USS Indianapolis: Disaster at Sea | Rediscovering Indy with Filmmaker Sara Vladic | 5

Against The Odds

Wondery

Cassie De Pecol, History, Society & Culture, Dolby, Mike Corey, Dolby Atmos, Atmos

4.7 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Sara Vladic was 13 when she first heard about USS Indianapolis while watching a World War II documentary with her dad. In just one sentence, the film described how the ship delivered the bomb that ended the war and then sank. For Sara, that moment would spark a decades-long journey to discover the untold story of Indy and its crew.

Sara spent years interviewing the survivors for her own documentary Indianapolis: The Legacy, and the book Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man. Today, she joins host Mike Corey to discuss Captain McVay’s trial, the ship’s recovery and the role Jaws played in reviving interest in Indy’s story.

This is the story of the greatest sea disaster in U.S. naval history, and the courageous men who survived it.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Against the Odds at Free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:14.1	From Wondery, I'm Mike Corey, and this is Against the Odds.
0:18.4	Over the last four episodes, we've told the story of USS Indianapolis. In the final months of World War II,
0:31.4	the Navy ship was en route to the Philippines when it was blasted by torpedoes from Japanese submarine.
0:37.2	Those who survived the attack were plunged into the ocean, where they would wait five days to be rescued,
0:43.5	of the roughly 1200 crew members, only 316 survived. Today, I'm speaking with author and filmmaker
0:52.3	Sarah Vlatic, for her documentary USS Indianapolis The Legacy, Sarah spent a decade interviewing the
0:59.0	survivors and their families. She's also co-author of the book Indianapolis, The True Story of the
1:05.3	worst sea disaster in US naval history, and the 50-year fight to exonerate an innocent man.
1:11.2	And in 2017, she was the first person to call the survivors when the wreckage of the ship had
1:16.8	finally been found 72 years after its sank. Sarah Vlatic, welcome to Against the Odds.
1:23.5	Thank you for having me, Mike. I have to tell you, before this story came on my lap here,
1:29.6	I had never heard of it before, and I became the guy over the holiday break, talking about it to
1:35.2	everyone, because I became almost obsessed with the story and the layers and the complexity,
1:41.2	and for me, being able to read all this and understand it was just mind-blowing. So,
1:47.8	tell me the story of how you first came across this amazing part of history.
1:51.6	Similarly, I heard about it and became obsessed, but initially, I was watching a documentary
1:58.5	with my dad. I was about 13, and they're talking about World War II, and then in one sentence,
2:05.6	they said, it was the ship that carried the bomb and ended the war, and it was sunk.
2:09.6	And that was it. It was like, excuse me. It did all these things, and it got one line at the end
2:15.9	of a documentary. And so, I was totally that kid that went to the library and looked for it and
2:22.0	tried to find anything I could find on it, and there was nothing. It wasn't in history books.
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