TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vincent,Lynn
AU  - Vladic,Sara
TI  - Indianapolis: the true story of the worst sea disaster in U.S. naval history and the fifty-year fight to exonerate an innocent man 
SN  - 9781501135941
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Simon & Schuster
KW  - McVay, Charles Butler,
KW  - McVay, Charles Butler
KW  - Indianapolis (Cruiser)
KW  - History
KW  - United States
KW  - Navy
KW  - Search and rescue operations
KW  - Pacific Ocean
KW  - Indianapolis (Cruiser.)
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - fast
KW  - World War (1939-1945)
KW  - Naval operations, American
KW  - Shipwrecks
KW  - Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
KW  - Judicial error
KW  - Vindication
KW  - Military history
KW  - Trials
KW  - Naval history
KW  - Armed Forces
KW  - Military operations, Naval
KW  - American
KW  - Geography
KW  - Trial and arbitral proceedings
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-540) and index; Prologue: The ship -- The kamikaze -- The mission -- The deep -- Trial and scandal -- An innocent man -- Final log entry: August 19, 2017
N2  - Just after midnight on July 30, 1945, days after delivering the components of the atomic bomb from California to the Pacific Islands in the most highly classified naval mission of the war, the USS Indianapolis is sailing alone in the center of the Philippine Sea when she is struck by two Japanese torpedoes. The ship is instantly transformed into a fiery cauldron and sinks within minutes. Some 300 men go down with the ship. Nearly 900 make it into the water alive. For the next five nights and four days, almost three hundred miles from the nearest land, the men battle injuries, sharks, dehydration, insanity, and eventually each other. Only 316 will survive. For the better part of a century, the story of USS Indianapolis has been understood as a sinking tale. The reality, however, is far more complicated. Following a decade of original research and interviews with 107 survivors and eyewitnesses, Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic tell the complete story of the ship, her crew, and their final mission to save one of their own. The survivors fight for fifty years on behalf of their skipper, Captain Charles McVay III, who is wrongly court-martialed for the sinking. The courtroom drama weaves through generations of American presidents, from Harry Truman to George W. Bush, and forever entwines the lives of three captains: McVay, whose life and career are never the same after the scandal; Mochitsura Hashimoto, the Japanese sub commander who sinks Indianapolis but later joins the battle to exonerate McVay; and William Toti, the captain of the modern-day submarine Indianapolis, who helps the survivors fight to vindicate their captain
ER  -