06775cam a22006978i 4500 25794 25794 6703677 MeVbMML 20190502001741.0 180330s2018 nyuabf b 001 0 eng 2018015537 9781501135941 (hardcover) 1501135945 9781501135958 1501135953 9781501135941 28.00 1501135945 28.00 6659554 (OCoLC)on1006799848 (OCoLC)1006799848 6659554 6659554 DLC eng rda DLC BDX GK8 YDX OCLCO OCLCF BLP FM0 FMF IEB JTH WHWPL BUR pcc n-us--- po----- D774.I5 V56 2018 940.54/26 23 D774.I5 V56 2018 940.5426 Vincent 940.5426 Vincent Vincent, Lynn, author. 7194 Indianapolis : the true story of the worst sea disaster in U.S. naval history and the fifty-year fight to exonerate an innocent man / Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic. True story of the worst sea disaster in U.S. naval history and the fifty-year fight to exonerate an innocent man First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2018. 578 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-540) and index. "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, 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--and compelling. Now, for the first time, thanks to 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. It begins in 1932, when Indianapolis is christened and launched as the ship of state for President Franklin Roosevelt. After Pearl Harbor, Indianapolis leads the charge to the Pacific Islands, notching an unbroken string of victories in an uncharted theater of war. Then, under orders from President Harry Truman, the ship takes aboard a superspy and embarks on her final world-changing mission: delivering the core of the atomic bomb to the Pacific for the strike on Hiroshima. Vincent and Vladic provide a visceral, moment-by-moment account of the disaster that unfolds days later after the Japanese torpedo attack, from the chaos on board the sinking ship to the first moments of shock as the crew plunge into the remote waters of the Philippine Sea, to the long days and nights during which terror and hunger morph into delusion and desperation, and the men must band together to survive. Then, for the first time, the authors go beyond the men's rescue to chronicle Indianapolis's extraordinary final mission: the survivors' fifty-year fight for justice on behalf of their skipper, Captain Charles McVay III, who is wrongly court-martialed for the sinking. What follows is a captivating courtroom drama that 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. A sweeping saga of survival, sacrifice, justice, and love, Indianapolis stands as both groundbreaking naval history and spellbinding narrative--and brings the ship and her heroic crew back to full, vivid, unforgettable life. It is the definitive account of one of the most remarkable episodes in American history"-- Provided by publisher. McVay, Charles Butler, III, 1898-1968 Trials, litigation, etc. 7195 Indianapolis (Cruiser) History. 7196 United States. Navy Search and rescue operations Pacific Ocean. 7197 World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations, American. 7198 World War, 1939-1945 Search and rescue operations Pacific Ocean. 7199 Shipwrecks Pacific Ocean. 7200 Vladic, Sara, author. 7201 New Shelf New Shelf New Shelf New Shelf New Shelf New Shelf New Shelf ddc BOOK BPL NFX 26 213310-1 D774.I5 V56 2018 Boston Library 39999094341474 9 6 2 2 5 28.00 Item generated Aug 10 2018 1:06PM BPL NFX 26 213310-1 D774.I5 V56 2018 Boston Library 39999094341482 9 6 2 2 5 28.00 Item generated Aug 10 2018 1:06PM BPL NFX 26 213310-1 D774.I5 V56 2018 Boston Library 39999094341490 9 6 2 2 5 28.00 Item generated Aug 10 2018 1:06PM BPL NFX 26 213310-1 D774.I5 V56 2018 Boston Library 39999094341508 9 6 2 2 5 28.00 Item generated Aug 10 2018 1:06PM BPL NFX 26 213310-1 D774.I5 V56 2018 Boston Library 39999094341516 9 6 2 2 5 28.00 Item generated Aug 10 2018 1:06PM ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ NF 2018-09-05 28.00 7 1 940.54 VINC 37943 2021-05-08 2021-05-01 2018-09-05 BOOK