In the final weeks of World War II, a Japanese torpedo sank an American heavy cruiser. Only 316 of the 900 sailors who survived the initial attack were ultimately rescued ...

The World War Two heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis has been found in the Pacific Ocean, 72 years after its sinking by a Japanese submarine. The warship was discovered 18,000 feet (5.5km) beneath the ...

A Navy veteran living in Benicia survived one of the most harrowing ordeals in World War II. An American flag flies ... ship he ever served aboard, the USS Indianapolis. In July 1945, the war ...

The Portland-class USS Indianapolis played an essential role in the outcome of World War II, being the ship that delivered components for the atomic bombs. As the flagship of the U.S. Fifth Fleet ...

The Allied and Axis forces lost thousands of ships during World War II, and many of those vessels ... "It is far worse than any of us had expected." The USS Juneau was lost at the Naval Battle ...

The crew of the USS Indiana, a Virginia-class, fast-attack submarine that spent three weeks in the seas near the North ...

The story of the mission and fate of the WWII heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis, told for the first time by the crew who experienced one of the greatest sea disasters in ...

Riveting historical drama about the sinking of the USS Indianapolis by Japanese forces in WWII, and the travails endured by the few survivors both while adrift in the Philippine Sea and during the ...

The USS Lexington was found 3km (2 miles ... list because she was one of the capital ships that was lost during WWII," Vulcan spokesman Robert Kraft said. Pictures from the seabed taken by ...

The transient dock at the park, the ferry boat landing and the veterans park at the city docks, all had visitors camped out ...