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Back in the United States, the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) went into dry dock, and Lebow went to Texas on leave [Annotator...

Adolfo V. Celaya was taken aboard the Basset [Annotator’s Note: USS Bassett (APD-73), which rescued 154 survivors of...

Sharks began circling the group of survivors, and Cleatus Lebow said the predators were attacking men who broke away...

Adolfo V. Celaya returned to the United States after the war. He was on the aircraft carrier Hollandia [Annotator’s...

Hunger and thirst tormented Cleatus Lebow and his fellow shipmates from the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) who were stranded...

Donald Herbert Shown joined the Navy and completed boot camp in San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California] in...

Edgar Harrell was born in October 1924 in Cadiz, Kentucky. He was 18 when he joined the United States Marine Corps in...

Donald Herbert Shown [Annotator’s Note: Shown had become a crewman aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) in 1939] headed...

Only two of them were assigned to capital ships [Annotator's Note: after graduating from the US Naval Academy] and both...

Edgar Harrell was floating in the Pacific Ocean with a life jacket while other were not [Annotator's Note: after he...

Paul J. Murphy was born in Chillicothe, Missouri. He graduated from high school in 1943 and was immediately drafted...

[Annotator's Note: This segment begins with the interviewer asking Harlan Twible to describe the USS Indianapolis (CA-...

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