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Originally Posted by NoBozo
I have no idea what that was about. Maybe it's the story the story of the USS Indianapolis at the end of WWII. If memoery serves me there were THREE survivors of a Shark Fest after the ship had been torpedoed..... the war had ended...and the ship was homeward bound. There was a Jap sub that didn't get the word.
The Captain of the Indianopolis did not follow the rules of wartime engagement and elected to steam in a straight line toward home instead of following a "Sinuous Compass Course". (ZIG ZAG).. I believe he was later court marshalled....the remaining crew stuck up for him. It didn't matter.
Sorry for the history lesson out of hand. NB
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I believe around 300 survived. USS Indianopolis was on a return trip from dropping off the better part of "Little Boy", one of the nuclear bombs that ended WW2.