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

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

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.

The USS Indianapolis CA 35 was a Portland-class heavy cruiser in the U.S. Navy that was struck by Japanese torpedoes while en route from Guam to the Leyte Gulf in the Philippines in July 1945.

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Among the Indianapolis crew alone ... They couldn’t do that in 1945 but we can do it now. I was proud of my role in all of that, even though I was kind of working against my Navy.