It was 79 years ago when a Japanese submarine torpedoed the USS Indianapolis, a heavy cruiser carrying nearly 1,200 sailors and Marines. The ship was sailing back to the Philippines after delivering ...

The U.S. Navy heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis (CA-35). Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. On July 30, 1945, USS Indianapolis got hit by a Japanese torpedo. It ...

The lore of the USS Indianapolis, a heavy cruiser assigned to Task Force 54, began when the gray lady saw extensive action before the invasion of Okinawa during March 1945 that resulted in the downing ...

For over 400 million years, sharks have been the monsters of the sea. With their torpedo-shaped bodies, coal-black eyes, and insatiable thirst for blood, each deliberate movement is a sinister dance ...

Phil Craig expected to tell a story about a shark feeding frenzy. But what the fi lmmaker found was something quite different.“We started making a fi lm about sharks and ended up with a fi lm about ...

Watch today’s video to discover the harrowing tale of the USS Indianapolis, a warship that sunk in the ocean, leaving ...

Aggressive oceanic whitetip sharks converged on the Indianapolis’ survivors after the torpedo attack. A spare parts box from the Indianapolis lies on the floor of the Pacific Ocean in more than 16,000 ...

When shark attacks appear in the news, they typically involve a single victim, maybe a swimmer or surfer who’s been bitten, or in rare worst-case scenarios, killed. These incidents, while frightening, ...

The oldest remaining survivor of the USS Indianapolis from WWII has died. The official Facebook page for the Naval ship that sank in July 1945 under enemy fire shared the news that its last living ...

The USS Indianapolis was the last major American ship sunk by enemy forces during WW II, with the largest loss of life of at sea in our nation's history, as some 300 men went down with the ship and ...