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Abandon Ship!: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, the Navy's Greatest Sea Disaster
Abandon Ship!: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, the Navy's Greatest Sea Disaster
Abandon Ship!: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, the Navy's Greatest Sea Disaster
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Abandon Ship!: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, the Navy's Greatest Sea Disaster

Written by Richard F. Newcomb

Narrated by Qarie Marshall

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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This bestselling revealing account of the U.S.S. Indianapolis includes new information on what went wrong that fateful day as well as a new introduction and afterword.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateNov 5, 2019
ISBN9781666557541
Abandon Ship!: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, the Navy's Greatest Sea Disaster
Author

Richard F. Newcomb

Richard F. Newcomb served as a wartime naval correspondent during World War II and received a Purple Heart. He is a retired news editor of the Associated Press and the author of six books. He lives in Palm Coast, Florida.

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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Good, but not great. Vincent and Vladic's "Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Area Disaster in U.S. Naval History" is a vastly superior book.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Great story of the USS Indianapolis and the tragic story of survival and determination.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Great true life story of survival during WW II. The story by the Capt. in "Jaws" is about it!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    The book is very detailed, very fair, and very good.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Solid account of the USS Indianapolis sinking, with significant attention given to the investigation, courts-martial trial, and disciplinary actions in response to this tragedy. Newcomb is very critical of the Navy for its handling of the matter and how it scapegoated certain officers.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Harrowing enough story of disaster and subsequent scapegoating of the innocent and cover-up by a rule-bound hierarchy, (USNavy). Most fascinating is the postscript where a schoolboy hears a bit of the story while watching Jaws ( sharks were among the hazards of floating in the South Pacific after the sinking). He got intrigued, then obsessed by the story and the injustice and eventually brought a tardy exoneration out of the Navy for Capt McVeigh, but too late: he'd put a bullet through his head at age 70. The hearings and court martial procedures and witness statement are hard to follow; hard to make a narrative line through that kind of labyrinth. What stands out in that section is the calling of the Japanese sub captain as witness, in the face of much protest and against all precedent. Why the authorities called him is not illuminated. His testimony also exonerated the Captain (zig zag maneuvers would have made no difference) but the court found Capt M guilty anyway. Fiat justitia!

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