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In four pages this text that describes the 1945 torpedoing of this U.S. ship by the Japanese is examined. Two sources are listed in the bibliography.
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in World War II. The bombings of Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki that would put an exclamation point on this victory were only three weeks away. However, for
the 1200 naval crewmembers of the USS Indianapolis, it was business as usual, at least so to speak. Under the leadership of Charles Butler McVay III, they were about
to embark upon a mission so top secret that even the ships captain was unaware of the specifics. The Indianapolis was to leave San Francisco on July 16 headed
to Tinian in the Northern Marianas Islands to deliver parts for the Little Boy atomic bomb that was supposed to be dropped on the Hiroshima target. What actually unfolded
was a tale of horror, courage, survival, disgrace, and redemption of which most people remained unaware for more than three decades. Thankfully, due to the dogged research efforts of
investigative journalist Doug Stanton, details of the ships harrowing ordeal and its aftermath resurfaced in the riveting and poignant tale In Harms Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and
the Extraordinary Story of its Survivors, first published in 2001. Undeterred by his lack of military background, Stanton was so fascinated by the survivors accounts of the torpedoing of
the Indianapolis by the Japanese on July 30 and the desperate efforts to survive that he expanded what was originally intended to be a brief article into a 354-page tribute
to their bravery that literally defied the odds (and the sharks). Stanton recalled, "For almost five days, they struggled against unbelievably harsh conditions, fighting off sharks, hypothermia, physical and
mental exhaustion, and finally, hallucinatory dementia. And yet more than 300 of them managed to survive. The question I wanted to ask was, How?" (qtd. in Carpenter 48).
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