The in-depth story of the USS Indianapolis Disaster. This week is about sharks: In the final days of WWII, the crew of the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) faced a harrowing choice: Burn on their sinking ship ...

At the time, 19-year-old seaman Loel Dean Cox was aboard the USS Indianapolis, a survivor of the tragic event who later ...

On July 26, 1945, the heavy cruiser U.S.S. Indianapolis landed on Tinian Island ... saltwater poisoning, shark attack—even homicide, when men began slipping into hallucinatory madness, stabbing ...

The celebrated USS Indianapolis was nearly blown in half ... Subjected to dehydration, heat, delirium from drinking salt water, and shark attacks, only 316 would make it out of the water alive.

This story was originally published July 23, 1998 in the Chaska Herald. Paul Murphy always keeps fresh oranges in his house. He doesn’t make too much of this. In fact, ...

When Mary Welch, of Chaska, learned that wreckage of the World War II battleship USS Indianapolis had been found Aug. 19, it was a bittersweet moment. Torpedoed and sunk July 30 1945, its resting ...

heat and sharks In recent years, the remaining survivors have met in Indianapolis for their reunions. Two other Navy ships have been named Indianapolis: • USS Indianapolis (ID-3865) was a cargo ...

When the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis sank in July 1945, as many as 80 of the sailors’ deaths were blamed on shark attacks as survivors drifted for five days in the “shark-infested waters ...

True story of the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, its crew's struggle to survive the sharks and exposure, and the captain's scape-goat court-martial.