{"id":74096,"date":"2017-08-20T08:09:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T12:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=74096"},"modified":"2017-08-20T08:22:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T12:22:39","slug":"indianapolis-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74096","title":{"rendered":"INDIANAPOLIS found"},"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=\"\" 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>On July 30, 1945, the Portland-class heavy cruiser USS INDIANAPOLIS (CA-35) was returning from delivering parts for the &#8220;Little Boy&#8221; atomic bomb when it was struck by two torpedoes fired by the Japanese submarine I-58. The ship sank in about 12 minutes with about 300 crew members aboard. About 900 would survive the initial sinking, but by the time they were rescued, five days later, only 317 of the 1,119 total crew were recovered. The story of their survival was featured in the movie &#8220;Jaws&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xO60RohuARY?start=150\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/paul-allen-finds-lost-wwii-ship-uss-indianapolis\/ar-AAql9Fy?li=BBmkt5R&#038;ocid=spartanntp\">MSN<\/a>, entrepreneur and billionaire Paul Allen claims to have found the wreckage of the INDIANAPOLIS 18,000 feet below the ocean&#8217;s surface.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cTo be able to honor the brave men of the USS Indianapolis and their families through the discovery of a ship that played such a significant role in ending World War II is truly humbling,\u201d Allen said in a statement. \u201cAs Americans, we all owe a debt of gratitude to the crew for their courage, persistence and sacrifice in the face of horrendous circumstances. While our search for the rest of the wreckage will continue, I hope everyone connected to this historic ship will feel some measure of closure at this discovery so long in coming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Allen\u2019s team is still surveying the site of the wreckage and plans to conduct a live tour of the wreckage in the next few weeks. The crew is working with the Navy and plans to honor the remaining 22 USS Indianapolis crew members and families of crew members.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/navy\/wreckage-of-sunken-wwii-warship-uss-indianapolis-discovered-navy-announces-1.483641#.WZl7NOmQyUn\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> While others have searched for Indianapolis in the past, the Navy release said Allen used a  250-foot R\/V Petrel with state-of-the-art subsea equipment capable of diving to more than 19,600 feet. <\/p>\n<p>The Navy said the exact location of the ship will remain confidential and restricted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 30, 1945, the Portland-class heavy cruiser USS INDIANAPOLIS (CA-35) was returning from delivering parts &hellip; <a title=\"INDIANAPOLIS found\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74096\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">INDIANAPOLIS found<\/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-74096","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\/74096","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=74096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74096\/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=74096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}