In harm's way, the sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the extraordinary story of its survivors, Doug Stanton
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In harm's way, the sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the extraordinary story of its survivors, Doug Stanton
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eng
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non fiction
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In harm's way
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Doug Stanton
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Accelerated Reader AR, UG, 8.3, 14.0, 84910.
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the sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the extraordinary story of its survivors
Summary
On July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine. An estimated 300 men were killed upon impact; close to 900 sailors were cast into the Pacific Ocean, where they remained undetected by the navy for nearly four days and nights. Battered by a savage sea, they struggled to stay alive, fighting off sharks, hypothermia, and dementia. The captain's subsequent court-martial left many questions unanswered: How did the navy fail to realize the Indianapolis was missing? And perhaps most amazing of all, how did these 317 men manage to survive?
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