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Fatal Voyage: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis

Description

Shortly after midnight on July 30, 1945, the Navy cruiser USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in the Philippine Sea. The ship had just left the island of Tinian, delivering components of the atomic bomb destined for Hiroshima. As the torpedoes hit, the Indianapolis erupted into a fiery coffin, sinking in less than fifteen minutes and leaving nine hundred crewmen fighting for life in shark-infested waters. They expected a swift, routine rescue, unaware that the Navy high command didn’t even realize that the Indianapolis was missing. Help would not arrive for another five days.

Drawn from definitive interviews with key figures, Fatal Voyage recounts the horrific events endured as the number of water-treading survivors dwindled to just 316. Each gruesome day brought more madness and slow death, from explosion-related injuries, dehydration, and, most terrifying of all, shark attacks. But the pain did not end when the men finally returned home: The Indianapolis’s commander, Captain Charles B. McVay III, was court-martialed for causing the clearly unavoidable disaster.

With a new afterword chronicling the fifty-five-year campaign by Indianapolis survivors and their supporters to win public vindication for Captain McVay, this classic is restored, along with memories of the Indianapolis crew.

Reviews

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2008-11-19
Summary: "Bizarre and tragic postscript to the Pacific war"

Author Dan Kurzman here tells the story of the sinking of the heavy cruiser Indianapolis by a Japanese submarine, only days after it had delivered key components of the atomic bomb to Tinian in the Marianas and only days before the bomb was dropped. Due to various foul-ups in communication and withheld information, the Indianapolis is not only sunk but its drifting survivors languish for days amidst sharks and maddening thirst and exposure before being rescued. What results is the largest loss of life from a single vessel at sea in U.S. navy history.

Captain McVay, the Indianapolis' skipper, is put on trial and set up to be the scapegoat. Since the war is now over, we are made to witness the unprecedented spectacle of the skipper of the Japanese submarine that sank the Indianapolis, Commander Mochitsura Hashimoto, being presented as a witness at McVay's trial.

Kurzman follows the aftermath of the sinking and trial in the course of McVay's life after the war. The story gives some good insight into how the military covers its tracks in these types of embarrassing situations.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2007-09-09
Summary: "Well Written Account of a Tragic Tale"

This book is my first real experience with the USS Indianapolis. Kurzman has written an excellent narrative of the incredible ordeal suffered by the American heroes aboard the ill fated heavy cruiser. The book seems to be well researched with plenty of first hand sources, and I have yet to find any conflicting information on the web, or elsewhere. I highly recommend the book to those with an interest in World War II, Naval History, or incredible survival. I should note that Kurzman seems dismissive of the religious beliefs of the crew, which is a regrettable flaw in an otherwise excellent book.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2004-05-20
Summary: "As bad as it gets (the story, not the book), even in war"

I've read most if not all of the handful of books available on the USS Indianapolis, and this was the best and most readable factual account of the grim story. After successfully completing its top secret mission to deliver the bomb that ended WWII, the Indianapolis was torpedoed by an enemy sub as it sailed home. Most of her crew died in the water, many eaten by sharks, as horrified survivors watched helplessly. It would be days before the first survivors were rescued. But this is not the end of the story. The captain of the Indianapolis was put on trial where, in an unprecedented move, the Japanese sub commander was brought to the American courtroom to essentially testify against the captain. The two military leaders were brought face to face; the men of the Indianapolis who were also in court had to passively regard the enemy sub commander who had sunk their ship. Although ultimately exonerated, the captain killed himself.

It was very hard to believe the U.S. Navy managed to keep something secret that is still regarded as the worst naval disaster in US history. But I asked a relative who sailed the Atlantic on the same mission as the Indianapolis, delivering weaponry to Allies, if he heard the story, rumors, anything at all about this at the time it happened, and he assured me that no one knew anything about it. Amazing, considering he spent the war on ships sailing similar high risk missions. His ship was part of the great fleet that delivered the guns for the Normandy invasion. He said the battleships escorting them actually outnumbered the fleet: more ships were sent to protect them than ships carrying the weapons. Later in the Pacific, the men of the Indianapolis had no escort or protection at all.

There is a small but beautiful monument in honor of these men in Indianapolis, where survivors still gather once a year. I think one of the reasons this story is little known even today is that it's simply too big and too horrifying for Hollywood to handle. I did see a well done documentary recently, which showed available photography and interviewed survivors, in their 80s by this time. Every one of them still wept at the memory.

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Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2004-03-15
Summary: "a tragicly written tradgedy"

this book states all the facts but what is missing is the first hand accounts of being in the water. the author would have done more justice to the reader interviewing more of the survivors and japanese servicemen. this book is written too much of a second-hand account

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2003-10-20
Summary: "Excellent Read"

I read this book cover to cover in 2 days and found it very well written. Unlike other books regarding the tragedy surrounding the U.S.S. Indianapolis, the author did not linger too greatly on the court-martial aspect, but rather, went into detail about the crewmembers and their individual experiences which moved me emotionally as I read each of their accounts. The author did a nice job of allowing the entire story to unfold without cramming the pages with technical jargon or statistics which would otherwise impede my reading. Out of all the books I have read on the U.S.S. Indianapolis, this one was the only one to go into detail about the further ordeal of Crewman Adolfo Celaya who survived the sinking, the sharks, and the entirely horrendous and unspeakable ordeal only to be mistreated by his rescuers. At the end of the book, I was left so angry that he had to endure this treatment coupled by the fact that no other book that I had read on this subject mentions him and the treatment he received, except this one. Anyone who has an interest in the tragedy of the U.S.S. Indianapolis should read this book.