Jaws uss indianapolis. Watch the movie read the book. On august 6 1945 the weapon would level hiroshima. More than 72 years after it sank in july 1945 the final resting place of uss.
Launched in 1931 the indianapolis was once the pride of the. Last weekend 19 20 august the expedition crew of microsoft co founder paul allens research vessel petrel announced they had found the wreckage of the uss indianapolis 5500 metres 34. Launched in 1931 the vessel served as the flagship for the commander of scouting force 1 for eight years then as flagship for admiral raymond spruance in 1943 and 1944 while he commanded the fifth fleet in battles across the central pacific during world war ii.
The actual history of the uss indianapolis is so harrowing that its surprising it took a movie like jaws to make it a household name. Jaws by peter benchley. The uss indianapolis had delivered the crucial components of the first operational atomic bomb to a naval base on the pacific island of tinian.
In august 2017 researchers announced they had found one of historys most significantand sought aftershipwrecks. Quint tells hooper and brody his story of what happenned to him on the uss indianapolis. The uss indianapolis at pearl harbor in 1937 won 10 battle stars during world war ii and delivered components of the atomic bomb that was dropped on hiroshima japan.
It was lost to a japanese. In july 1945 indianapolis completed a top secret high speed trip to deliver parts of little boy the first nucl.