00:00Did you know that in 1945, during World War II, a Japanese submarine sank the USS Indianapolis?
00:06causing one of the worst naval disasters in U.S. history?
00:11The USS Indianapolis had completed a secret mission,
00:14deliver components of the atomic bomb that would be dropped on Hiroshima.
00:18On July 30, 1945, the Japanese submarine IP-58 torpedoed the cruiser.
00:23The ship sank in just 12 minutes.
00:25Of the 1,196 crew members, approximately 900 survived the sinking and reached the water, but their nightmare was just beginning.
00:33The survivors floated in the water for four days.
00:36Many died from shark attacks, dehydration, and heatstroke.
00:40Only 316 survived.
00:42Although the Indianapolis sent a distress signal, rescue only came when an airplane spotted them by chance.
00:48The captain of the Indianapolis, Charles B. McVeigh Derrere, was tried in a court-martial,
00:53But he was exonerated and later posthumously exonerated by Congress in 2000.
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