** 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
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