ASW Aircraft Apr-May43

[Leandros]

Originally Posted by gi_dan2987

The Indianapolis was a tragic affair. I often wonder if their fate really was just happenstance.

Do you know that the Japanese U-boat captain that sank the Indianapolis wrote a book where he also describes that incident?

Many years after the war this captain, on his own suggestion, witnessed in US court to exonerate the captain of Indianapolis - he had been court-martialled, and condemned, for not zig-zagging - and therefore loosing his ship and more than 300 men. The U-boat captain testified that it would have made no difference to the end result. He also had Kaitens onboard which he saw no need to use. Conventional torpedoes did the job.

Fred