{"id":67074,"date":"2016-07-25T10:57:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T14:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67074"},"modified":"2016-07-25T10:57:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T14:57:44","slug":"more-information-on-uss-indianapolis-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67074","title":{"rendered":"More information on USS Indianapolis discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=67075\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67075\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/USS-Indianapolis-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"USS Indianapolis\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-67075\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/USS-Indianapolis-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/USS-Indianapolis-490x333.jpg 490w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/USS-Indianapolis.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.navy.mil\/browse-by-topic\/disasters-and-phenomena\/indianapolis.html\">Naval History and Heritage Command<\/a> sends us word that they have uncovered more information that may help them find the wreckage of USS Indianapolis. The ship had just finished a secret mission to deliver parts of the atomic bomb that fell on Hiroshima to an island in the Marianas chain and it was on it&#8217;s way to the Philippine Island of Leyte when it was struck by a Japanese torpedo and sunk. Robert Shaw tells the tale of what happened after that in the movie Jaws;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u9S41Kplsbs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Of the 1,196 Sailors and Marines on the ship, only 316 survived. The new information comes from a blog post;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While reviewing the Navy\u2019s holdings and other information related to Indianapolis, NHHC historian Richard Hulver, Ph.D., found a blog post and photo online that recounted the story of a World War II Sailor whose ship passed Indianapolis less than a day before the ship was sunk. This corroborated an account by Indianapolis Captain Charles McVay, III that his ship passed an unspecified LST approximately 11 hours prior to the sinking. Hulver located the Sailor\u2019s service record from the National Personnel Records Center which identified the Sailor as a passenger on tank landing ship USS LST-779 during the period in which Indianapolis sank. That sent Hulver to the National Archives where LST-779\u2019s deck logs confirmed the story.<br \/>\n    The meeting between Indianapolis and LST-779 has been seemingly overlooked in previous studies of Indianapolis.<br \/>\n    \u201cIt\u2019s obviously gratifying to find a part of the story that hasn\u2019t been told\u2014to discover a new part of an important episode in U.S. naval history,\u201d said Hulver. \u201cBut more importantly, the Navy has an obligation to honor the sacrifice of those who serve. NHHC does this by expanding the body of knowledge about our Navy\u2019s history.\u201d<br \/>\n    Hulver continued, \u201cThe LST-779 data sheds new light on where Indianapolis was attacked and sunk.\u201d This brings us closer to discovering the final resting place of the ship and many of her crew. It has been humbling and an honor to learn more about the crew of Indianapolis and do my small part to ensure that their story lives on. I\u2019m honored to a part of that effort.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Naval History and Heritage Command sends us word that they have uncovered more information that &hellip; <a title=\"More information on USS Indianapolis discovered\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67074\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More information on USS Indianapolis discovered<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}