All the Drowned Sailors: Cover-Up of America's Greatest Wartime Disaster at Sea, Sinking of the Indianapolis with the Loss of 880 Lives Because of the Incompetence of Admirals, Officers, & Gentlemen PDF
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$16.95 ALLTH DROWNED SAILORS Raymond B. Lech On July 30, 1945, at 12:05 A.M., four days after the U.S.S. Indianapolis, flagship of the massive Pacific Fifth Fleet, delivered the components of the Hiroshima bomb to Tinian, and just a few weeks before Vj Day, she was torpedoed by a Japanese sub- marine and sank within 15 minutes. Of the 1,196 men on board, approxi- mately 400 went down with the ship, and 800 safely abandoned her. Of these 800 men in the water, only 316 survived. This is the never-before-told story of what was America's greatest war- time sea disaster; of what really happened to the Indianapolis and her crew; why she should never have been sunk in the first place; why the U.S. Navy left her crew drifting in shark-infested waters for four days even though they knew she was missing; and, after heads were acci- dentally seen bobbing in the water, why the Navy began a massive cover- up that lasted for over thirty years. Previously unavailable filesobtained bytheauthor reveal startling evidence (Continued on back flap) ALL THE DROWNED SAILORS \ ALL THE DROWNEI 5*•. .<^ SAILORS Raymond Lech B. ^ STEIN AND DAV/Publishersmew York All the names in this book are real, with one exception. First published in 1982 Copyright '^ 1982 by Raymond B. Lech All rights reserved Designed by Louis A. Ditizio Printed in the United States ofAmerica STEIN AND DAY/Publishers Scarborough House BriarcliffManor, N.Y. 10510 Library ofCongress Cataloging in Publication Data Lech, Raymond B., 1940- All thedrowned sailors. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Indianapolis (Cruiser) 2. World War, 1939- 1945—Naval operations, American. I. Title. D774.15L4 1982 940.54'5973 82-40006 ISBN 0-8128-2881-X To my Captain: Bernadette To my Crew: Barbara and Christopher and To the surviving survivors of the U.S.S. Indianapolis
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