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An estimated 300 men were killed when the Japanese torpedoed the USS Indianapolis. about 900 others were to survive for four days in the water, the sharks had a feast. They were 350 miles from land and nobody knew they were in trouble. 317 men were finally rescued. If the ship had been torpedoed just a few days earlier, WWII would have ended much differently; in the ships hold was the atomic bomb. Without the bomb, as horrible as it was, an estimated one million Americans would've been killed invading Japan. On Nov. 6 1968, the ships Captain killed himself standing on the front porch of his home. Some casualties come long after the battle is over... 'In many history books, the sinking of the Indianapolis isn't mentioned; in some ways, it's as if the ship set sail and has never come home. But to this day, the disaster haunts the Department of the Navy, and it haunts these men. At night, some of them still reach out from sleep to grip a bed they are sure is sinking beneath them.' --IN HARM'S WAY by Doug Stanton SEMPER!