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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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To: Does so

If you retract your “This would be unknown” qualifier, we could be in agreement.


81 posted on 08/19/2017 7:16:53 PM PDT by rlmorel (Those who sit on the picket fence are impaled by it.)
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To: Chode; Riley

I had the opportunity and privilege to speak for several hours with the ship’s doctor many years ago. He was very open, and I can tell you, I was quite moved.

The thing that got me was how he said he could not even hear the Lord’s Prayer without choking up. And he choked up even telling me that.

50 years later. It still has that effect on him.


82 posted on 08/19/2017 7:21:51 PM PDT by rlmorel (Those who sit on the picket fence are impaled by it.)
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To: Does so

I see your point but it was/is a not forgotten story.


83 posted on 08/19/2017 7:28:46 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Riley; laplata

It was, he made you feel the sharks breathe on your butt...

:)


84 posted on 08/19/2017 7:40:57 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Does so
Including my late Dad—who flew a PBY Black Cat on open-ocean rescues—families and shipmates seldom spoke of the war.

My grandfather was born in England and was a Canadian soldier in WW1. He only opened up to me in private, when I asked him to. I was very young then.

He never volunteered such talk and often resisted it. He told me much, and although he passed in 1978, he is much missed. Perhaps his greatest gift to me was sharing with young me things that woke him up in the night, on my insistence. I saw that war through his brave eyes.

85 posted on 08/19/2017 7:42:09 PM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: Fiji Hill
A first cousin, who was a member of the crew, got thrown in the brig for being drunk and rowdy

Kind of me back in the day. Managed to avoid brig time (Marines). LOL

86 posted on 08/19/2017 7:45:24 PM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: 11th_VA

I was sitting with my cardboard box of popcorn in my hands...when the shark comes up out of the water at Richard ??? who was throwing out the meat ...I smacked my hands together ...popcorn shot up out of the box and fell on other people rows away...you can imagine the startled screams...

my husbands whispered to me “I’m never getting you popcorn anymore”

LOL


87 posted on 08/19/2017 7:59:02 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: rlmorel

Amen


88 posted on 08/19/2017 8:06:58 PM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: Tennessee Nana

$75. worth of popcorn down the drain.

What? Are you a 1%er and can afford a movie AND popcorn? You must have won the lottery. :)


89 posted on 08/19/2017 8:10:36 PM PDT by Daffynition (The New PTSD: PRESIDENT-Trump Stress Disorder - The LSN didnÂ’t make Trump, so they can't break him)
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To: Daffynition

We were both in the military and overseas and watched the movie at the theater on base...

everything was a bit cheaper

:)


90 posted on 08/19/2017 8:20:04 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: itsahoot

The Bridge on the River Kai


91 posted on 08/19/2017 8:21:01 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: laplata; righttackle44; Vaquero
I see your point but it was/is a not forgotten story.

I decided to send the story to friends and neighbors, but there was only one person among them who would have known of this tragedy.

The two of us are about the same age, served the same years in the US Navy, and are WWII history buffs: others, if they hadn't seen the movie, wouldn't have recalled the USS Indianapolis story.

92 posted on 08/19/2017 8:21:24 PM PDT by Does so (McAuliffe's Charlottesville...)
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To: Chode

Chode; part of the answer to why they dropped the dazzle camoflage is revealed by a closer look at the two photos you posted. You can tell that the ship went through an extensive overhaul which included a reconstruction of much of the superstructure. Most of the major surface units of the USN did during the war. In fact, the Indianapolis had just completed her overhaul when she left for Tinian. Looks like they just didn’t repaint her with dazzle.

Very good pictorial history of the Indianapolis can be found here:

http://www.navsource.org/archives/04/035/04035.htm

A resource worth bookmarking.

By the way, the overhaul process was one of the many advantages we held over the IJN. Our shipyard capacity was so great, we decided to use the east coast yards for new construction and the west coast yards for repair, overhaul and reconstruction. At the navsource website, look at the reconstructed West Virginia and Tennessee for example. They went from looking like WW1 dreadnoughts on Dec. 7 1941 to looking like modern battleships in 1945. The Japanese couldn’t begin to match that.


93 posted on 08/19/2017 8:25:32 PM PDT by henkster (Ask your favorite liberal to take the "Snowflake Challenge.")
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To: Does so

I’m also a WW II history buff. US Army RVN.


94 posted on 08/19/2017 8:49:31 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: henkster
good stuff... thx
95 posted on 08/19/2017 9:17:50 PM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Yep one of the great ones. Bridges of Toko Ri was another of William Holden’s good ones. Today a single smart bomb or cruise missile would take those bridges out.


96 posted on 08/19/2017 11:07:19 PM PDT by itsahoot (As long as there is money to be divided, there will be division.)
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