Takoda Diver’s Reviews > In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors > Status Update

Talks about the timeline that happened after, and the events that led to McVay killing himself. He lost a lot in life, like his first wife, his grandson, and the crew that he knew. The people from the survival were traumatized. They had a reunion doctor died before he could hear the news that the nazy revisted McVay's case and reversed their decision, but they were too late . This story led to a sad ending for many.

They then brought a Navy sub leader, and he told them that zigzagging has basically no effect if a sub hits a ship. They still charge him, and he has a permanent record of it on his record. It talks about what most people did after the event. 1196 people on the ship.900 people got off the ship, but only 317 survived. About 200 deaths by sharks. This makes you believe the Jaws movie.

They started to bring them onto the ship and treat them, and give them showers. When it was all over, the book went to the court date. It talks about the reasons whyMcVayy was unreasonably court-martialled and how key evidence was top secret, so know one knew about it . The sub leader responsible for the sub that sank the Indy said even if the Indy was zigzaging, it would not have worked, it would have still sunk

I enjoy how the people at the places where Indy was supposed to go and had already gone started to notice that it never showed up at port. They found a plane and radioed in that they dropped some supplies. The sharks kept eating the survivors over time. Other planes from different places started to show up at the location and helped. When they found out the Indy was probably sunk they sent ships to help the survivors

I like how descriptive this story can be.It talks about how the people in the doctors group start to attack the other people in the group with anything they had, likeknivess because i think it said that the salt water messed with them and made them worse combined with other factors it made them see hulutionnations and not have the right thinking at that point in time and some seperated from that group not to get hurt

They were unexpectedly attacked, and some were eaten while blindfolded. In the third group, the captain of the Indy found a boat and rallied a decent number of people. However, those who received the distress signal didn’t report it and didn’t question their arrival at the destination due to a rule against reporting combat ships.

The sharks started to pick them off one by one, taking them under the water, and eating them. The life jackets would come back up. One was eaten on the surface of the water the people had to watch him be eaten . They left and went to the second group. The second group had the doctor and boats, and everyone was covered in oil for sunscreens. They blind folded them self so they aren't affected by the sun.

They continue to sail to the destination, nothing happens, and they deliver the parts for the Bomb . They stay a few more days on the island and leave on the way to the next place. They get torpedoed to the starboard side and the hull. The torpedoes were like kamikaze torpedoes because people went inside to drive them. The ship started to sink. Oil was leaking. Fire lots of fire

I also like how it goes into the tiniest of details, so it has more imagery. It talked about how a person accidentally let it slip to his family what day he was supposed to leave. He wasn't supposed to do that, especially on this mission, because, unknown to anyone, the crate they were shipping had the internal parts of the big boy. One guy was guarding it the entire time, I think.

The 500 lb armor-piercing round bomb ripped through the deck and kept going. When it exploded, it damaged the ship. In one of the engine rooms, the people in their drowned in oil and gasoline. People started to close the air-tight doors to stop any fire. They succeeded, and the people on deck pushed the plane into the ocean. That was my favorite one, but the ship has a lot of history.