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...heavy cruiser Indianapolis was almost the last of the 437 combat ships lost by the U.S. Navy in World War II. Her loss led to the first general court-martial of a ship's commanding officer. In most cases where ships were sunk, routine reports were enough to show that negligence was not a factor; in others, courts of inquiry reached the same finding. Not so in the case of the cruiser which carried parts of the first atomic bomb to the Marianas, only to be lost a few days later on the way to Leyte, with the heaviest...
Uniform of the Night. The proceedings would throw a legal searchlight on some, but not all, of the dark questions asked by hundreds of next of kin in angry letters to the Navy since the "Indy" was lost. The court-martial should show whether McVay, who was born to Navy tradition (his father is a retired admiral), was justified in steaming on a straight course at only 17 knots, especially as the ship had no submarine detection gear...
Because hundreds (perhaps a majority) of the casualties got off the ship but were lost later, while wallowing for three days in the Philippine Sea, the answers to these questions were as important to Navy families as those to be answered in the court-martial of Captain McVay...
...will now start on Nov. 15. ¶ The committee will not waste time junketing to Pearl Harbor. ¶ All Army & Navy personnel will be free to testify without any fear of subsequent court-martial or detriment to their future promotion. ¶ The question of whether or not Cordell Hull's blast of Nov. 26, 1941 actually set off the war (as the Army Pearl Harbor Board had charged) was apparently settled; it did not. Navy Secretary Forrestal reported the finding of documents in a sunken Jap vessel which showed that the Pearl Harbor attack had been approved...
When genial, chubby-faced Jim Lucas joined the Marines, he left a reporting job on the Tulsa Tribune's courthouse beat, and his Boy Scoutmastering. He became a crack combat correspondent, got out the first story of the landing on Tarawa-and was threatened with court-martial for writing that "something suddenly appeared to have gone wrong." He covered eight Marine landings, then was sent home on a war-bond tour...