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Wreckage Of Famed WWII Cruiser Indianapolis Found Three Miles Under Pacific

Monday, August 21st, 2017

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Wreckage Of Famed WWII Cruiser Indianapolis Found Three Miles Under Pacific

Bow-on view of the USS Indianapolis, taken off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 10 July 1945, after her final overhaul. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

More than 70 years after a Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into her side and sent the USS Indianapolis to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, the ship’s wreckage was found by a civilian research team.On the night of June 29, 1945, coming back from the island of Tinian to Leyte in the Philippines, having just delivered the atomic bomb destined for Hiroshima, the Indianapolis was stalked by a Japanese submarine. The sub fired six torpedoes, two of which struck…

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