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Billionaire Paul Allen Finds Lost World War II Cruiser USS Indianapolis in the Philippine Sea
U.S. Naval Institute ^
| August 19, 2017
| Ben Werner
Posted on 08/19/2017 1:08:09 PM PDT by Riley
Seventy-two years after two torpedoes fired from a Japanese submarine sunk cruiser USS Indianapolis (CA-35), the ship’s wreckage was found resting on the seafloor on Saturday – more than 18,000 feet below the Pacific Ocean’s surface.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.usni.org ...
TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: abomb; hiroshima; manhattanproject; shipwreck; usnavy; ussindianapolis; wwii
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Wreck of the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) found.
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posted on
08/19/2017 1:08:09 PM PDT
by
Riley
To: Riley
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posted on
08/19/2017 1:09:17 PM PDT
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: Riley
This would be unknown, except for the story re-told in the movie, “Jaws”.
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posted on
08/19/2017 1:09:38 PM PDT
by
Does so
(The Enlightened Left openly sacrifices "women and children first" on the altar of multiculturalism..)
To: Riley
‘So, we’ll drink to our legs’
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posted on
08/19/2017 1:09:50 PM PDT
by
stanne
To: Riley
the ship mentioned in Jaws ???
To: Riley
I heard the other day. There are 19 survivors left.
Thank you all, for what you did.
Thanking you, just doesn’t seem to be enough.
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posted on
08/19/2017 1:14:00 PM PDT
by
Kakaze
(I want The Republic back !)
To: Riley
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posted on
08/19/2017 1:14:02 PM PDT
by
x
To: Riley
"So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.
Anyway, we delivered the bomb."
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posted on
08/19/2017 1:14:04 PM PDT
by
Flag_This
(Liberals are locusts.)
To: Riley
Wow! Didn’t know anyone was looking for it. Allen has a nice warplane collection just north of Seattle that’s open to the public. Worth a visit. Quite a few WWII era planes.
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posted on
08/19/2017 1:14:04 PM PDT
by
MAGA2017
To: MAGA2017
The Navy really screwed up not knowing the ship was missing for days. Tragic.
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posted on
08/19/2017 1:18:23 PM PDT
by
Oldexpat
To: Does so
“This would be unknown, except for the story re-told in the movie, “Jaws””.
You’re wrong.
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posted on
08/19/2017 1:18:55 PM PDT
by
laplata
(Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: Riley
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posted on
08/19/2017 1:20:21 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Tennessee Nana
Yes, the character played by Robert Shaw was a survivor and he told the story while they were drinking one night on the boat.
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posted on
08/19/2017 1:21:14 PM PDT
by
laplata
(Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: laplata
And a fine piece of acting that was.
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posted on
08/19/2017 1:22:11 PM PDT
by
Riley
(The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
To: Oldexpat
The mission to deliver the first atomic bomb was so secret that after it was completed the navy lost track of the ship.
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posted on
08/19/2017 1:22:30 PM PDT
by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
To: Riley
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posted on
08/19/2017 1:24:57 PM PDT
by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: Riley
There was another cruiser that the Japs sank early in the war in the Dutch East Indies. It was nicked a ghost ship because the Japs had claimed to have sunk so many times and it kept returning to the fight. The survivors wound up building a railroad in Burma. when they were freed and returned home they were totally forgotten.
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posted on
08/19/2017 1:25:42 PM PDT
by
fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
To: Does so
This would be unknown, except for the story re-told in the movie, “Jaws”. Thanks to John Milieus who wrote the scene (and created Dirty Harry)
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posted on
08/19/2017 1:28:45 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: Kakaze
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posted on
08/19/2017 1:30:24 PM PDT
by
Michael.SF.
(Women who are 25 pounds overweight tend to live longer than the men who mention it.)
To: Vaquero
Yes, thank you, Mr. Milieus.
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posted on
08/19/2017 1:36:09 PM PDT
by
null and void
(You can only see into the future as far as you can see into your past.)
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