Description: A site dedicated to the brave men of the U.S.S. Indianapolis [CA-35]. Also an interactive lecture and social experiment to share the experiences of those who survived the event.
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Below are the eyewitness accounts of their experiences:
Born: 04.12.26 Passed: 01.25.15 [88 Years of age]
Decades after the event, Loel Dene Cox recounted some of the trials of the survivors in harrowing detail, in an interview with the BBC World Service: "You could barely keep your face out of the water. The life preserver had blisters on my shoulders, blisters on top of blisters. It was so hot we would pray for dark, and when it got dark we would pray for daylight, because it would get so cold, our teeth would chatter. The drinking water was kept on the second deck of our ship. A buddy of mine was hallucinati