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From: olorin@wam.umd.edu (David John Schuetz)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: USS Indianapolis
Message-ID: <1990Aug31.030954.24690@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 31 Aug 90 03:09:54 GMT
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From: olorin@wam.umd.edu (David John Schuetz)
In article <1990Aug29.014602.7783@cbnews.att.com> G_AHRENDT@VAXA.CC.UWA.OZ.AU (Gunter Ahrendt) writes:
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>From: G_AHRENDT@VAXA.CC.UWA.OZ.AU (Gunter Ahrendt)
>>powerful US ships.)  Even the submarine threat was discounted (prematurely;
>>Lt. Cmdr. Hashimoto was able to sink USS Indianapolis in August.  Nonetheless, 
>I read this was the 29-JUL-1945. Is it true that no rescue was mounted for the 
>survivors due to the vessel being on a 'secret' mission?

The version I read said that they were keeping radio traffic to a minimum, for
obvious reasons, and that somehow the American command managed not to notice 
one of their battleships was missing for three days.  Of course, this led
to the deaths of many of the initial survivors.  So the Navy, in its usual
glorious logic, courtmartialed the battleship  captain, instead of the idiots
who mounted rescue operations too late.  What was the charge, "failure to
zig-zag in moonlight" or something like that? 
 
Laura Burchard




[mod.note:  The USS Indianapolis was a heavy cruiser, not a battleship.
	- Bill ]