Sunday, December 8, 2013

An Ultra-Secret Sinking_Wordsift

The USS Indianapolis should have finished the Second World War in triumph. Instead, she was torpedoed and 900 men from her crew were left abandoned in the open ocean. From True Sea Stories.True Sea Stories
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Hunter Scott
Hunter's Site, he spent nearly seven years researching the sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the subsequent court-martial of Captain Charles B. McVay III
Paired Reading: Left for Dead
  1. What startled Gwinn when he was in the fighter plane? ~ Bert
  2. By the afternoon, how many spotter planes flew overhead? ~ Bert
  3. Why didn't they tell the captain what was happening? ~ Jacob
  4. How did the black out happen? ~ Jacob
  5. Why didn't the crew take shifts for a watch? ~Andrew
  6. Where was the captain? ~ Andrew




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