In July 1945, the USS Indianapolis was sunk.......

[Justdroppedin]

By a Japanese submarine and then set upon by sharks in the worst shark attack in human history, lasting 5 days and killing nearly 600 men.


https://i.redd.it/980tswpyrtx71.jpg

[dogdayz]

Only a week before the A-bomb was dropped and a month until the war with Japan ended.

[Terryl]

And it had just delivered the core for the Hiroshima bomb.

[dogdayz]

http://k100.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2018/11/Lest-we-Forget-3.jpg