"The Tragic Fate of the USS Indianapolis" Topic
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Tango01 | 02 Aug 2015 9:51 p.m. PST |
"On July 28, 1945, Capt. Charles Butler McVay III stood on the bridge of the USS Indianapolis as it eased out of the harbor in Guam and headed east into the vast open water of the Pacific Ocean. McVay's ship was a 610-foot Portland class heavy cruiser weighing 9,800 tons. Along with the USS Houston, which had been sunk with great loss of life in early 1942, the Indianapolis had been one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's favorite ships. Commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1932, the Indy had been chosen as FDR's "Ship of State"—a kind of pre-war version of Air Force One—on several important trips, including his "good neighbor" voyage to South America in 1936. Three years earlier, following her shakedown cruise, the Indianapolis had picked up FDR at his Campobello Island summer home off the coast of Maine. The ship carried the president, himself a former secretary of the Navy, to the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis…" Full article here link link Amicalement Armand |
Tango01 | 03 Aug 2015 10:38 a.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed the reading my good friend!. (smile) Amicalement Armand |
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