Seventy-five years after two torpedoes fired from a Japanese submarine sunk cruiser USS Indianapolis (CA-35), the ship’s wreckage was found resting on the seafloor on Saturday – more than 18,000 feet below the Pacific Ocean’s surface. Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist, led a search team, assisted by historians from the Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) in Washington, D.C., to accomplish what past searches had failed to do – find Indianapolis, considered the last great naval tragedy of World War II.
“To be able to honor the brave men of the USS Indianapolis and their families through the discovery of a ship that played such a significant role in ending World War II is truly humbling,” said Allen in a statement provided to USNI News on Saturday.
“As Americans, we all owe a debt of gratitude to the crew for their courage, persistence and sacrifice in the face of horrendous circumstances. While our search for the rest of the wreckage will continue, I hope everyone connected to this historic ship will feel some measure of closure at this discovery so long in coming.”
Nothing I can say will ever beat one of the best movie speeches ever written. Words by John Millius and delivered by Robert Shaw.
In a way, welcome home.
So what was the speech and from what movie?
Robert Shaw should have won an academy award for that role. The fact he wasn’t even nominated was bullshit.
Stop being a dick and tell me what role? I’d like to watch it please.
I thought you were joking. ?
My apologies….I see it is linked now. My bad.
Spielberg was a nobody back then and Summer Movies were just popcorn not to be taken in consideration.