Posted on 07/10/2023 7:56:04 AM PDT by DFG
I’m sorry. Radio. It was the 70s. Point was that their boat was known to be far too small, and turned out to be far too small. If that means going back to shore and restarting their mission, so be it. But Quint wanted ALL of the money; he didn’t want to be told his boat was too small.
The ship was carrying the bombs that were used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
It was a secret mission ...
They couldent even break radio silence to say the ship was sinking ...
The facts are a little different. The Indianapolis delivered the bomb components to officials on Tinian and was proceeding to Leyte. No departure message was sent from Guam, so Leyte was not expecting Indy. The ship sank in 12 minutes.. SOS was transmitted but not received. The survivors were spotted by a lone patrol plane after 4 days in the water. Had the pilot not spotted them...there would have been no survivors from the sinking.
That was a horrible tragedy.
I didnt mean they had the bombs at that time. They were already delivered.
They didnt want the Japanese to know they were in the area.
Sorry I wasnt clear in my comments.
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