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Originally Posted by BossMark
July 26, 1945: USS Indianapolis at Tinian Island where she delivered the components for the atomic
bombs Fat Man and Little Boy which would be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan in August. |
Looks like a fine ship. On her way back, she was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine, but luckily the majority of her crew escaped. Unluckily, a large number of them were killed by sharks before they were finally picked up. It was the largest shark attack in history.
R.I.P.