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"The youngest survivors of the USS Indianapolis are well into their 80s. Many are in their 90s. They have been having reunions since 1960.
By now they know each others' war stories — can practically finish each others' sentences — when it comes to details of their ship's sinking: How in July 1945 they delivered the key components of the Hiroshima-bound atomic bomb called Little Boy to the island of Tinian and how on the return trip a Japanese submarine fired two torpedoes into the ship's hull.
And how the ship sank in 12 minutes, and how they and their shipmates lucky enough not to have died in the explosions donned life jackets and jumped into the ocean, and how they huddled together in the sea and suffered in the heat of the day and at night froze, and how sharks circled and picked them off.
And how nobody came to rescue them for four days."
"The youngest survivors of the USS Indianapolis are well into their 80s. Many are in their 90s. They have been having reunions since 1960.
By now they know each others' war stories — can practically finish each others' sentences — when it comes to details of their ship's sinking: How in July 1945 they delivered the key components of the Hiroshima-bound atomic bomb called Little Boy to the island of Tinian and how on the return trip a Japanese submarine fired two torpedoes into the ship's hull.
And how the ship sank in 12 minutes, and how they and their shipmates lucky enough not to have died in the explosions donned life jackets and jumped into the ocean, and how they huddled together in the sea and suffered in the heat of the day and at night froze, and how sharks circled and picked them off.
And how nobody came to rescue them for four days."
