The USS Indianapolis has been located at the bottom of the Philippine Sea.
The sinking was quick and many didn't make it out.
Many that did were lost to shark attacks. Which was made worse by the fact it was not reported over due.
The character Quint from Jaws was a survivor of the sinking to explain his hatred of sharks.
The Captain Charles B. McVay III was court marshaled because he was not zig-zaging, a maneuver to make sub attacks harder.
A fact that the Japaneses sub commander testified at the trial would have not changed any thing.
A 12 year old after watching Jaws advocated the overturning of the ruling.
Unfortunately too many years too late as the pressures of guilt and harassment from the families of the lost lead him to take his own life.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/19/us/uss...und/index.html
It was returning from delivering the uranium components of the first atomic bomb dropped in WWII to Island of Tinian.
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