Navy Veteran of the sinking of the Indianapolis battle ship . . . .

[patrice]

"It was easier to die in those days of "hell on Earth", dying, while trying to hold each other up, weeks in open water, lost, in SHARK infested waters . . . . " Misplaced somehow . . . .

But not Forgotten, by the People, to whom it happened.

[baldguy]

1. Technically, the USS Indianapolis was a heavy cruiser.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indianapolis_(CA-35)

[patrice]

9. I didn't think I had that right.

Thanks.

[MrSlayer]

2. Anyone who watched "Jaws" knows the story.

Although Quint does get the month wrong.

"Anyway....We delivered the bomb."

[rinsd]

3. That is my favorite scene....

When Richard Dryfuss as Hooper stops dead from joking when Quint tells him what the tatoo was.

[jedr]

4. Salute.........

May you know that your efforts were appreciated and I hope you never have to defend your actions to those who refused to serve.:patriot:

[patrice]

10. No defense neccesary for actions that stand on their own validity.

[mr_hat]

5. They were days in the open water, not weeks. >

July 29 - Aug 2/3.

Still. It was a horrific incident, made all the moreso by the Navy's cover-up and scapegoating of her skipper.

[patrice]

12. Thanks for the correction.

[oneighty]

6. They had a few days before

delivered the little boy to Tinian. Ships movements were know to very few people. The top heavy Indy was not 'missed' because of that SNAFU causing no search efforts to be conducted.

The Captain in a final act of contrition blew his own brains out.

A sorry fuck up by the US Navy.

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[mr_hat]

7. Captain McVay committed suicide in 1968, not that was there anything >

for him to be contrite about.

http://www.ussindianapolis.org/story.htm

edited: accuracy.

[oneighty]

8. No he did not.

Very sad.

Gee 68? My dad died in 68. Seems like yesterday.

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[patrice]

11. For not "zig zagging", but the Japanese naval submarine captain

said he would have sunk the Indianapolis anyway, no matter what the Ind's captain had done, he could sink the Ind and the Ind was not given the information that the submarine was in the area, or informaiton about previous submarine activity in the region.