Was a tragedy. I did a lot of research into the sinking of the Indianapolis a number of years ago and IMO I think this is what happened.
1. The A bomb was so secret that the Indy was rushed through a turnaround to get her back to sea. Sailors aboard a ship at sea in those days couldn't communicate and tell people where they had been, what they had done or what they saw.
2. As someone else stated was shorted on fuel needed to run unescorted at full speed and zig zag. That was in part as stated to conserve fuel from the old command. Another part of it was they wanted that ship at sea now! So they were not given time to put on any more fuel.
3. Because of the super secret mission and the desire to have her at sea the harbor master who should have briefed the CPT as to known threats was rushed and failed to mention report of the Japanese sub in that area.
4. So secret was the mission that no one who would have reported the ship missing knew where she was or when she was supposed to be at the new command.
AS far as the court martial, a commander who put his ship in needless risk that resulted in the loss of said ship could (still can) be court martialed. The loss of the Indy and so many lives, that close to the end of the war was the reason for the court martial. What's sad is that very shortly after the sinking the whole world knew about the A bomb. They could have kept the ship in port until after the bomb was dropped because then the secret would have been out. So really the loss can be laid at the feet of Truman and the senior brass in DC. Had they left the Indy at Tinian until after the bomb was dropped things may have been different. IMO the court martial of CPT McVay was to divert attention away from the people who made the decisions that put the Indy at risk.
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