Shortly after midnight on July 30, 1945, toward the end of World War II, two Japanese torpedoes sunk the USS […] ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- On July 30, 1945, shortly after midnight, the USS Indianapolis was sunk by a Japanese submarine somewhere in the Philippine Sea. Roughly 300 of the sailors aboard went down with ...

On July 26, 1945, the heavy cruiser U.S.S. Indianapolis landed on Tinian Island in the northern Pacific and delivered components for the atomic bomb that 11 days later would be dropped on Hiroshima.

Character actor Lionel Barrymore, the great-uncle of Drew Barrymore, had a long friendship with former Indianapolis Symphony conductor Fabien Sevitzky.

What follows is his obituary, which was published in the Indianapolis Star (via Legacy.com): Charles ... was born fittingly on arguably the most joyous day in American history, August 14, 1945-V-J Day ...