On July 29, 1945, four days after delivering the atomic bomb destined for Hiroshima, the U. S.S. Indianapolis was torpedoed and sunk. of the 1, 199 men on board, 883 perished. Culled from previously unavailable files, this is the chilling story of how the U. S. Navy left the crew in shark-infested waters for four days, and why only a fraction of the 800 men who safely abandoned the ship survived the ordeal. This is the true story of the massive thirty-year cover-up that followed. | The Tragic Fate of the U. S.S. Indianapolis by Raymond B. Lech, Paperback | Indigo Chapters | The Tragic Fate of the U.S.S. Indianapolis by Raymond B. Lech, Paperback | Indigo Chapters