Seventy-five years after two torpedoes fired from a Japanese submarine sunk cruiser USS Indianapolis (CA-35), the ship’s wreckage was found resting on the seafloor on Saturday – more than 18,000 feet below the Pacific Ocean’s surface.
Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist, led a search team, assisted by historians from the Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) in Washington, D.C., to accomplish what past searches had failed to do – find Indianapolis, considered the last great naval tragedy of World War II. |
"So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945"
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I think the scene from the movie Jaws when Quint tells his story.
"So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945"
Ha ha me too
Quote:
I think the scene from the movie Jaws when Quint tells his story.
Ha ha me too
+2.
A million alone on the allied side and an additional million or two on the axis side.
Different time and mind set.