WWII’s Deadliest U.S. Naval Disaster | USS Indianapolis’ 5-Day Hell at Sea (1945)

Описание: WWII’s Deadliest U.S. Naval Disaster | USS Indianapolis’ 5-Day Hell at Sea (1945)

Racing in silence to deliver parts of the first atomic bomb, the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis vanished into the Philippine Sea on a black July night in 1945. Torpedoed by submarine I-58, she sank in just 12 minutes—leaving nearly 900 sailors in open water. What followed was a harrowing five-day ordeal of thirst, exposure, hallucinations, and shark-infested seas, where leadership and sheer will kept small groups alive against impossible odds.
This video traces the covert delivery to Tinian, the catastrophe at sea, the chance aerial sighting by Lt. “Chuck” Gwinn, the audacious ocean landing by PBY pilot Lt. (jg) Robert A. Marks, and the 316 survivors who were finally pulled from the water. We then follow the controversial court-martial of Captain Charles B. McVay III, his decades-late exoneration, and the discovery of the wreck in 2017—closing a circle of history, memory, and hard-earned lessons that reshaped Navy procedures.

What you’ll learn
The Indianapolis’s top-secret role in the Little Boy mission
How a perfect storm of paperwork errors and missed SOS calls delayed rescue
The real balance of causes of death vs. the legend of “sharks”
Why McVay was tried—and why Congress later cleared his name
How the wreck was found and what it revealed


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