In the summer of 1945, the USS Indianapolis set sail from San Francisco to the small Northern Mariana island of Tinian, carrying with it components for 'Little Boy' - a deadly nuclear weapon that ...

80 years ago today the USS Indianapolis was sunk in the Pacific. What followed was a nightmare from which only a third of the men emerged alive.

The last surviving Marine of the USS Indianapolis, the U.S. Navy ship that sank in July 1945, died this weekend. Edgar Harrell was 96 and lived at the Tennessee State Veterans Home in Clarksville ...

In a matter of just 12 minutes, the USS Indianapolis - described as being "two football fields in length" - sank beneath the waves, bringing down with her some 300 crewmen. Of the nearly 1,200 men ...