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Originally Posted by irish1958
The Indianapolis was torpedoed and sunk because the egomaniac MacArthur used up all the oil on his quest to be the new Caesar; as a result if the Indianapolis followed the proscribed regs to zigzag it would have been dead in the water about half way to port. In an attempt to reach port, the skipper chose to run straight and it turned out badly.
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I never had much high regard for MacArthur and his glory hound antics, much less his feigned drama. Talk about egotist.
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