
Fatal Voyage
The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis
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Narrated by:
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Mark Bramhall
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By:
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Dan Kurzman
About this listen
Shortly after midnight on July 30, 1945, the navy cruiser USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in the Philippine Sea. The ship had just left the island of Tinian, delivering components of the atomic bomb destined for Hiroshima. As the torpedoes hit, the Indianapolis erupted into a fiery coffin, sinking in less than 15 minutes and leaving 900 crewmen fighting for life in shark-infested waters. They expected a swift, routine rescue, unaware that the navy high command didn't even realize that the Indianapolis was missing. Help would not arrive for another five days.
Drawn from definitive interviews with key figures, Fatal Voyage recounts the horrific events endured as the number of water-treading survivors dwindled to just 316. Each gruesome day brought more madness and slow death from explosion-related injuries, dehydration, and, most terrifying of all, shark attacks. But the pain did not end when the men finally returned home: The Indianapolis's commander, Captain Charles B. McVay III, was court-martialed for causing the clearly unavoidable disaster.
With a new afterword chronicling the 55-year campaign by Indianapolis survivors and their supporters to win public vindication for Captain McVay, this classic is restored, along with memories of the Indianapolis crew.
©2008 Dan Kurzman (P)2016 Random House AudioCritic reviews
There was the failure to recognise the US Indianapolis was missing and the shameful Court Martial of the Captain.
A great read and production that filled in the gaps of the movie. Interesting and easy to listen to.
The sharks were just a small part of this tragedy.
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Misses the biggest part of the story.
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