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Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Recalls the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis at the end of World War II, the navy cover-up and unfair court martial of the ship's captain, and how a young boy helped the survivors set the record straight fifty-five years later.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
A young readers edition of Doug Stanton and Michael J. Tougias' New York Times bestseller In Harm's Way--a riveting World War II account of the greatest maritime disaster in US naval history. On July 30, 1945, the U.S.S. Indianapolis was torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine. An estimated 300 men were killed upon impact; close to 900 sailors were cast into the Pacific Ocean, where they remained undetected by the navy for nearly four...
Author
Series
Great sea battles of World War II volume 1
Pub. Date
c1981
Description
An account of the June, 1942, air battle between American and Japanese forces which proved a decisive defeat for the Japanese and the turning point of the war in the Pacific.
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