.ba4fb995c0a3
this is the ship that was referenced in the movie Jaws.
The ship was found almost 3 1/2 miles below the surface of the Philippine Sea
The Indianapolis had just completed a top secret mission to deliver components of the atomic bomb “Little Boy” to the island of Tinian. The bomb was later dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
About 800 of the crew’s 1,200 sailors and Marines made it off the cruiser before it sank. But almost 600 of them died over the next four to five days from exposure, dehydration, drowning and shark attacks. Nineteen crew members are alive today, the Navy command said in a news release.
this is the ship that was referenced in the movie Jaws.
The ship was found almost 3 1/2 miles below the surface of the Philippine Sea
The Indianapolis had just completed a top secret mission to deliver components of the atomic bomb “Little Boy” to the island of Tinian. The bomb was later dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
About 800 of the crew’s 1,200 sailors and Marines made it off the cruiser before it sank. But almost 600 of them died over the next four to five days from exposure, dehydration, drowning and shark attacks. Nineteen crew members are alive today, the Navy command said in a news release.
