德国之声, Aug 21, 2017
http://www.dw.com/zh/%E6%AD%BB%E ... E8%BA%AB/a-40170013
(" '印第安纳波利斯' 号巡洋舰曾运送广岛原子弹的最后部分至提尼安岛(Tinian)。1945年7月30日,这艘巨大的巡洋舰在回程中 [back to 被日本鱼雷击中,还未来得及发出紧急呼救信号,便在短短12分钟内沉没")
Note:
(a) "广岛原子弹的最后部分至提尼安岛(Tinian)"
(i) Mariana Islands
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_Islands
is composed of two US territories:
(A) Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI, whose "vast majority of the population resides on Saipan, Tinian, and Rota") Wikipedia
(B) Guam
(ii) Tinian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinian
section 3.5 World War II, section 3.5.2 North Field: "North Field was the departure point of * * * B-29 bombers Enola Gay and Bockscar, which respectively carried the two atomic bombs named Little Boy and Fat Man, that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki")
(b) crew’s -- not Navy's, because there is none for the latter -- official site for
USS Indianapolis (CA-35)
http://www.ussindianapolis.org/
("At 12:14 am [local time]. on July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in the Philippine Sea and sank in 12 minutes. Of 1,196 men on board, approximately 300 went down with the ship. * * * The ship was never missed [after the sinking] * * * Unfortunately, the conviction for hazarding his ship by failing to zigzag remains on Captain McVay's record. Never in the history of the U.S. military has the verdict of a court-martial been overturned, and there is no known process for doing so")
(i) In the left margin is "Mochitsura Hashimoto 橋本 以行," captain of I-58 submarine 伊58 )full name: 伊号第五十八潜水艦).
(ii) from ピクシブ [pixiv] 百科事典:
大日本帝国海軍 潜水艦:
(A) 一等潜水艦 1st class submarines: 伊号潜水艦 (I- )
(B) 二等潜水艦 2nd Class submarines: "排水量500トン以上1,000トン未満の潜水艦を呂号 [Ro- ; Chinese pronunciation for 呂] 潜水艦、500トン未満の潜水艦は波号 [Ha- ; Chinese pronunciation for 波] 潜水艦とされた。"
(iii) Patrick J Finneran, The tragedy of The USS INDIANAPOLIS (CA-35).
http://www.ussindianapolis.org/pfinnstory.htm
(From Tinian, Indianapolis sailed South, made a brief stop at Guam (headquarters for the Pacific Fleet, under the command of * * * Chester A Nimitz), to replenish and receive new orders. Her new orders were to sail to Leyte Gulf--on the East Coast of the Philippines, some 1,500 nautical miles West of Guam, and there to join with the battleship Idaho * * * From Leyte she was to rejoin the fleet off Okinawa for the expected invasion of Japan [Okinawa]. * * * Indianapolis steamed out of Guam on the 28th of July, unescorted--for she was now in the backwaters of the war--and planned a three day voyage to Leyte * * * approximately halfway between the Philippines and Guam, the Japanese submarine I-58 * * * ")
(A) Leyte Gulf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyte_Gulf
(bounded by "Leyte island in the west;" see map)
(B) Leyte
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyte
(introduction: Battle of Leyte Gulf [Oct 23-26, 1944; the battleships thrown in were one-sided, so was the outcome]; section 3 Historical and interesting sites: "The MacArthur Landing Memorial National Park in Red Beach, Palo, marks the [Oct 20,] 1944 landing by the American liberation forces")
(c) USS Indianapolis (CA-35)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indianapolis_(CA-35)
("Her sinking led to the greatest single loss of life at sea, from a single ship, in the history of the US Navy. * * * The Navy learned of the sinking when survivors were spotted four days later by the crew of a [bomber] PV-1 Ventura on routine patrol")
* hull classification symbol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_classification_symbol
(section 3 United States Navy hull classification codes: CA is one of cruiser codes)
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