In Harm's Way

By: Doug Stanton;

Language: English

Quality: Like New

Genre: History,

ISBN: 9780593047408

SKU: BE500431861257

Pages: 333

Description: On July 30, 1945, after completing a top secret mission to deliver parts of the atom bomb "Little Boy," which would be dropped on Hiroshima,the battle cruiser USS Indianapolis was torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine. An estimated 300 men were killed upon impact; close to 900 sailors were cast into the Pacific Ocean, where they remained, undetected by the navy, for nearly five days. Battered by a savage sea, they struggled to survive, fighting off hypothermia, sharks, physical and mental exhaustion, and, finally, hallucinatory dementia. By the time rescue--which was purely accidental--arrived, all but 321 men had lost their lives; 4 more would die in military hospitals shortly thereafter.