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Uss Indianapolis
Posted on 6/30/15 at 7:19 pm
Posted on 6/30/15 at 7:19 pm
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Day 3 :The sun finally did rise and it got warmed up again. Some of the guys been drinkin salt water by now, and they were goin bezerk. They’d tell you big stories about the Indianapolis is not sunk, its’ just right there under the surface. I was just down there and had a drink of water out of the drinkin fountain and the Geedunk is still open. The geedunk bein the commissary where you buy ice cream, cigarettes, candy, what have you, “it’s still open” they’d tell ya. “Come on we’ll go get a drink of water”, and then 3 or 4 guys would believe this story and go with them.
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Can't imagine floating in the ocean that long.
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Posted on 6/30/15 at 7:20 pm to eScott
If this interests you, then you must read the book In Harm's Way.
Posted on 6/30/15 at 7:28 pm to eScott
Had a great uncle that was on, and survived. Died about 5 years ago in Indianapolis.
Posted on 6/30/15 at 7:31 pm to CanShakersDecayedNut
Damn.
I just ran across it and might get it.
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In Harm's Way
I just ran across it and might get it.
Posted on 6/30/15 at 7:34 pm to eScott
Posted on 6/30/15 at 7:38 pm to SEClint
Met one of the survivors in a hospital cafeteria one time. Truly an honor to talk with him for a while.
Posted on 6/30/15 at 7:38 pm to eScott
Horrible incident, The pure HELL!
Posted on 6/30/15 at 7:44 pm to LSUaFOOL
And the idea was, the shark goes to the nearest man and then he'd start poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark would go away. Sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark, he looks right into you. Right into your eyes. You know the thing about a shark, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'. Until he bites ya and those black eyes roll over white. And then, ah then you hear that terrible high pitch screamin' and the ocean turns red and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin' they all come in and rip you to pieces ~ Quint
Posted on 6/30/15 at 7:45 pm to eScott
"We'd just delivered the bomb, the Hiroshima bomb."
Unreal.
Unreal.
Posted on 6/30/15 at 7:50 pm to Backinthe615
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"We'd just delivered the bomb, the Hiroshima bomb."
Heard someone try to argue once that it was "karma landing on them", for delivering that.
Posted on 6/30/15 at 7:51 pm to Backinthe615
Imagine if they'd been hit before delivering it.
Posted on 6/30/15 at 9:29 pm to eScott
Old man Coleman from Coleman Toyota in Baton Rouge (I think it now either sold or closed) was a survivor of the USS Indianopolis. They say he was as mean as a rattlesnake but I guess anyone would be after an ordeal like that.
Posted on 6/30/15 at 10:20 pm to eScott
The entire incident was tragic, but especially so the Navy's treatment of the Captain:
"That the commanding officer of the Indianapolis, Captain Charles B. McVay should be court-martialed for having failed in his primary duty to protect his ship was inutterably criminal and something the for which the U.S. Navy should be ashamed....But McVay was convicted of hazarding his ship. Admiral Nimitz vacated the sentence of the court, and restored McVay to active duty. He retired in 1949, but the sense of guilt which he felt finally overcame him, and he committed suicide in 1968, using his navy service revolver. In October 2000, the United States Congress proposed a resolution that Captain McVay's record should state that "he is exonerated for the loss of Indianapolis." The resolution was easily passed and signed into effect by President Bill Clinton."
"That the commanding officer of the Indianapolis, Captain Charles B. McVay should be court-martialed for having failed in his primary duty to protect his ship was inutterably criminal and something the for which the U.S. Navy should be ashamed....But McVay was convicted of hazarding his ship. Admiral Nimitz vacated the sentence of the court, and restored McVay to active duty. He retired in 1949, but the sense of guilt which he felt finally overcame him, and he committed suicide in 1968, using his navy service revolver. In October 2000, the United States Congress proposed a resolution that Captain McVay's record should state that "he is exonerated for the loss of Indianapolis." The resolution was easily passed and signed into effect by President Bill Clinton."
Posted on 7/1/15 at 7:56 am to TigerOnThe Hill
During the trial, the Jap sub commander was even brought in to testify. Mcvay didn't have the ship ordered to do the zig-zag pattern for safety. It was night. The Jap commander testified that it didn't matter that he wasn't zig zagging, he would have got them anyways.
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