I saw a bit about the Indianapolis on the History Channel once. It was a bad scene all around. At the end, when they mentioned that some years later the Captain committed suicide, the narrator said, "The Indianapolis claimed its last victim".
I once worked with a fellow who was a survivor of the USS Juneau, a light cruiser sunk in the South Pacific. He was in the water some 12 hours before he was picked up.
A number of years ago, while "Dubby" and I were working together, the History Channel did a piece on the Juneau. On the show, they interviewed a Chief Petty Officer, and continually referred to him as the "sole survivor". He obviously wasn't, as I was working with another survivor. I wrote down the Chief's name and mentioned it to Dubby the next day. Dubby said, kinda scornfully, "Yeah, he was a cook. They lifelined him to another ship before the Juneau sank. He didn't even get his feet wet".
Dubby's comment on the sinking was, "Hell, I was a dumb 17 year old kid. I thought it was a big adventure, I didn't have sense enough to be scared".
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