Survivors of 1. 94. USS Indianapolis describe explosions and shark attacks during worst sea disaster in U.

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The story of the USS Indianapolis is one of the most harrowing in United States history. The Navy ship, a heavy cruiser, was tasked with a top-secret mission in the.

S. naval history. The Indianapolis was torpedoed in the South Pacific in July 1.

Tinian. Survivors of the blasts spent nearly a week in shark- infested waters fighting off attacks. Of the ships 1,1. Watch Black Mountain Side HD 1080P. By. Daily Mail Reporter. GMT, 4 August 2. 01. GMT, 4 August 2. 01. More than a dozen men who survived the worst sea disaster in U.

S. naval history - the World War II sinking of the USS Indianapolis - have gathered in the cruiser's namesake city for the final large- scale reunion of the famed ship's dwindling number of survivors. Thirty- eight of the 3. July 1. 94. 5 sinking and five days in the Pacific's shark- infested waters are still alive, but they're now in their late 8. Harold Bray, an 8. Benicia, Calif., said he and the 1. Friday that any future gatherings will be smaller and less frequent because so many of the survivors are in poor health. Doomed: The USS Indianapolis was sunk by a Japanese torpedo in the South Pacific in 1.

Many crewman survived the blast only to be eaten by sharks'We decided to stay together until the last guy's standing, but the goal is to continue at a smaller scale,' said Bray, chairman of the USS Indianapolis Survivors Organization. Some of the guys are in wheelchairs now and travel is pretty tough for them.'Bray said the survivors will nonetheless keep telling the story of the ship's sinking, their survival and the role they played in helping bring the war to a close. The USS Indianapolis was halfway between Guam and the Philippines in shark- filled waters when a Japanese submarine sank it with torpedoes on July 3. Whoom. Up in the air I went,' Loel Dean Cox, who was just 1.

BBC about the first explosion. There was water, debris, fire, everything. It was a. tremendous explosion. Then, about the time I got to my knees, another. Whoom'The second torpedo nearly tore the ship in half. Cox said fires raged below deck as the ship began listing onto its side.

Rescue: Of the 1,1. Indianapolis when it sank, only 3. I turned and looked back. The ship was headed straight down. You. could see the men jumping from the stern, and you could see the four.

Twelve minutes. Can you imagine a ship 6. It just rolled. over and went under.'Just days earlier, the Indianapolis had visited the island of Tinian in a secret mission to deliver the uranium- 2. Hiroshima by the Enola Gay, which took off from the remote island. The Indianapolis' mission was so secret she sailed alone, unescorted by ships better equipped to detect and fight Japanese submarines. The ship's commander had even requested an escort but was denied by Navy officials. Additionally, the Navy failed to pass on information that Japanese submarines were still active in the area. Survivors: The crew of USS Ohio salute during a special burial ceremony at sea for Indianapolis survivor Eugene Morgan'I never saw a life raft.

I finally heard some moans and groans and. I. stayed,' Cox said. We figured that if we could just hold out for a couple of days they'd pick us up.'The Indianapolis sent several SOS signals before it became submerged, but the message wasn't taken seriously. Nor did Navy officials take much notice when the ship failed to arrive at its destination on time. An estimated 9. 00 of the ship's servicemen survived the vessel's nighttime sinking, but before rescuers arrived five days later, drowning, delirium, dehydration and shark attacks had claimed all but 3.

The Indianapolis' death toll - 8. U. S. Navy's worst single at- sea loss of life. But reports of the tragedy were buried by the news of the Japanese surrender, and interest in the ship's story was not revived until the 1. Jaws" featured a character who told of the sinking and the survivors' days of agony.

The sharks came from miles away to feast on the carnage from the wreck. They then started eating those who had survived the explosions.'We were sunk at midnight, I saw [a shark] the first. They were big. Some of them I swear were 1. Cox said. Justin Wray, left, a Navy recruiter in Indianapolis, speaks to USS Indianapolis survivor Clarence Hershberger'They were continually there, mostly feeding off the dead. Thank goodness, there were lots of dead people floating in the. We were losing three or four each night and day,' Cox said.

You were constantly in fear because you'd see 'em all the time. Every. few minutes you'd see their fins - a dozen to two dozen fins in the. They would come up and bump you. I was bumped a few times - you never know when they are going to attack you.'As the sharks continued to attack, clouds of blood in the water grew and attracted more to the area, leading to even more attacks.'In that clear water you could see the sharks circling. Then every now. and then, like lightning, one would come straight up and take a sailor.

One came up and took the sailor next to me. It was just somebody screaming, yelling or getting bit,' Cox said. Edgar Harrell, an 8. Clarksville, Tenn., who is one of only two ex- Marines among the remaining survivors, said the horrors he witnessed - including sharks devouring men around him - became too much for him to bear after he returned home. Reunion: 3. 8 of the Indianapolis' 3. In their 8. 0s and 9. While many survivors kept what they saw and heard to themselves, Harrell said the lingering trauma he'd suffered left him unable to focus on the college courses he enrolled in immediately after the war.'I learned early on that you had to get it out, you had to tell others what happened,' he said.

Once I did it was a relief.'Clarence Hershberger, an 8. De Leon Springs, Fla., who uses a wheelchair, hadn't planned on attending the reunion, which ends Sunday. He'd been feeling poorly but decided Monday to make the trip to Indianapolis, where a black granite memorial honors the ship and its crew. He said that when all of the survivors are gone he hopes the survivors' relatives and others keep reminding the public about the ship and its crew's sacrifice.'Somebody's got to keep the story alive,' Hershberger said. Among the roughly 2.

Hunter Scott, whose seventh- grade history project as a 1. Pensacola, Fla., helped lead to a reassessment of the court- martial of the ship's commanding officer, Rear Admiral Charles B. Mc. Vay III. Mc. Vay was court- martialed for not sailing a zigzag course to evade submarines, but his men believed he was made a scapegoat. In 2. 00. 0, 3. 2 years after Mc. Vay committed suicide, Congress passed an act clearing his name. Scott is now a 2. Navy helicopter pilot based in California and he said the men's incredible story of survival convinced him to enlist in the Navy.'There's 3.

I really wanted to see these guys and catch up. They're like grandfathers to me, it's like seeing family,' he said. They're heroes.".