Wreckage of USS Indianapolis found17 photos Over the years numerous books recounted the ship's disaster and its role in delivering key components of what would become the atomic bomb "Little Boy" to the island of Tinian, the take-off point for the bomber Enola Gay's mission to Hiroshima in...
As for theIndianapolisitself, aresearch vesselowned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allendiscoveredtheship’s wreckageat the bottom of the Pacific Ocean in August 2017. The wreck site is nowunder the careof the Navy, which has left it undisturbed as a war grave for the hundreds of soldiers who...
Wreckage from the USS Juneau was located off the Solomon Islands by the Research Vessel (R/V) Petrel. It is the final resting place of the five Sullivan brothers who served and died together.
Last week, I tweeted some photos that I took at Crown Hill Cemetery of the grave of Harry Keys, an Indianapolis resident who was on the ill-fated USS Maine. My tweets got the attention of a high school history teacher who had done research on the mass burial of the casualties. She had...
USS Indianapolis, U.S. Navy heavy cruiser sunk by the Japanese on July 30, 1945, after which only some 300 were saved from the shark-infested waters.
The wreckage of a WWII-era US warship that the Navy called the worst disaster at sea has been discoveredNoah Friedman