The Tragic Fate of the U.S.S. Indianapolis

The U.S. Navy's Worst Disaster at Sea

By (author) Raymond B. Lech

Paperback - £14.99

Publication date:

14 January 2001

Length of book:

336 pages

Publisher

Cooper Square Press

ISBN-13: 9780815411208

On July 29, 1945, four days after delivering the atomic bomb destined for Hiroshima, the U.S.S. Indianapolis was torpedoed and sunk. of the 1,199 men on board, 883 perished. Culled from previously unavailable files, this is the chilling story of how the U. S. Navy left the crew in shark-infested waters for four days, and why only a fraction of the 800 men who safely abandoned the ship survived the ordeal. This is the true story of the massive thirty-year cover-up that followed.
Much of this grim tale was secreted away for decades in classified military files, from which Mr. Lech has now managed to pry the facts. The evidence he has collected is compelling.