**Around 800 of the ship’s 1,196 sailors and Marines survived the sinking, but after four to five days in the water, suffering exposure, dehydration, drowning, and shark attacks, only 316 survived.**
If anyone ever wondered what it was like to be in the water after a enemy attack, I offer my Uncle Joe’s verbal account of what it was like after his ship the USS Juneau was hit. [The Juneau was the ship of the Sullivan Brothers tragedy.]
**TEN MEN OUT OF 700** is not a perfect piece of literature; it is what it is. I’m so glad we have his first hand account of what happened. God rest my Uncle Joe.