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

340 Pages·1982·33.537 MB·English

by  Lech, Raymond B

$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)

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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