The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis

Witness History: World War Two history - A podcast by BBC World Service

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In the last days of World War II, an American warship, the USS Indianapolis, was torpedoed in the Pacific. For days, no one came to the survivors' rescue. Left adrift in shark-infested waters, hundreds of sailors died. We hear from Loel Dean Cox one of the few who survived.(Photo: Last rites for a crew member held by ship mates and men from the US base Peleliu) (Credit: TopFoto)