Worst Shark Attack in History: USS Indianapolis

Описание: On July 30, 1945, a Japanese submarine torpedoed the USS Indianapolis in the Philippine Sea — nine hundred men were thrown into shark-infested waters, and the U.S. Navy didn't even know they were missing for four days.
📖 The book behind this story: In Harm's Way by Doug Stanton — https://geni.us/r4oc5
🎨 Visual Storytelling: This documentary uses AI-generated cinematic art and animation to bring historical events to life.
After secretly delivering components for the atomic bomb that would destroy Hiroshima, the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis CA-35 was torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-58 under Commander Mochitsura Hashimoto. The ship sank in just twelve minutes. Of the roughly 900 men who survived the sinking, only 316 were rescued — the rest were killed by dehydration, saltwater poisoning, exposure, hallucinations, and relentless oceanic whitetip shark attacks. A cascade of Navy communication failures meant no one searched for them until a patrol plane spotted an oil slick by accident on day four. Captain Charles McVay III was later court-martialed for the disaster — the only captain in U.S. Navy history convicted for losing his ship to enemy action — and took his own life in 1968. He was officially exonerated in 2001.

📚 SOURCES & FURTHER READING

In Harm's Way by Doug Stanton — https://geni.us/r4oc5
Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History by Lynn Vincent & Sara Vladic - https://geni.us/5rl2S3n
Out of the Depths by Edgar Harrell with David Harrell - https://geni.us/z1T1M
Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) Oral History Collection — history.navy.mil
CINCPAC Official Investigation Report — Loss of USS Indianapolis (1945)
Court-Martial Transcripts — Captain Charles B. McVay III (December 1945, NARA)
Japanese Submarine I-58 Operational Records & Hashimoto Interrogation (NARA)
Congressional Record — Senate Armed Services Committee Hearings on McVay Exoneration (September 14, 1999)
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Section 1084 — govinfo.gov
USS Indianapolis Wreck Discovery Documentation — Paul Allen / Vulcan Inc. (August 2017)
Library of Congress Veterans History Project — loc.gov/vets
Smithsonian Magazine — USS Indianapolis historical coverage
National Museum of the Pacific War — pacificwarmuseum.org
National Park Service — USS Indianapolis war grave documentation
Indiana War Memorials — USS Indianapolis Memorial (1995)
Thumbnail: U.S. Navy photo 80-G-425615 (Public Domain)

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The sinking of the USS Indianapolis on July 30, 1945, remains the deadliest single-ship disaster in United States Naval history. This documentary covers the secret atomic bomb mission to Tinian, the torpedo attack by submarine I-58, the four-day survival ordeal in the Philippine Sea, Lieutenant Adrian Marks' unauthorized PBY Catalina landing to rescue survivors, and the controversial court-martial of Captain McVay that took fifty-six years to overturn.