The Sinking of USS Indianapolis - What Happened to the Men on Board?
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- What happened on board the USS Indianapolis? What happened to the survivors? Welcome to the SPECIAL episode of The Infographics Show; The Sinking of USS Indianapolis
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We got another special episode today! It's a 2 video day. Regular episode in a couple of hours!
Dang this just makes me say wow
The Infographics Show nice video
Wow your on a roll
When will u make a video on
Military comparison between BRICS vs EU
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Chilling story, what a terrifying experience these sailors must have gone through
Simple History yea
Awesome channel :)
Some were in the engine room and drowned
Do a video on navy ships I love all your videos
Hey Simple History!
-floating in the middle of the sea
-dimly lit by the moonlight
-constantly in the state of dehydration
-sharks bumping into you now and then
-seeing other people being dragged down into the deep sea not knowing when it'll be your turn
This is the stuff of nightmares
Literally.....
*bumping
Really. To me this sounds like paradise.
It wouldn't even be dimly lit, it would be practically pitch black
neklad
Right.. it’s like being in a lions den .. piece of cake ..
If I survived that I would probably move to the mountains
mountain bears and white tiger. will u go there?
@@endrioinfiniti he probably would go there
@@endrioinfiniti I have a far better chance against a bear and the majestic white tiger.
@@Joe-ri3nf But what if sharks learn to climb mountains?
Think I’ll just stay in my living room🤪
“The thing about a shark is he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn’t even seem to be livin’… ’til he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The ocean turns red, and despite all your poundin’ and your hollerin’ those sharks come in and… they rip you to pieces.”
Quint (Robert Shaw)
JAWS 1975
Shaw only had a few lines in the scene, originally. He told Spielberg that he could improve the scene, & the director gave him the go-ahead. Then he himself wrote his marvelous monologue. 🦈
I always remember that part on jaws. He told it so well.
Love Jaws one of the best films ever and Robert Shaw was so memorable in it
DAN LAROCA awesome thanks
🎼Show me the way da go home am tired ana wanna go da bed!
My grandfather was on the USS Indianapolis. In the times that he did talk about it he couldn’t finish his story because he would tear up. He was still in his TEENS when this happened. God Bless Him. I wish I spent more time with him.
Gus10271 thats terrifying bro. Literally 2 of my biggest fears sharks and open water? Did he say wha type of sharks they were? Great whites? How did he survive?I'm curious.
What is his name
@@Getsumsimm Oceanic whitetips I believe.
@@Getsumsimm tiger sharks infests that part of the ocean..
@@Getsumsimm
Most likely in that area they would be Blues, Makos, White tips and Tigers......
Me and sharks have a great relationship. If I stay out of the ocean, they stay off my lawn
Lmao
Omg stop it you're killing me xD
Sharks are harmless. Millions of people go in the ocean every day. Sharks leave them alone. Even in this story the shark attacks were grossly exagerated. Only reason there were any atttacks at all was because there was blood in the water.
@@ylekiote99999 sharks are harmless? Yeah right-o. Lol. Pretty sure the sinking of the ship and having 900 men floating around at the surface drew the sharks in. Nice easy meal.
The sharks and I
I learned about the USS Indianapolis from my uncle quint back in 1975.
princewes ok
My uncle Brody told me how your uncle died. Sorry for your loss
ha ha
John Bhoy something tells me you don’t get the reference
I noticed they didn't cover the part about them delivering the Bomb and the mission being Top Secret. That's why it took so long to rescue the survivors.
I remember hearing about this disaster when I was a teenager in the 1950's. The thought of the long ordeal suffered by these men horrified me then and listening to the video clip now brought it all back. I just can't imagine the terror, despair and the loss of hope for so many of them. Those that survived the 5 long , awful days must, in my admiration, be absolute hero's. I am sure that if I'd been placed in that situation, I would not have been one of them. That sort of courage is a gift bestowed on so few of us.
What would you do? There is no option but to try and survive, I dont belive many of them commited suicide
3 things i will never do
1) work in sea
2) go in the sea
3) work in the military in the sea
Alias of an alias yea well the last way I would wanna die is drowning
@@bigheadman8590 Fair point, there are far quicker deaths. The sea is beautiful though man.
Sand sharks yo
Most of those sailors, dont get a choice
Like titanic people had drowned and also because of the coldness there was.
Drowning in mid of an ocean is horrific experience to go through since drown is slow death and lets u view the worst while dying
The PTSD the survivors have is probably insane
Ryan Ramirez Yeah, I feel so bad for them, and it was all because of humans that made their boat sink. ;(
@@laurelmatson1766 I dont they deserved it half a million died as a result of the bomb they helped make
Amari Herman and a million more people would have died if that bomb wasn’t made
My grandpa was a survivor and for years would occasionally have issues taking showers
One of the survivors actually went shark hunting as revenge
sharks bumping into the live sailor is absolutely terrifying
Yell
10-4 good buddy remember keep on trucking and keep the rubber side truck driver
If s shark bumped me like that...I would be poking his eyeballs out with my k-bar knife if I had one...if not I would have pooped my pants and screamed really loud!!!
"You know, a thing about a shark, he's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes, like a doll's eyes."
Sometimes the shark would go away....... Sometimes it wouldn't go away
We delivered the bomb
when hes coming at you he doesnt seem to be livin.....until he bites ya
And those black eyes...roll over white
And then......aaah, and then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin', the ocean turns red, and in spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin', they all come in and they.....rip ya to pieces.
You know, by the end of that first dawn......lost a hundred men. I don't know how many sharks -- maybe a thousand. I don't know how many men, they averaged six an hour.
Thursday mornin', Chief, I bumped into an old friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player, bosun's mate. Thought he was asleep, I reached over to wake him up, and he bobbed up and down in the water, it was like a kind of top.....upended. Well..... he'd been bitten in half below the waist.
Noon, the fifth day a Lockheed Ventura saw us, he swung in low and he saw us. A young pilot too, a lot younger than Mr Hooper anyway he swung in low and three hours later a big fat PBY come down and starts to pick us up. You know, that was the time I was most frightened, waiting for my turn. I'll never put on a life jacket again. So, 1100 men went into the water, 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the Bomb...
Puberty hit you hard bro.
UP
I hope you're kidding
Divine Hazard nice one LOL
😂😂😂
LMAO
The Indianapolis did get off distress signals after the attack. They were received by three US stations. One commander was drunk, another had given orders not to be disturbed while the last thought it was a trap. Added to this a Lieutenant in Leyte incorrectly logged the ship as having safely arrived purely based on the fact it should have. This collective incompetence meant the survivors had to endure the amount of time they did in the water. It was pure luck they were spotted by the patrol aircraft.
Funky Monkey1886 or it was planned all along. Hmm....
I was thinking the same. They did get a distress signal out, but some lazy morons weren’t doing their jobs, and hundreds of people died as a result.
Gotta think about it, a ship going full speed ahead and being a really fast cruiser it was hard to imagine anything to hit the cruiser yet it did... the thing is the entire navy was bull on this. No destroyer escorts, not fully repaired, not given permission to zig sag, and all the blame was on the crew, how f*{%ing sweat of em aye?
That makes this story much worse.
Funky Monkey1886 well dude thats intresting and it said like it was from guam going to the philippines and besides the philippines also were victims by the japanese that time
THANK YOU CZcams RECOMMEND!!!! My great grandpa was on the ship, and was actually one of the 300 men who made it back to land safely. So this video was really nice to see.
Please get your grandfather's account and share it on CZcams.
Is he still alive?
@@West-rk7dz Sadly not, he took his own life a few years after the war.
@John Bhoy excuse me?
@John Bhoy you're* 😶
you forgot about how the captain died
he killed himself cos he felt guilty for the dying of those men
Wrecking Magnum that’s just sad
Yoru very 😞
he was forced into that guilt by the families
Bc they tried to blame him for it all because they said he didn’t follow the precautions for avoiding submarines
died with a toy sailor in his hand
There is absolutely no possible way I would survive that
Never say that. Keep fighting even if it looks desperate. You never know If your going to win or not ;)
hop pn the back of a big shark what could it do ? go down deep i supose or rub into rocks they aint dumb , they can fan big gates with their tails and bend the pin that holds the gate closed lol
You never know.
That's the horrific part.
That’s humanity tho, we’re here because our ancestors decided to live and persevere
not with that attitude you wouldnt.
being in the water with sharks at night. nope. nope. noooooooope. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPE.
@WatchAficionado yes but in this case with that many sharks around, the chances to get attacked increase alot.
All the ghosts of Hiroshima have been avenged, I guess.
WatchAficionado yeah. What are your chances tho if you get sunk by the enemy and float like bait for days in the middle of the ocean...
What are your chances if you like to surf every other day?
See what im saying...
If you dont swim in the ocean, like probably most of humanity, you have zero danger of dying from a shark attack.
If you do, however...
Being with sharks during anytime is a nope nope
@@mikshin9825 the death of 2000 enlisted soldiers dosnt compare to the death of 200,000 civilians
When your enemies hits your ship with two mini-nukes so you drop two real nukes on their home.
Actually this incident happened after that ship delivered nukes to philippines to nuke japan
Peter A. Totally justified, you should learn about their horrible treatment of people in countries they invaded.
@Peter A. it was either having millions of people die on both sides or have 200k innocent people die 🤷♂️, they brought it upon theirselves
@Peter A. AND after we bombed one city they STILL DIDN'T surrender, think about it it was the quickest way to end ww2 if we didn't bomb them the war would drag on for many more horrible years and millions would die on both sides, think about it
@Peter A. true. The only reason why the U.S. dropped those bombs was to prevent the spread of communism throughout asia. They should've stopped the bombing after hiroshima. Nagasaki was the most Unessecary city to bomb on but it did help convince the leaders in japan to surrender
"Would you have survived " ? I dont know man its basically up to chance, those men didn't need skill or anything it was just who the sharks did or didn't choose.
They took the juiciest first
No skill involved. Just faith. No athiests survived and you cant blame them. They knew there was no rescue no one knew they where out there. Why hold on when there is no hope and only more suffering ahead? The ones that survived believed that if they gave up they would be committing suicide and thus barred from heaven. Thats the only reason they survived.
Skill of not letting the situation take you over mentally. That would at least increase your chances, but the rest is up to the sharks
They were mentally strong, faith at its finest
Mental Fortitude is most definitely a skill.
Did you not hear about all the sailors who chose to give up? The narrator is basically asking if you could have the iron will these men had to persevere instead of giving up and taking the easy option out(which is suicide by taking your life jacket off or going insane).
"More sharks heard about this feast of humans"
Yes, sharks are such gossips.
Well do you speak shark. Lol i get what your saying though. It should read as more sharks smelled this feast of humans. Blood in the water you know.
Hahahahaha
it seemed odd to me as well that the narrator used that choice of wording. He should have said "the scent of human blood in the water ignited the senses of distant sharks came to add to the carnage"
@@lgd1974 1% of americans caught that... You're not american are you?
Only the females
This is one of the saddest stories I’ve ever heard Rest In Peace to the people who died in the USS Indianapolis
I live in Pennsylvania so I’m kinda far from you
I live in Portland and never heard of either of these places.
Chimpalicious Jones III How on Earth have you never heard of Indianapolis or Pennsylvania????? Indianapolis is the 14th largest city in the US and the capitol of Indiana. And Pennsylvania is A STATE WITH TWO MAJOR CITIES
Ben Hobson Music
Pennsylvania sounds like a bad syfy movie where a pencil gets turned into a vampire and for some reason it starts killing people.
Chimpalicious Jones III Do you live in the US??????? Cos if you are I am highly concerned. It’s an entire state.............
I'm guessing these men will not be too pleased if their grandkids will start playing "Baby Shark"
DeadTroperSociety I guess the grandpa shark doo doo doo ate the men
Hahahahaha
How can you guys make jokes about this?
@@DykmanJ what joke? That is an observation. If you know your dad spent days in the water with sharks, would you really let your kids play 'Baby Shark' in front of their grandpa?
That was too dark.. but gotta admitted it's funny af.. lol
The scene from jaws really gets across just how terrifying this disaster was.
"So, eleven hundred men went in the water; 316 men come out and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb." - Quint
Its wrong hundreds would die a day to sharks i'm pretty sure only like 10 died every day to sharks also like 300 died at the start some died to dehydration and starvation and some killed themselves
Best scene in movie history
@@dylanmcadam8509 yeh we watched the video dude. (Plus this is a quote from jaws)
Whenever you think you're having a bad day just think about what these sailors went through.
Yep
Ok, still having a bad day. But, it could be worse.
John Bhoy I broke my collar bone today yay
Thought I'd share, you?
Not everyone’s life is the same
Why am I fascinated by deaths from disasters. I always put myself there and it gives me chills like I'm there .
What a nasty way to die .
Paul Carr same
They call that skitzophrenia, there is hope brother.
Imagine if heaven is real all it will be is people either bragging or seeking sympathy for the way they die
This comment thread is super interesting
It's not just nasty. It's a horrible and terrifying fate.
My great grandfather, Harold Shearer, was one of the survivors aboard. Absolutely terrifying to hear what he would have went through. After his service he was awarded the purple heart.
Did he ever see Quint’s speech in JAWS?
They did in fact send a distress signal that was intercepted by 3 Naval stations in The Philippines, but Declassified records later showed that three stations received the signals but none acted upon the call. One commander was drunk, another had ordered his men not to disturb him and a third thought it was a Japanese trap.
filipino here
It was only when they were overdue a week did a rescue finally happen.
True
I knew one of the survivors
@Chiefline the captain was the one who got prosecuted because according to navy he did not zigzag
"They got lifeless, black eyes... like a dolls eyes" - you know who
Nick Self Our lord and savior Quint?
michael myers?
Master of Disguise
COME ON GUYS IT QUINT NOT MASTER OF DISGUSE OR MYERS. IT'S QUINT
Raptor Cawk, you made me laugh so hard I pee'd my pants LMFAO!
I would have died of a heart attack after seeing a bajillion sharks swimming under me.
The terrifying aspect is that in many cases you probably _couldn't_ see them. A combination of unclear water and the dark of the night made it so a lot of them probably had no idea how many sharks there were and whenever they came for them, because they couldn't see them. And during moments when you could see the sharks many would have been so unfocused due to dehydration and starvation that you might not even have noticed them. You just knew they were there, but not where exactly or how many.
At any point a shark could rush up from the darkness of the depths, sink 100s of razor sharp teeth into you and drag you down to never resurface again. Just the anticipation that this could happen at all times without knowing before it was too late... And with that going on continuously for 4 whole days, with only the assumption that the sharks attacked less during daytime. Truly a hellish experience.
@@Devilsnightforlife put the nail in the coffin with this one, truly terrifying
youd be surprised when staring death down how much you want to live
When we are at the horror of war, we beg for peace. When we are at peace, we forget the horror of war - me ( subscribe)
@@Devilsnightforlife u r true
My great grandfather was on this ship when it sank, he survived with minor injuries, no shark bites, just severe sun burns, he slept with his arm between the box spring and the mattress until the day he died. Since then no one in my family joined the navy, until me. Fair winds and following seas to my fallen shipmates, the ship of state has not been forgotten.
what a lie and pathetic story .
You my friend are Dumb !
Wow. You're brave.
@@WinnerWinnerChicken why do you assume I'm lying? I'm not.
@@carna-9501 explain why he slept like tht....
@@Forever.Remain.Nameless he didn't want to float away, when he was adrift at sea he slept holding on to anything he could, so he wouldn't drown, or get separated from the others in his crew
May the souls of the fallen rest peacefully.
“Sometimes, that shark, he’d go away....Sometimes he wouldn’t”
Jaws
That's messed up
“Some suffered from PTSD when they got home”
Well I’d be dammed
Yelp
10-4 good buddy remember keep on trucking and keep the rubber side truck driver
I would be the type of guy to get run over by the plane landing.
You, ItzNight, are a TRUE Pessimist. (Some folks say this is realism, though; and a lot of shipwrecked sailors died in the breakers during the age of sail, just a few feet from salvation -- too weak to save themselves.
LOL
ItzNight Same!!! 😂
LMFAO
Oh no they killed Kenny!
Anyway, we delivered the bomb.
jbot91 🤣
they* you do nothing for the country. get it right
Mike Philips it was a jaws reference
and on the bomb it says: a present for the souls of the Indianapolis crew.
Jaws 1975.
A friends father, survived being on the California in Pearl Harbor. He then was one of 319 survivors in 1945 from the Indianapolis. He went on to retire from the Border Patrol. I loved to listen to his stories.
The sinking of the USS Indianapolis
Shows a picture of the USS Arizona
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Briefly talks about sinking of MV Dona Paz
Shows a picture of Costa Concordia
talks about I58
shows drawing of I19
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@@imapigeon7984 *_I'm THE HOLY ROMAN REPUBLIC_*
if I survived the Indianapolis, I would move to a sleepy New England cove and spend the rest of my days hunting sharks with the town's local sheriff and a plucky bi-speckled scientist.
russell28533 good jaws reference
Sounds like it could potentially be one helluva screenplay.
That sounds like it would be a really cool shark movie!
My sidekick would be a quiet Native American man, my only friend however would be bourbon.
😊👍
This video neglects to point out that the US military also bears part of the blame for the disaster of the Indianapolis. The Indianapolis wasn't listed overdue for it's arrival for almost a week. A quick emergency rescue response from the military might have saved the lives of hundreds of US service men.
And also it didn’t receive a convoy
@Jonny B Indianapolis is not a battleship it's a cruiser more specifically CA heavy cruiser
thank you
“Then you hear that terrible high pitch screamin. Then the ocean turns red.”
"despite all the poundin' and the hollerin' they all come in and...rip you to pieces."
You know by the end of that first dawn, we lost a 100 men, I dunno how many sharks maybe a thousand, I know how many men they averaged 6 an hour
But how can you tell the ocean is red in the darkness of night!?
How do you know it wasn’t mermaids screeching
Best movie ever
Here's to swimming with bow-legged women 🍺
One of the survivors came to my school today to give a speech about his experience
That's cap
Hmmmm
Miked Up I took 2 photos with the man, he was very nice.
Jody Doherty pretty sure the dude would be 100 or over lowkey I think this man capping ngl. The dude would have to be born in atleast 1920s to even be in the war
@@Itzkronik yeah but some people lied about their age. If we say their 18 and joined in 1942. They would be 96 right now. It is a possibility.
Dying of dehydration in the middle ocean,how Ironic.
The irony is that they are dying of thirst and there is an ocean full of water which they can't drink because it's salty.
varun purushotham I Know but the irony
Q_Scope_Long Horn another irony is that most people in desserts die due to floods than they die from thirst
Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink
U cant fucking drink salt water u donut u will die faster cuz its SALT WATER
look, i dont meanto sound rude but , when salt water gets in your system, your system need more regular clean water to get rid of the salt that is already on your system. so that is what you dehydrated
the narrator hit puberty
CJ Russell omfg😂😂😂😂
Lol
It's john cena
CJ Russell puberty hit the narrator like a torpedo.
CJ Russell didn't just hit it, he beat the shot out of it
"Anyway, we delivered the bomb..." - Quint
"i'll never put on a life jacket again.."
Very good video explaining this terrifying event, can't imagine being in the water surrounded by sharks waiting to be bitten...
F86 Sabre For 5 nights and 4 days! They couldn’t last much longer.
You found a great way to use another voice! This one was a bit eerie and fit the part well. Awesome job!
*another
Guerrilla Mobile Games exactly
That's all u cared about though, really? 😐
This is truly one of the most horrendous moments in history. When I was younger my friends grandfather was a survivor. 5 other neighborhood friends he saw them picked off one by one you can hear the crunches and felt them too
My great uncle was one of the survivors. He died shortly before I was born, but I’ve heard stories about him and I’ve found pictures taken of him shortly after he was rescued. It gives me chills to think about what he went through.
War sucks
Unless you are a banker.
Sharks sucks
@@1USACitizen192 exactly
D3LTA war still sucks even if humans do too
That is so simple that I don't get why so many people don't get it
Show me the way to go home, I’m tired and I wanna go to bed, I had a little drink about an hour ago and it’s gone straight to my head!
Starts banging on table just after jaws had just put his kids to bed.
Jack Khill Wherever I may roam, by land or sea or foam, you will always hear me singing this song. *SNAP! SNAP! SNAP! SNAP!* Show me the way to go home... *DOO-DOO-DOO-DOO!* I'm tired and I wanna go to bed. *DOO-DOO-DOO-DOO!* I had a little drink about an hour ago... *Unintelligible!*
Jack Khill Wherever I may roam, by land or sea or foam, you will always hear me singing this song. *SNAP! SNAP! SNAP! SNAP!* Show me the way to go home... *DOO-DOO-DOO-DOO!* I'm tired and I wanna go to bed. *DOO-DOO-DOO-DOO!* I had a little drink about an hour ago... *Unintelligible!*
Show us your scars.
Marry M Muffet...She broke my heart 😂😂🤣🤣
WOW! Great video! I was lucky enough to know a survivor of this tragedy. Mr. Palmiter, we called him 'Ping'. I got to know him in my church days in the 90's. He was retired and helped me and a few other fellas keep the grounds mowed. He was a great guy and you'd have never guessed he could have experienced such a horrific ordeal. He'd talk about it if you asked him. Amazing what the human spirit can overcome. R.I.P. Bro. Ping.
This story is like 100% why I’m afraid of the ocean.
I swear if the documentaries that we are forced to watch in class had his voice, I'd actually pay attention.
Strawberries and Stuff thats actually true
Agreed
FELLOW ARMYYY
It's like a Stephen King story only this is real life
Dude you’re so right. Steven Kind would have written something like this. He should write about this as a memoir to these sailors.
Or something like the crucible. The Crucible is about the Red Scare, but it’s written in the context of the Salem Witch Trials. Same idea, different way it’s written.
Imagine if Peter Benchley wrote a novel about this?
@@68404 Yet he actually does
You do realise this event has already been used in a movie? Jaws.
My father's great uncle served on the Indianapolis and survived this. Not one soul in the family knew until he passed away from old age and they found his medals/service records hidden in his closet. Never spoke of it, even to his children.
Very detailed talk. Thank you for this. I started to read and watch everything I could find about the sinking since I saw “Jaws” as a young boy, and this also adds to my search for the truth.
Watching the old captain talk about this in Jaws is still my favourite part of that movie. It still gets my attention all these years later.
Same
It is so well done that you can feel the tension in the air and the fear. A horrible experience for those sailors.
"Oh, so 1100 men went in the water, 316 men came out and the sharks June 29 1945.... Anyway, we delivered the bomb"
-Quint JAWS
AngWaz 111 Quint’s figures were wrong. July 30th 1945, 1196 men went in the water and 317 survivors.
AngWaz 111 I believe 317 survived.
@@MetalWarrior-gm6mr he didn't count himself
I have the image in my head of this conversation:
“Hey, who do think is gonna die next.”
“Him”
“Nah,I don’t think so”
*4 hours later*
“CALLED IT! PAY UP!”
Easily one of the greatest story-telling voices I have heard in a long time
Why is this not a movie ?
vincent atkinson Mission of the Shark was made in 89. It had John Boy out of The Waltons in it.
Jaws 2 was supposed to cover this event initially.
Randall P McMurphy oh I hadn’t heard of it. Thanks I’ll look into it
USS Indianapolis Men of Courage
vincent atkinson there is a Movie called Pearl Harbor that talks about what happened to the ships & actually there is a line in Jaws the first one not Jaws 2, but it only talks about that ship not the ships that were sunk with it.
Randall P McMurphy it was Jaws the first actually
My grandfather was a medic/surgeon in WWII in the Pacific Theater. His ship was the 3rd or 4th to come upon the rescue. He said he'd never seen such carnage and death during the war. Sharks and nature were far crueler than the enemy he said.
Jaws captured the horrors of these stories in Robert Shaw’s most famous speech
I totally would’ve survived. You wouldn’t catch me anywhere near being on a boat in the ocean so yeah I’d be fine
Draft notice has entered the chat
Wilder Windeler probably would’ve got drafted
Also, the captain was courtmartialed, and committed suicide by the time he got back home. Very sad, but it goes to show where the saying “a captain always goes down with his ship” comes from.
I wouldn't have been able to live with myself either. It would just haunt me knowing that over 1,000 young men died because of me but I still managed to get home...
No the men died because of the dumbass general who didn’t give them a destroyer escort WHEN THEY ASKED FOR ONE
My grandfather knew a survivor from the USS Indianapolis. He says that the Captain was courtmartialed due to not having the ship do zig-zags, which was a sailing technique to make it difficult for submarines to hit the ships with torpedoes. As well as this, the Captain was posthumously acquitted of his courtmartial, and was posthumously reinstated as a Captain in the US Navy. Something else superbly interesting is that this is one of the only times in US History where a court has called an enemy to testify against a service member, due to the captain of said submarine being called in to testify at his hearing. One last tidbit, the 317 prefix for Indiana/Indianapolis numbers actually stands for the 317 survivors of the USS Indianapolis. *The more you know*
E:
Yeah, the captain left the dock so early that he forgot to load up on fuel, and as a result he didn’t have enough to get back to the U.S. using the zig zag pattern. However, nice job on the other stuff, I don’t believe I knew that. The more you know.
meliosexe Animations That and no won reported that the same sub just hit 2 ships less than like 159 miles away. Before they got there.
My dad was just telling me the other day how he met a survivor from this very sinking, he said one gulp of salt water in their mouth made them go crazy and swim down and never come back. And he also talked about how he watched all of his friends get picked off by sharks.
Infographics.... you guys gotta make more videos in this style. It's truly captivating.
What would I have done? Who's to say.. I'd probably go mad. This is one of the worst situations a human could ever find themself in. 74 years later and it's still one of the most terrifying stories to date..
Treading water waiting for a shark to eat you has got to be one of the worst fears. The anxiety and suspense would probably kill me first. Not being able to see what's underneath you and knowing pretty much every injured fish just flops around at the surface of the water while your just treading water! God that would be scary💩
Tyson Thomas 100% agreed
Picking up that pistol..
This is my worst nightmare
@@oobibab9572 same, same...
I would drown myself. I couldn't think of a more terrifying situation.
I swear I’d rather float into space or go 1 on 1 with a Grizzly then go anywhere near the middle of the ocean.
You would rather certain death over the unlikely death 👍
That doesn't makes it any easier
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George Mate i think it would be pretty cool but painful to die in space, you get to die seeing the universe through your own eyes which is a once and only life time experience
Ummmmm floating in space is way worse you have a chance in the ocean you don’t have a chance in space my dude
I was blessed to minister at a survivor's reunion, many of the men impressed with my knowledge of their ordeal, but true to my Native heritage, I embraced every opportunity to hear those men tell me their personal experiences. No book, documentary or movie can completely prepare you, nor can their duplicate or replace hearing an elder recounting their living history. I was befriended by a survivor and, with his blessing, used his tale in a sermon on perseverance that leaves not a single dry eye anywhere I preach it. I also got to sit down with a survivor and his son shortly after the ship's resting place was found and loved that he met the news with gallows humor because anything less would have reduced him to tears. I have such a love for these men... they are heroes to me and always will be... and I pray God's many blessings on the couple of survivors still we us, the families of the Indy's final crew and all who work to keep their memories, their legacy alive... and mission to 100% exonerate their Captain, Charles McVey III, from the stain the Navy's kangaroo court to hide their own failures and dereliction of duty placed on his record.
this have to be one of the most well made episode of this channel
Ironic the japeneese brought down this ship but not before it was able to deliver the last components of the nuclear bombs .
Gottem
it's almost like the universe wanted blood for blood
@@apples8872 it's almost like war...war never changes
Well if they were close enough to sink it and the torpedo hit the nuclear bombs there's no doubt that the nuclear bombs would explode then and there, which would destroy the Japanese ship aswell as the american ship.
Next up: *W H Y D O M E N H A V E N I P P L E S ?*
czcams.com/video/arLFPb_dMpI/video.html This was posted today ironically
That's the Infographics show for ya
I know right
Men have nipples because the gender genes aren’t fully in effect, so in other words, you’re a girl and a boy for a while before your genes are fully in effect
Edgy Stuff real next video: can we cover women’s nipples with men’s
Sick editing man
Amazing video
The first time I read the book “In Harm’s Way” I was in the Marines, onboard a Navy plane on my way out to Hawaii. I simply could not put it down. I looked out the window to the Pacific below and thought of those very moments those sailors and Marines went through. It’s very horrifying to imagine and a very sad
I love these kind of videos , keep it up!
Being a navy veteran , there are many horrifying ways to have your life ended aboard ship... being stranded in the ocean and being eaten alive was the most horrific for me . Rest in peace my brother's of the sea .
Very well presented video of this terrible tragedy
I first heard about this from Jaws
@Here's Johnny Quint! "Boom boom boom, show me the way to go home, I'm tired and I want go to bed..."
I did to, I was 12 years old sitting terrified in the front row
Ya his story was great!
@Aiden Lane holy shit that's crazy
So true! For JAWS 2 they were going to do the USS Indianapolis story but the directors were told to continue it on from the first. Shame really...
I wasn't a survivor of the USS Indianapolis, but Mary Ellen Moffat broke my heart.
I got that beat
What about Mary Lee? She lived to the age of 103. For 15 years she kept her virginity, not a bad record, for this vicinity...
“Japanese submarines slammed two torpedoes into our side chief”
America slammed two a bombs into our country chief.
Man, I forgot this was the infographics show for a while because I’m used to a super bright and happy narrator 😂
This guy scares me 😱 because of how he talks
diego duran it’s Seth Rogen trying to be serious
Ye
Well, that was a nice watch right before bed...
Water bed?
Me too buddy
This is the best infograpichics show video
My neighbor, 3 doors over is the son of one of those 317 survivors, whom passed away just a few years ago in his 90's. I am honored to know the family and grateful for their sacrifices.
I'd rather die of gunshot than get eaten slowly by hungry sharks. Damn that shit is the worse death any person could experience.
bastardjustice IDK, I mean if you get eaten by a shark that's pretty swift compared to the deaths in Dona Paz where you get injured, get oil all over your body and slowly watch your skin burn away before killing you
@@belfast4893 the Doña Paz incident was worse too. But getting eaten by sharks is another story. You get bit and they rip off a chunk of flesh from you, then you bleed slowly and another one comes for another piece of your body while you are in constant pain.
bastardjustice while your hungry dehydrated and delusional, and while your friends get plucked off one by one
A gunshot doesn't promise you a quick painless death and I doubt you'd shoot yourself a second time ... If your unfortunate enough to live you'd be the first target of the sharks and you'd die of drowning in cold salt water as the shark pulled you down ... In this situation a gunshot isn't necessarily what you want
@itheuser First I know right. This story itself debunks the theory that sharks won't attack if you're in a group. Got a love these people coming up with these stupid theories.
Hearing this full story sent chills threw my body..... Sailors on ships, airmen on bombing runs, soldiers & Marines on ground all showed true grit during WWll.
"Black eyes like a dolls eyes..."
John Nazar Jaws
So dolls are scarier than the sharks!?!?
"Big fat pby came down, that was the time i was most frightened, waiting for my turn"
“I’ll never put on a life jacket again” - Quint 1975
Reminds me of Michael Myers.
This was part of the inspiration for JAWS. For me Quint is the central character, the movie is his battle with the demons left from surviving. I believe it was his fate to die by JAWS. He joined his brothers.
This is most overlooked event in WWII. Thank you for making this I hope more people learn about the Indy. There is a JAWS channel here and Twitter we are wanting to do something to honor the men that gave their life and the ones that survived. It’s The Daily JAWS if you’re a fan.
In harms way by Mike Stanton is a great book. It truly makes you think are you strong enough what would you do. I have much respect for all sailors that were lost.
*AMAZING VIDEO ONCE AGAIN!!*
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I met 2 of these survivors yesterday evening at a veterans dinner. They told there stories and I can't believe they lived through that.
Such a unique episode. Wow