The sharks ravaged those left stranded in the ocean after the bombing and rapid sinking of the USS Indianapolis on July 30, ...

He also has chronicled his story in his book, "Out of the Depths: An Unforgettable WWII Story of Survival, Courage, and the Sinking of the USS Indianapolis," which Harrell republished in May after ...

We are republishing it as part of our coverage of the anniversary of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis. Long before my work appeared in IndyStar, my grandfather was in this newspaper.

Don Howison was the last living officer of the Naval ship that sank in 1945. The oldest remaining survivor of the USS Indianapolis from WWII has died. The official Facebook page for the Naval ship ...

INDIANAPOLIS – More than a dozen men who survived the worst sea disaster in U.S. naval history — the World War II sinking of the USS Indianapolis — have gathered in the cruiser's namesake ...

The USS Indianapolis was 610 feet 3 inches (186 meters) long, according to Britannica. Roughly 900 men survived the ship sinking, of which only a little more than a third would be pulled from the ...

In a weird way, World War II survivor Edgar Harrell's visit to Mobile this weekend has allowed him to stand once again on the decks of the USS Indianapolis, the ship whose sinking in 1945 plunged ...

According to the official USS Indianapolis Facebook page, Edgar Harrell died Saturday. James Smith, who served the longest aboard the ship, died earlier this week. This means, of the 316 survivors, ...

After days adrift, the survivors were finally brought ashore at Guam When USS Indianapolis was hit by Japanese torpedoes in the final weeks of WWII, hundreds of crewmen jumped into the water to ...

Survivors of the Indianapolis disaster en route to a hospital following their rescue in August 1945 National Archives The USS Indianapolis had delivered the crucial components of the first ...

After Detroit native Stanley Wisniewski managed to escape from the sinking USS Indianapolis cruiser on July 30, 1945, his eyes were so clotted with oil that he ripped off all his clothes and ...