Carol Burnside has gotten to know the survivors really well. She has been attending these reunions since she was ten. her father was the pilot, Chuck Gwinn, who spotted the survivors bobbing in the Pacific Ocean four days into their ordeal. Had he not done so, many more would have been lost. The survivors call him "The Angel."
On the last day of the reunion, on Sunday, during a memorial service for the deceased, it was announced that Florian Stamm, 91, of Wisconsin, had died the night before. His 24-year-old grandson made a film about the Indianapolis' survivors for a class project.
There are now just 31 survivors of the USS Indianapolis.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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