The USS Indianapolis: The Full Story of the Navy's Worst Disaster at Sea

Just after midnight on July 30, 1945, a Japanese submarine put two torpedoes into the USS Indianapolis and sank her in twelve minutes. Almost 900 men went into the Pacific Ocean. Nobody came looking for them for nearly four days. By the time rescue planes finally spotted the survivors, sharks, dehydration and salt poisoning had cut their numbers from around 900 down to 316. It remains the single worst loss of life from one ship in the history of the US Navy, and it happened five days after...