The USS Indianapolis was the last ship sunk during the Second World War. Savaged by a salvo of torpedoes from a Japanese submarine, the warship, one of the fastest in the US Navy, sank in a matter of minutes. One thousand two hundred men went into the water, & only 321 were to survive. This is their story.
On 30 July 1945 the Indianapolis was returning from the small island of Tinian, having delivered the components of the atom bomb