Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen led a civilian research team that discovered the wreckage of the USS Indianapolis, a warship sank by Japanese torpedoes in 1945. More from Military & Defense ...

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 ...

On July 26, 1945, the heavy cruiser U.S.S. Indianapolis landed on Tinian Island ... It was the worst disaster at sea in U.S. naval history. It was also perhaps the U.S. Navy’s most shameful ...

At the time, 19-year-old seaman Loel Dean Cox was aboard the USS Indianapolis ... and other causes. Today, the Indianapolis’ ...

The in-depth story of the USS Indianapolis Disaster. This week is about sharks: In the final days of WWII, the crew of the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) faced a harrowing choice: Burn on their sinking ...

The last time the crew of the USS Indianapolis saw her, she was sinking beneath the Philippine sea, torn apart by torpedoes. So how do her surviving crew and the families of those who died feel ...

The celebrated USS Indianapolis was nearly blown in half by two Japanese torpedoes and sunk on July 30, 1945, a tragedy that also stands as one of World War II's most harrowing survival stories.

On Day 8 of the Delphi murders trial — exactly two years after Richard Allen was arrested — Indiana State Police Lieutenant Jerry Holeman was called to the witness stand to recount both the ...

Riveting historical drama about the sinking of the USS Indianapolis by Japanese forces in WWII, and the travails endured by the few survivors both while adrift in the Philippine Sea and during the ...

The USS Indianapolis will sail again. Adm. Ricky Williamson announced Saturday night during a banquet for survivors of the warship lost during World War II that the Navy will give the city's name ...

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.

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. As the ...