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Now available for the first time in trade paperback, the bestselling account of America’s worst naval disaster—and of the heroism of the men who, against all odds, survived On July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine. An estimated three... read more

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First Sentence

The ship was still tied up in the harbor at Mare Island, but already the captain felt it was drifting out of his control.

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  1. Doug Stanton (Author)
 

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