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Torpedoed and sunk
- While patrolling in the Philippine Sea, on July 30 in 1945, the unescorted ship is torpedoed and sunk by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) submarine I-58, taking 300 crewmen with it to the bottom of the Philippine Sea, while the rest climb out of the ship and were left stranded at sea for five days without food and water in shark-infested waters.
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In 1945, the Portland-class heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis, commanded by Captain Charles McVay, delivers parts of the atomic bomb that would later be used to bomb Hiroshima at the end of World War II.
Nov 11, 2015 · On their return trip home, a Japanese submarine fired two torpedoes into the Indianapolis, sinking the ship in just 12 minutes. “Of the 1,200 men on the ship, 800 men survived the...
Set in mid-1945 during World War II, the USS Indianapolis, led by Captain Charles McVay (Nicolas Cage), was secretly tasked to deliver parts of an atomic bomb (which would later be dropped on Hiroshima) unescorted to a naval base in the Pacific.
- (15K)
- Action, Drama, History
- Mario Van Peebles
- 2016-10-14
Jul 29, 2016 · The USS Indianapolis, at Pearl Harbor in 1937, won 10 battle stars during World War II and delivered components of the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. It was lost to a...
Nov 11, 2016 · He was posthumously exonerated by President Clinton in 2000. You’d think, maybe, that they’d have made a movie about this event a long time ago. But if you thought harder immediately thereafter, you’d understand why they didn’t.
USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage (known in the Philippines as USS Indianapolis: Disaster in the Philippine Sea) is a 2016 World War II film directed by Mario Van Peebles, starring Nicolas Cage as Captain/Rear Admiral Charles McVay III, Thomas Jane as Lt. Adrian Marks, Tom Sizemore as Petty Officer McWhorter, and James Remar as Admiral William S ...
Oct 14, 2016 · PLOT: Following a top-secret mission to deliver parts of the atomic bomb in the summer of 1945, the USS Indianapolis is sunk by a Japanese sub. The survivors, including Captain Charles McVay...
