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The USS Indianapolis was sunk on this day 75 years ago...
Posted on 7/30/20 at 6:52 pm
Posted on 7/30/20 at 6:52 pm
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Posted on 7/30/20 at 6:56 pm to RollTide1987
I watched the movie “Indianapolis” last week.
My grandfather helped pull the Captain out of the water. He used to go to the reunions in Indianapolis every year...and I never knew that Captain McVey had committed suicide.
My grandfather helped pull the Captain out of the water. He used to go to the reunions in Indianapolis every year...and I never knew that Captain McVey had committed suicide.
Posted on 7/30/20 at 6:59 pm to RollTide1987
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Y'know the thing about a shark, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'... until he bites ya. And those black eyes roll over white, and then...
Posted on 7/30/20 at 7:08 pm to RollTide1987
The story that always gets me is after they escaped a burning ship and survived shark attacks, they then got attacked by birds. God bless the men of the USS Indianapolis!
Posted on 7/30/20 at 7:22 pm to RollTide1987
"On Thursday mornin' chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player, boson's mate. I thought he was asleep, reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up and down in the water, just like a kinda top. Up ended. Well... he'd been bitten in half below the waist.”
Posted on 7/30/20 at 7:25 pm to SeaBass23
The story used in the movie was given to them by a family friend when they were filming in Navarre. He was a pilot on the Indianapolis. He use to have some crazy flying stories. I know CSB
Posted on 7/30/20 at 7:27 pm to RollTide1987
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At 0015 on 30 July, the ship was torpedoed by the Imperial Japanese Navy submarine I-58, and sank in 12 minutes. Of 1,195 crewmen aboard, approximately 300 went down with the ship.[4] The remaining 890 faced exposure, dehydration, saltwater poisoning, and shark attacks while stranded in the open ocean with few lifeboats and almost no food or water. The Navy only learned of the sinking four days later, when survivors were spotted by the crew of a PV-1 Ventura on routine patrol. Only 316 survived.[4] The sinking of Indianapolis resulted in the greatest single loss of life at sea from a single ship in the history of the US Navy.[a]
Posted on 7/30/20 at 7:29 pm to Rhino5
It's very tragic what happened. The massive loss of life is owed almost completely to the secrecy of the Indianapolis's mission.
Posted on 7/30/20 at 7:30 pm to RollTide1987
Robert Shaw was a goddamned treasure. A drunk treasure, but a treasure nonetheless.
He delivered one of the finest three and a half minutes of actifying that's ever been done.
He delivered one of the finest three and a half minutes of actifying that's ever been done.
This post was edited on 7/30/20 at 7:37 pm
Posted on 7/30/20 at 7:41 pm to RollTide1987
I've been to the bomb pits on tinian where they loaded the bomb on enola gay the indy brought and standing there you can't help think about those 700 men who went in the water. Absolutely terrifying
Posted on 7/30/20 at 7:44 pm to RollTide1987
Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies. Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain.
For we’ve received orders for to sail back to Boston.
And so never more shall we see you again.
For we’ve received orders for to sail back to Boston.
And so never more shall we see you again.
Posted on 7/30/20 at 7:44 pm to TigerstuckinMS
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Robert Shaw was a goddamned treasure. A drunk treasure, but a treasure nonetheless.
Props to John Milius, too. Back when movie studios let the guys with the talent do their fricking job.
Posted on 7/30/20 at 7:48 pm to RollTide1987
Any of them still alive?
Posted on 7/30/20 at 7:49 pm to SeaBass23
The man I called "parran" was on the Indianapolis. Great guy.
He had a stroke when I was just a kid, so I never really got to converse about it with him.
Word was, the scars on the back of his neck were from the life vest rubbing against him for so many days.
He had a stroke when I was just a kid, so I never really got to converse about it with him.
Word was, the scars on the back of his neck were from the life vest rubbing against him for so many days.
Posted on 7/30/20 at 7:57 pm to RollTide1987
Quint did get the date wrong (he stated 6/29/45). 
Posted on 7/30/20 at 8:31 pm to TigerstuckinMS
quote:<——Went to his house (where he died) in Tormakeady, BFE, Ireland
Robert Shaw was a goddamned treasure. A drunk treasure, but a treasure nonetheless. He delivered one of the finest three and a half minutes of actifying that's ever been done.
Drimbawn House
Posted on 7/30/20 at 8:40 pm to RollTide1987
Floating in those waters for 4 days would truly be impossible to even comprehend.
Watching guys die of dehydration and even worse, getting bit by sharks.
At night, with it pitch black and nothing but screams around you.
It’s literally a living nightmare
Watching guys die of dehydration and even worse, getting bit by sharks.
At night, with it pitch black and nothing but screams around you.
It’s literally a living nightmare
Posted on 7/30/20 at 8:51 pm to RollTide1987
Posted on 7/30/20 at 9:38 pm to ItzMe1972
The way the USN tried to scapegoat the Captain was a disgrace.
Of all Captains in the history of the United States Navy, he is the only one to have been subjected to court-martial for losing a ship sunk by an act of war, despite the fact that he was on a top secret mission maintaining radio silence.
During his court martial the defense got the Skipper of the Japanese I-boat to testify for the Captain of the Indy saying that the lack of a the Indy steering a zig zag course didnt make a difference, the I-Boat by sheer luck was in the right place and had the Indy dead to rights.
Of all Captains in the history of the United States Navy, he is the only one to have been subjected to court-martial for losing a ship sunk by an act of war, despite the fact that he was on a top secret mission maintaining radio silence.
During his court martial the defense got the Skipper of the Japanese I-boat to testify for the Captain of the Indy saying that the lack of a the Indy steering a zig zag course didnt make a difference, the I-Boat by sheer luck was in the right place and had the Indy dead to rights.
This post was edited on 7/30/20 at 9:49 pm
Posted on 7/30/20 at 9:49 pm to RollTide1987
Dressed like quint on a deep sea trip a few weeks back. His monologue was amazing.
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