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The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis (Preview)
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It is the most horrific tale from the most catastrophic war the World has ever known. It is the story of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis, the warship that had just completed its top secret mission to deliver the uranium needed to build the first atomic bomb that would be dropped on Hiroshima , Japan.
It would be sunk by a Japanese submarine as it traveled through the Philippine Sea on its way to Leyte, in the Philippines. the story was largely forgotten, even at the time, by a U.S. Government that had just won the war, announcing the sinking at the same time as the…
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