USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage HD VUDU CODE
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In 1945, the Portland-class heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis, commanded by Captain Charles B. McVay III, delivers parts of the atomic bomb that would later be used to bomb Hiroshima at the end of World War II. While crossing the Philippine Sea, on July 30 in 1945, the unescorted ship is torpedoed and sunk by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) submarine I-58, taking 300 crewmen with it to the bottom of the Philippine Sea, and the rest climb out of the ship and were left stranded at sea for five days without food and water in shark-infested waters.
With no hope for five days, most of the remaining crewmembers are eaten by sharks or die of salt water poisoning by drinking seawater, which also caused some of those injured to die from seasickness and infectious wounds. Others swim off from their groups after hallucinating a non-existent island, never to be seen again. On the fifth day, the surviving crew are spotted by a PBY Catalina, and rescue later arrives. Only 316 survived the disaster.
In 1945, the Portland-class heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis, commanded by Captain Charles B. McVay III, delivers parts of the atomic bomb that would later be used to bomb Hiroshima at the end of World War II. While crossing the Philippine Sea, on July 30 in 1945, the unescorted ship is torpedoed and sunk by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) submarine I-58, taking 300 crewmen with it to the bottom of the Philippine Sea, and the rest climb out of the ship and were left stranded at sea for five days without food and water in shark-infested waters.
With no hope for five days, most of the remaining crewmembers are eaten by sharks or die of salt water poisoning by drinking seawater, which also caused some of those injured to die from seasickness and infectious wounds. Others swim off from their groups after hallucinating a non-existent island, never to be seen again. On the fifth day, the surviving crew are spotted by a PBY Catalina, and rescue later arrives. Only 316 survived the disaster.
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