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USS Indianapolis: Disaster at Sea | Abandon Ship | 1

2022/1/18
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The USS Indianapolis is attacked by a Japanese submarine in the Philippine Sea, leading to the sinking of the ship and the stranding of its survivors in the open ocean.

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In the final weeks of World War II, the Navy cruiser U.S.S. Indianapolis was attacked and sunk by a Japanese submarine in the middle of the Philippine Sea. The nine hundred survivors found themselves stranded in the middle of the open ocean, many without rafts or life vests, wondering when – or if – help was coming.

This is the story of the greatest sea disaster in U.S. naval history, and the courageous men who survived it.

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