Lynn Vincent
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
In 1945, days after delivering the components of the atomic bomb from California to the Pacific Islands in the most highly classified naval mission of the war, the USS Indianapolis is sailing alone in the Philippine Sea, when struck by two Japanese torpedoes. The ship sinks within minutes. Some 300 men go down with the ship. Nearly 900 make it into the water alive. For the next five nights and four days, almost three hundred miles from the nearest...