** The loss of the USS Indianapolis is still the single largest United States war loss at sea.
** The USS Indianapolis Survivors Association just had their 72nd anniversary reunion in Indianapolis, Indiana, from July 27-July 30.
** The people who found the ship are on the Research Vessel Petrel, owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
** The Japanese submarine IJN I-58 fired two torpedoes.
** The I-58 was surrendered to the U.S. and scuttled 1 April 1946.
** It's wreck was found just three months before the wreck of the Indianapolis was discovered, May 25, 2017.
--GreGen
My Cooter's History Blog has become about 80% World War II anyway, so I figured to start a blog specific to it, especially since we're commemorating its 70th anniversary and we are quickly losing this "Greatest Generation." The quote is taken from Pearl Harbor survivor Frank Curre, who was on the USS Tennessee that day. He died Dec. 7, 2011, seventy years to the day. His photo is below at right.
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