By: Pete Nelson
This is on the back cover: Just after midnight on July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. The ship sank in fourteen minutes. More than a thousand men were thrown into shark-infested waters. Those who survived the fiery sinking - some injured, many without life jackets- struggled to stay afloat as they waited for rescue. But the United States Navy did not even know they were missing.
The navy needed a scapegoat for this disaster. So it court-martialed the captain for "hazarding" his ship. The survivors of the Indianapolis knew that their captain was not to blame. For fifty years they worked to clear his name, even after his untimely death. But the navy would not budge - until an eleven-year-old boy named Hunter Scott entered the picture. His history fair project on the Indianapolis soon became a crusade to restore the captain's god name and the honor of the men who served under him.
201 pages Age 10 and up
ISBN 9780385730914
Retail Price: $8.95
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