“Knowing how men in the water died is not the same thing as knowing why they died.” This quote is from the book Left for Dead, saying that there is a difference of how and why they died. These men were head to receive the atomic bomb that would end World War 2. However, the Japanese had a submarine out in the waters waiting for the USS Indianapolis, and when they sighted the ship they fired torpedoes at the ship to sink it in 12 minutes.
There many ways on how they could of survived. Instead, nobody noticed the ship not making it to shore or that there was no response. Maybe the reason they died was because of no one was tracking the ship to make sure it was successful. More men died after the sinking because of there being no rescue
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When they were dying they were asking themselves, “Why is this happening to me?” or “Why isn’t nobody caring that we are all dying out here?” These men were trying to survive but over half of the crew died because no one was there for them. The men, being terrified about dying, knew that no one was coming so they finally gave up on there being a rescue.
There was a theory of why the ship had been attacked and started to sink. It was that Captain
McVay didn’t try his hardest to stay clear of the attack. There is no proof that this is actually realistic because no one warned him about there being Japanese submarines in the water the direction of where the
USS Indianapolis was headed to. He made the mistake of not zigzagging to make sure they were safe. The question for him was, “Why did the ship go down that quickly with you in charge of it?” Everyone blamed him, he was the scapegoat for the tragedy. He wanted to make sure everyone survived, but no one else believed him or his story. The reason why he died at the end was not from the ship or sharks, but he committed suicide because he knew he was innocent but others believed he was the guilty party of the failure of the USS
There many ways on how they could of survived. Instead, nobody noticed the ship not making it to shore or that there was no response. Maybe the reason they died was because of no one was tracking the ship to make sure it was successful. More men died after the sinking because of there being no rescue
planes …show more content…
When they were dying they were asking themselves, “Why is this happening to me?” or “Why isn’t nobody caring that we are all dying out here?” These men were trying to survive but over half of the crew died because no one was there for them. The men, being terrified about dying, knew that no one was coming so they finally gave up on there being a rescue.
There was a theory of why the ship had been attacked and started to sink. It was that Captain
McVay didn’t try his hardest to stay clear of the attack. There is no proof that this is actually realistic because no one warned him about there being Japanese submarines in the water the direction of where the
USS Indianapolis was headed to. He made the mistake of not zigzagging to make sure they were safe. The question for him was, “Why did the ship go down that quickly with you in charge of it?” Everyone blamed him, he was the scapegoat for the tragedy. He wanted to make sure everyone survived, but no one else believed him or his story. The reason why he died at the end was not from the ship or sharks, but he committed suicide because he knew he was innocent but others believed he was the guilty party of the failure of the USS