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Over here.

Just after midnight, on the 30th of July, 1945, the USS Indianapolis was sunk by two torpedoes fired from a Japanese submarine.

1,196 souls were on board. Within 12 minutes, 300 of their number had perished, before the massive ship disappeared beneath the surface.

The remaining men, those who could swim anyway, made it out into the open water.

For the next five days, burning under a merciless sun, slowly driven mad by thirst and starvation,

the survivors huddling together in the water found themselves stranded, hundreds of miles from

land, praying for rescue. But although the ship's radio man did manage to send out a distress

call before abandoning the ship it was ignored no one

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