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https://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-u ... i/ca35.htm

https://www.wishtv.com/dpp/news/indiana/ ... -speak-out

https://www.steelnavy.com/Indyphotos.htm

[rerevisionist]

Recent posts from cluesforum.info; I contacted them asking them to look here - recently their posts have increased in quality.

Re: Nuke Hoax
Post by lux » October 29th, 2011, 10:01 pm

Here are some interestng and questionable points about the USS Indianapolis' mission and its Captain McVay:

Controversial Facts
* Captain McVay's request for a destroyer escort was denied despite the fact that no capital ship lacking anti-submarine detection equipment, such as the Indianapolis, had made this transit across the Philippine Sea without an escort during the entire war.

* Captain McVay was not told that shortly before his departure from Guam a Japanese submarine within range of his path had sunk a destroyer escort, the USS Underhill.

* Shortly after the Indianapolis was sunk, naval intelligence decoded a message from the I-58 to its headquarters in Japan that it had sunk an American battleship along the route of the Indianapolis. The message was ignored.

* Naval authorities then and now have maintained that the Indianapolis sank too quickly to send out a distress signal. A radioman aboard the Indianapolis testified at the September 1999 Senate hearing, however, that he watched the "needle jump" on the ship's transmitter, indicating that a distress signal was transmitted minutes before the ship sank, and sources at three separate locations have indicated that they were aware of a distress signal being received from the sinking ship. Its very likely that these distress signals were received but ignored as a Japanese trick to lure rescue vessels to the area.

* Confusion on the part of Navy communications and a faulty directive caused the failure of the Indianapolis to arrive on schedule to go unnoticed, leaving as many as 900 men at the mercy of a shark-infested sea. (The faulty directive - which required only reporting the arrival of non-combatant ships - was corrected days after the Indianapolis survivors were discovered to require reporting the arrival of combatant ships as well.)

Above taken from https://www.ussindianapolis.org/story.htm

Evidently the only reason there were any survivors at all from the Indianapolis was due to the heroic efforts of one pilot who just happened to fly over the wreck area and saw the men in the water.

Looks to me like somebody wanted to get rid of a ship full of witnesses.

lux

Re: Nuke Hoax
Post by corsarino » October 30th, 2011, 10:44 pm

Looks to me like somebody wanted to get rid of a ship full of witnesses.

Gen. Patton was killed in a strange road accident. His duty was to find the German nuclear devices but they preferred the option "NO witnesses".

[More on Patton (May 2013) probably murdered for other reasons - Rerevisionist]

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There was some sort of hearing in 1999 ('Senate Armed Services Committee hearing' on one day - Sept. 14th) but seems to have examined only the question of the treatment of Captain McVay. The somewhat more important issue of the multiple deaths seems to have been ignored. (I may be wrong about this - but the whole Indianapolis material, including survivor testimony, is reminiscent of the 9/11 'investigations' - long on unimportant personal details, short on anything serious.)