INDIANAPOLIS — The last surviving Marine who was aboard the USS Indianapolis when it sunk during World War II has died at the age of 96. According to the official USS Indianapolis Facebook page, Edgar ...
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. – Serving aboard the USS Indianapolis in 1945, Seaman James Smith was sent to the brig for five days for leaving the ship to visit a girlfriend. What would happen next would make ...
The lore of the USS Indianapolis, a heavy cruiser assigned to Task Force 54, began when the gray lady saw extensive action before the invasion of Okinawa during March 1945 that resulted in the downing ...
Big Stone Gap, VA – The Mountain Empire Community College Foundation will host Edgar Harrell, survivor of the USS Indianapolis, next month. Harrell will deliver a free, public lecture as part of the ...
PENSACOLA, Fla. -- On July 30, 1945, shortly after midnight, the USS Indianapolis was sunk by a Japanese submarine somewhere in the Philippine Sea. Roughly 300 of the sailors aboard went down with the ...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — This week marks 80 years since the attack on the USS Indianapolis, which the Navy says had just finished delivering the parts of the atomic bomb that helped end World War II. The ...
INDIANAPOLIS (WRTV) -- Seventy-two years after two torpedoes fired from a Japanese submarine sunk cruiser USS Indianapolis, the ship’s wreckage was found resting on the seafloor on Saturday – more ...
Prologue: Sailor on a Chain -- Sailing To War -- All Aboard -- Good-bye, Golden Gate -- The First Domino -- Sunk -- The Burning Sea -- Abandon Ship -- Hope Afloat ...