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 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.