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re: Wreckage of the USS Indianapolis discovered in Philippine Sea
Posted on 8/19/17 at 3:40 pm to upgrayedd
Posted on 8/19/17 at 3:40 pm to upgrayedd
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Jesus. That's a week before the war ended.
Do you know anything about this ? When the ship was hit it was in one of the most remote areas of the Pacific. Hardcore story.
Posted on 8/19/17 at 3:41 pm to keakar
quote:Really are you aware of how deep the water is?
now scavengers will start going out trying to make money from it somehow or try to turn it into some bizzare tourist
Posted on 8/19/17 at 3:43 pm to 14&Counting
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They pulled plenty of shite from the Titanic wreck. You can check it out at the Luxor in Vegas
Do you know the difference between a Navy ship and a commercial liner? The US Navy isn't going to let anyone dive that wreck for souvenirs.
Posted on 8/19/17 at 3:44 pm to goofball
Harm's Way by Doug Stanton. But I've read several and they kind of all bleed together in my head.
Posted on 8/19/17 at 3:45 pm to keakar
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when i see this stuff i just ask myself why???
there is no mystery as to what happened, so just leave the ship be so the resting place of so many brave souls can rest in peace.
now scavengers will start going out trying to make money from it somehow or try to turn it into some bizzare tourist attraction if they can find a way to make money off of it, they will
It's 18,000 feet deep.
Posted on 8/19/17 at 3:55 pm to tossedoff
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“Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into her side, Chief. We was comin’ back from the island of Tinian to Leyte. We’d just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn’t see the first shark for about a half-hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookin’ from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn’t know, was that our bomb mission was so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin’ by, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was sorta like you see in the calendars, you know the infantry squares in the old calendars like the Battle of Waterloo and the idea was the shark come to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin’ and hollerin’ and sometimes that shark he go away… but sometimes he wouldn’t go away. Sometimes that shark looks right at ya. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a shark is he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn’t even seem to be livin’… ’til he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then… ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The ocean turns red, and despite all your poundin’ and your hollerin’ those sharks come in and… they rip you to pieces. You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don’t know how many sharks there were, maybe a thousand. I do know how many men, they averaged six an hour. Thursday mornin’, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boson’s mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he’d been bitten in half below the waist. At noon on the fifth day, a Lockheed Ventura swung in low and he spotted us, a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper here, anyway he spotted us and a few hours later a big ol’ fat PBY come down and started to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin’ for my turn. I’ll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.”
Posted on 8/19/17 at 4:05 pm to ninthward
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Do you know anything about this ?
A little. The history channel did a series on it, I believe
Posted on 8/19/17 at 4:14 pm to RollTide1987
Now they just need to find the USS Oklahoma
Posted on 8/19/17 at 4:29 pm to JuiceTerry
quote:????
Quint
No.............
Posted on 8/19/17 at 4:31 pm to upgrayedd
My wife's grandfather was a survivor from the USS Indianapolis. They recently released a movie with Nicholas Cage as Captain McVay called "USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage". Definitely the most accurate representation of the ship's sinking and the aftermath.
Posted on 8/19/17 at 4:34 pm to Godfather1
quote:Went to Toormakeady and toasted him.
Robert Shaw
Here's the memorial near where he died.
(At the marina on the local loch)
This post was edited on 8/19/17 at 4:35 pm
Posted on 8/19/17 at 4:42 pm to Lsupimp
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Harm's Way by Doug Stanton.
In Harm's Way is an outstanding read. It boggles the mind how anyone survived the ordeal, much less 300+. Tough, brave bastards.
Posted on 8/19/17 at 4:47 pm to Lsupimp
In harms way. I actually picked a copy of this up at a garage sale last week.
Posted on 8/19/17 at 5:09 pm to ItTakesAThief
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I read somewhere the ship was not traveling in a zig zag pattern but was on a straight line at the time of the sinking.
Dammit Rickon.
Posted on 8/19/17 at 5:15 pm to keakar
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scavengers will start going out trying to make money from it somehow or try to turn it into some bizzare tourist attraction
Pretty unlikely
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a team of civilian researchers led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen discovered the cruiser's wreckage on the floor of the North Pacific Ocean, 18,000 feet below the surface
Posted on 8/19/17 at 5:40 pm to PsychTiger
The Japanese sub captain actually testified against the USS Indianapolis' captain in the hearing. He said it wouldn't have mattered if he were zig zagging, he would've sunk it anyways.
Posted on 8/19/17 at 5:53 pm to RollTide1987
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Paul Allen
Impossible...
Posted on 8/19/17 at 6:14 pm to RollTide1987
Bill O'Reilly gives a really account of that in his book, Killing the Rising Sun.
The ship was not going in zig zags and sailers were sleeping on the decks with hatches open due to hot, humid weather conditions. They were also radio silent.
It was a colossal screw up on behalf of the Captain.
The ship was not going in zig zags and sailers were sleeping on the decks with hatches open due to hot, humid weather conditions. They were also radio silent.
It was a colossal screw up on behalf of the Captain.
Posted on 8/20/17 at 10:33 am to LSUwag
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was a colossal screw up on behalf of the Captain.
Not really. The captain was more of a fall guy. Multiple distress signals were received by the navy and were not acted on. Zig zagging wouldn't have changed anything either. The submarine had him regardless of the ships movements.
It is really tragic. The captain eventually committed suicide.
Posted on 8/20/17 at 10:42 am to GetCocky11
The Captain did all he could.
The Navy refused to send help since the Indiana wasn't officially in those waters due to the top secret nature of their mission.
Captain wound up committing suicide cause he was made the fall guy.
The Navy refused to send help since the Indiana wasn't officially in those waters due to the top secret nature of their mission.
Captain wound up committing suicide cause he was made the fall guy.
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