On July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine. An estimated 300 men were killed upon impact; close to 900 sailors were cast into the Pacific Ocean, where they struggled to stay alive, battered by a savage sea and fighting off sharks, hypothermia, and dementia. By the time help arrived-nearly four days and nights later-all but 317 men had died. How did the navy fail to realize the Indianapolis was...

For fans of sea battles, adventures, and war stories like Unbroken, this is the incredible true story of a boy who helps to bring closure to the survivors of the tragic sinking of the USS Indianapolis, and helps exonerate the ship’s captain fifty years later.
 
Hunter Scott first learned about the sinking of the USS Indianapolis by watching the movie Jaws when he was just eleven-years-old. This was fifty...

Provides an account of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis in 1945 and of its aftermath. Recounts the worst U.S. Naval disaster, explains how bureaucracy prevented a timely rescue, and describes the five-day ordeal that only one quarter of the crew survived.

Updated edition, in which Peter Maas reveals facts previously unavailable to Richard Newcomb and chronicles the forty-year crusade to restore the Indianapolis' captain, Charles Butler McVay, III's good name. The captain was court-martialed and convicted of "hazarding" his ship. He had asked for a destroyer escort and was told it wasn't necessary. But it was. The ship was torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine. In twelve minutes, 300 men went down...

July 30, 1945: The heavy cruiser U.S.S. Indianapolis was sunk by a torpedo. 1,196 men went into the water. When rescue arrived five days later, only 317 remained. What happened during those five terrible days? Full of harrowing personal accounts from survivors, and written by a veteran who served aboard the cruiser before the attack, Ordeal by Sea chronicles the stark human drama and sensational aftermath of one of the worst disasters in naval history....

"A WWII hero's courageous, inspiring true story of survival against all odds after the sinking of the USS Indianapolis"--

A young readers edition of Doug Stanton and Michael J. Tougias' New York Times bestseller In Harm's Way-a riveting World War II account of the greatest maritime disaster in US naval history. On July 30, 1945, the U.S.S. Indianapolis was torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine. An estimated 300 men were killed upon impact; close to 900 sailors were cast into the Pacific Ocean, where they remained undetected by the navy for nearly four...

In July 1945, a Japanese submarine sinks the USS Indianapolis. Indianapolis₂ final resting place remains a mystery for more than seven decades, until an expedition launched by philanthropist Paul G. Allen discovers the ship in August 2017. Now the story of USS Indianapolis is told as PBS reconstructs the ship₂s heroic legacy, its dramatic final moments, and the discovery of the wreck site.