The Navy Has Finally Solved the Mystery of the Missing Man From the Sinking of a WWII Cruiser
Historians have resolved a 70-year-old mystery surrounding and the number of World War II troops who survived when the Navy cruiser was torpedoed by the Japanese on July 30, 1945. The sinking of the ship, which went down in under an hour, the U.S. Navy’s worst-ever disaster at sea. Out about 1,200 crewmen aboard, it was long believed that 880 sailors and Marines lost their lives during the attack itself or in the water following the ship’s sinking, due to extreme conditions including shark attacks, dehydration and saltwater poisoning. ...
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