Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Navy heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis (CA-35). Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. World War II veteran Cleatus Lebow, 98, passed away Sept 29 in Amarillo; he was the oldest of only two remaining survivors of the ...

INDIANAPOLIS — One of the last remaining USS Indianapolis survivors passed away Tuesday. Robert “Bob” Witzig, 96, had served aboard the ship for an extensive time prior to the sinking. A post about ...

Jun. 11—It took 73 years to find the wreckage of the USS Eagle PE-56. Author and filmmaker Sara Vladic didn't want to wait that long to tell its story. Vladic, who along with Lynn Vincent wrote ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Sunday marked 78 years since the sinking of the USS Indianapolis. In total, 879 heroes were lost at sea July 30, 1945, when a Japanese submarine torpedoed the ship. To mark the occasion ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WRTV) -- Seventy-two years after two torpedoes fired from a Japanese submarine sunk cruiser USS Indianapolis, the ship’s wreckage was found resting on the seafloor on Saturday – more ...

Congress has awarded the crew of the USS Indianapolis its Congressional Gold Medal. The Gold Medal is Congress’s highest award for distinguished achievements and contributions to the United States. A ...

The survivors of one of World War II’s worst naval disasters were awarded Congressional Gold Medals in a ceremony last Friday. In the virtual ceremony, House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) ...

The Navy has changed the status of 13 World War II crew members of the ill-fated USS Indianapolis from “unaccounted for” to “buried at sea,” Navy officials announced this week. The Indianapolis had ...

Just after midnight on July 30, 1945, a Japanese torpedo struck the USS Indianapolis in the Philippine Sea, during World War II. Of the 1,196 men on board - 300 went down with the ship while around ...

With the passing of Cleatus Lebow on Thursday morning at the age of 98, Benician Harold Bray is now the lone living survivor from the legendary USS Indianapolis. Lebow, raised in Abernathy, Texas, ...