The World War Two heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis has been found in the Pacific Ocean, 72 years after its sinking by a Japanese submarine. The warship was discovered 18,000 feet (5.5km) beneath the ...

At the time, 19-year-old seaman Loel Dean Cox was aboard the USS Indianapolis, a survivor of the tragic event who later ...

Ruby, now 93 and living in Indiana in the US, says seeing the wreck of the USS Indianapolis gave her a sense of closure. "I felt relieved when the search team said they know where it is.

The primary example is his work on the discovery of the wreck of the USS Indianapolis. “So I did about, uh, three months of pretty intensive research, uh, mostly at the national archives.

In the final weeks of World War II, just past midnight on July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis was returning from delivering the first operational atomic bomb to a naval base in the Pacific.