Author: Stanton, Doug,
Title: IN HARM'S WAY - The Sinking of USS INDIANAPOLIS and the Extraordinary story of Its Survivors.
Description: Bantam. London, 2002, paperback, 411pp,16pp half tone photo ills., in text photo ports. of crew members at chapter heads, [iii] ads., pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis in the South Pacific in July 1945, en route to San Francisco after delivering the components of Little Boy, the Hiroshima atomic bomb, to Tinian the vessel was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. Of a crew of 1196 men an estiomated 300 died on impact and the remaining 900 went into the sea. Undertected for five days by the timer rescue arrived only 317 were left alive, edges tanned, fine,
Keywords: war ww2 us navy indianapolis tinian little boy atom bomb
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Title: IN HARM'S WAY - The Sinking of USS INDIANAPOLIS and the Extraordinary story of Its Survivors.
Description: Bantam. London, 2002, paperback, 411pp,16pp half tone photo ills., in text photo ports. of crew members at chapter heads, [iii] ads., pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis in the South Pacific in July 1945, en route to San Francisco after delivering the components of Little Boy, the Hiroshima atomic bomb, to Tinian the vessel was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. Of a crew of 1196 men an estiomated 300 died on impact and the remaining 900 went into the sea. Undertected for five days by the timer rescue arrived only 317 were left alive, edges tanned, fine,
Keywords: war ww2 us navy indianapolis tinian little boy atom bomb
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- Book number: 44504
- Book number: 44504
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