THE heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis had raced across the Pacific with components of the first atomic bomb. But two torpedoes ...

The lore of the USS Indianapolis, a heavy cruiser assigned to Task Force 54, began when the gray lady saw extensive action before the invasion of Okinawa during March 1945 that resulted in the downing ...

For over 400 million years, sharks have been the monsters of the sea. With their torpedo-shaped bodies, coal-black eyes, and insatiable thirst for blood, each deliberate movement is a sinister dance ...

The sinking of the USS Indianapolis created one of the deadliest shark attacks ever recorded. Hundreds of sailors were left drifting in open water with no food, no rafts, and no rescue in sight. As ...

When shark attacks appear in the news, they typically involve a single victim, maybe a swimmer or surfer who’s been bitten, or in rare worst-case scenarios, killed. These incidents, while frightening, ...

Phil Craig expected to tell a story about a shark feeding frenzy. But what the fi lmmaker found was something quite different.“We started making a fi lm about sharks and ended up with a fi lm about ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Gil McCoy grew up in St. Louis and joined the Marines at 17 to fight in World War II. He was aboard the cruiser Indianapolis when ...

The USS Indianapolis was the last major American ship sunk by enemy forces during WW II, with the largest loss of life of at sea in our nation's history, as some 300 men went down with the ship and ...

The true story of the Americans aboard the USS Indianapolis before they were struck by Japanese torpedoes in July of 1945. After being hit, the men struggled to survive for five days without food or ...