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re: Here’s the tale of the Ship Indianapolis, The torpedoes got some, the sharks got the rest
Posted on 4/1/21 at 1:35 am to fr33manator
Posted on 4/1/21 at 1:35 am to fr33manator
The family of the ship’s captain has tried for decades to get the Navy to clear his name.
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Posted on 4/1/21 at 1:44 am to SoFla Tideroller
Been a long time since I read up on that, I get the secrecy of her mission on the way to deliver, not so much afterwards. Plus the radio silence afterwards. As the other ships in the group saw her fatally torpedoed, don’t you think the Japs knew where they were? But radio silence was the order.
Posted on 4/1/21 at 8:53 am to SoFla Tideroller
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The family of the ship’s captain has tried for decades to get the Navy to clear his name.
His name was cleared:
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McVay was posthumously exonerated by the 106th United States Congress and President Bill Clinton on October 30, 2000.
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