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She was born from soil as American as the men who sailed her.
About this book
Based on a decade of original research and reporting, the riveting, emotionally wrenching, and definitive full story of the worst sea disaster in United States naval history: the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis during World War II—and the fifty-year fight to exonerate the captain after an unjust court-martial. USS Indianapolis sailors on liberty. Just after midnight on July 30, 1945, days after delivering the Hiroshima bomb from California to the Pacific islands in the most highly classified naval mission of the war, USS Indianapolis is sailing in the center of the Philippine Sea when she is struck by two Japanese torpedoes. The ship is instantly transformed into a fiery cauldron and sinks within minutes. Three hundred men go down with the ship. Nearly 900 make it into the water alive. For five nights and four days, almost three hundred miles from the nearest land, they battle injuries, sharks, dehydration, insanity, and eventually each other. Only 317 survive and scores go on to spend the next half-century fighting to clear the name of their captain, who was court-martialed for the sinking. Now, thanks to new research and firsthand interviews with 108 of the survivors over more than a decade, Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic tell the full story of the USS Indianapolis for the first time—an extraordinary human drama that brings the ship and its crew back to full, vivid, unforgettable life. ([source][1]) [1]: https://lynnvincent.com/books/indianapolis/overview/
Themes & subjects
historymilitarynonfictionmilitary historyWorld War IINaval history
Characters & people
Setting
Pacific OceanHiroshimaCaliforniaJapanWestern Europe1945
About the authors
Lynn Vincent
A veteran journalist and author of more than 1,000 articles, Lynn’s investigative pieces have been cited before Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court. She has been profiled in major media outlets, including Newsweek and The New Yorker. She is an accomplished writing instructor and public speaker, as well as the mother of the two handsomest, most brilliant sons in the universe. Lynn lives in the mountains east of San Diego with Danny, her husband of 30 years (and counting), and their three Labrador retrievers, Riggs, Abby and Treasure. ([source][1]) [1]: https://lynnvincent.com/biography/
Sara Vladic
Sara Vladic, an acclaimed documentary filmmaker, is one of the world’s leading experts on the USS Indianapolis, having become obsessed with the story at the age of thirteen. Over the next two decades, Vladic met and interviewed 108 of the ship’s survivors, and in 2016 she released an award-winning documentary film on the disaster, USS Indianapolis: The Legacy. She has published new research on Indianapolis in Proceedings, the official journal of the US Navy, and appeared as an expert commentator on PBS’s USS Indianapolis: Live from the Deep, which explored the ship’s wreckage. She and her husband, Ben, live in San Marcos, California.
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