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“I got my blanket I didn’t get my cape on or life jacket I don't need that,” said Edgar Harrell, survivor of the USS Indianapolis. The sinking of the USS Indianapolis was the worst accident to ever happen in Naval history with over 900 men entering the water, only 316 survived. “We were losing three or four each night and day” said Cox. It became normal to see shark fins swimming at you. The sinking of the USS Indianapolis could have been prevented if the Guam Naval Base had warned the ship about the submarines, if more people knew about the ship, and if the three distress signals sent to Naval Base Guam were taken seriously.

command. Although lives were lost in both tragedies, the incidents that occurred on the USS

Ford Island had been hit bomb and torpedoes. One of the ships the USS Arizona was

The USS Indianapolis sink July 30, 1945. Many sailors dead. The people know how they died,

Wednesday evening June 3, aboard the carrier Hornet, Lieutenant Commander John Waldron gathered the members of Torpedo Squadron 8 (VT-8) for a briefing. VT-8 was flying the obsolete 1930’s vintage Douglas Devastators torpedo planes. They had not received a lot of flight training in their ten months in the navy. Most members had never taken off of a carrier carrying a torpedo but just six weeks earlier they had watch Doolittle’s B-25 bombers take off the Hornet for the raid on Tokyo. If Doolittle’s pilots could take off in a bomber, the members of VT-8 could handle taking off with a torpedo. A Japanese task force was threatening Midway Island and a battle to stop them was expected to occur tomorrow. Waldron told them not to worry about navigation but to just follow him. Waldron finished his briefing by

The sinking caused many problems. As a result of the sinking, a lot of sailors died. The men were in the water for way too long. They were exposed to a lot of things while they were in the middle of the ocean. They were exposed to sharks, seawater, oil, sun rays, and even cannibalism. All of those things played a major role in a lot of the men dying. Maybe not as many of them would have died if help would have came faster. What took the help so long to get there?

Between December eighteenth and December twenty-fourth in 1941, nine U.S. merchant ships were attacked off of the coast of the San Francisco Bay by the Japanese Imperial Navy. Two of the nine were damaged so severely that their demise into the sea became inevitable. After the ghastly attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, these minuscule-in-comparison acts of provocation went unnoticed and unaccounted for by the American public. Ironically enough, the coast of California, where so many ships would be destroyed in the path of war, became the place where so many were then created on the same path. As multiple shipyards

Multiple simultaneous complex attacks destroyed vital friendly crew-served and indirect fire weapons systems during the initial attack. Enemy forces then started to advance on the platoon’s defensive positions.

It was all so incredible, than they were told of the ships off the coast, one was an aircraft carrier, which the Soldiers found hard to believe. The civilians told them

lives were ended as a result of this unnatural disaster, most of them civilian. The people

The explosions caused great damage. The Indianapolis took on a heavy water. Twelve minutes later, she rolled completely over, then her stern rose into the air, and she plunged straight down into the ocean. Some 300 of the 1,196 crewmen went down with the ship. With very scarce lifeboats and many without lifejackets, the remainder of the crew were set adrift. The navy blamed the sinking on the captain which was Butler McVay. They blamed this on him because he did not use a zig zagging maneuver. Which would have prevented this tragic

They did not die,they were still alive, according to the story.But there is another side to the story to make people think that they died trying.

The battleships, primary targets in the attack, remained anchored along an area referred to as “Battleship Row”. Within minutes after the assault began the USS Arizona sunk to the bottom of the bay taking 1,177 lives with her

It seemed that war was inevitable. No one would have ever guessed that Japan would start the war with an attack on American territory. People viewed it as being terribly inconvenient since Japan and Hawaii were so far away. The two were over 4,000 miles apart. For another reason, American intelligence officials were confident that any Japanese attack would take place in one of the nearby European colonies in the South Pacific like the Dutch East Indies, Singapore or Indochina. Because American military leaders were not expecting an attack so close to home, the naval facilities at Pearl Harbor were not necessarily prepared. Almost the entire Pacific Fleet was moored around Ford Island in the harbor, and hundreds of airplanes were squeezed onto adjacent airfields. To the Japanese, Pearl Harbor was an irresistible target. The Japanese plan was very simple: “Destroy the Pacific Fleet. That way, the Americans would not be able to fight back as Japan’s armed forces spread across the South Pacific.” On December 7, 1941, after months of planning and practice, the Japanese finally launched their attack on Pearl

“We were losing three or four each night and day,” said Loel Dean Cox, a survivor of the USS Indianapolis tragedy. The USS Indianapolis was a Naval cruiser that was hit with a torpedo and sunk in the Philippine Sea on July 30, 1945. The ship had over 1,200 men on board, with 800 made it into the water, and only 316 survived after being rescued. The men spent four days in the shark infested waters, now the USS Indianapolis tragedy is called the worst shark attack in history. The USS Indianapolis tragedy could have been avoided if Captain McVay’s request for a destroyer escort was approved, the ship was informed of the nearby Japanese submarines before the accident, and if the mission was not as secret, Naval Base Guam could have realized something