USN · CA
Indianapolis
Photos and infoPortland-class heavy cruiser. She left San Francisco on 16 July 1945 with components of the Hiroshima bomb, Little Boy, and unloaded them at Tinian on 26 July. She was not carrying the finished bomb. After a stop at Guam she sailed for Leyte alone. Just after midnight on 30 July, I-58 hit her with two torpedoes. She sank in about twelve minutes. Of 1,199 men, 316 were rescued.
Portland classSunk by I-58 on 30 July 1945, four days after she delivered components of the Little Boy bomb to Tinian. Not Minneapolis.
USS Indianapolis (CA-35) at anchor in 1944.jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Sinking of Indianapolis
1945-07-30 · sunk by I-58
