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My dad was the CO of the landing craft (really a small amphib ship, that actually went island to island, and operated independantly at times) that transhipped the bomb from the cruiser to the island. They had a large crate and Marines with literal shoot to kill orders if anyone touched it. The big ships had to anchor off shore from islands and then amphibs were basically used to ferry stuff to shore (because of the draft). If you read the beginning of Abandon Ship, they mention how that was done (more briefly than I have). TCO (talk) 06:37, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/USS_Indianapolis_in_popular_culture

FYI. postdlf (talk) 02:23, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Enriched uranium

An IP just added a "citation needed" tag after this: "After major repairs and an overhaul, Indianapolis received orders to proceed to Tinian island, carrying parts and the enriched uranium..." This seems supported by the source to me. On page 662 it says "A manifest describes the truck's expensive cargo: a. 1 bx., wt about 300 lbs, containing projectile assembly of active material for the gun type bomb." Earlier passages make it clear they are talking about enriched uranium. What is the specific objection here? Kendall-K1 (talk) 13:39, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

FYI- If such a tag is placed, and there is evidence, by "known" facts or by reference that such tag is not warranted, it can be reverted or edited out, of course pointing out the reasoning on the talk page or at least the edit summary. If the reversion or editing is contested it can be discussed per WP:BRD. Otr500 (talk) 18:41, 2 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
A book source:
    • East Tennessee in World War II states that after the successful "Trinity" test "necessary parts for two different types of bombs, one with enriched uranium and one with plutonium, were carried to Tinian Island by the USS Indianapolis". This reference does not advance that any form of uranium or plutonium was carried on the ship just parts for the two bombs. Otr500 (talk) 07:01, 3 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Article assessment

With five projects covering this article, all presenting the same assessment, but there are issues needing attention. The article has content that is contested by virtue of "citation needed" tags. I reviewed one reference, and to me it provided source, but there are others. According to WikiProject assessment, specifically the criteria (expanded) for "B-class" that states:
  • 1)- "The article is suitably referenced, with inline citations. It has reliable sources, and any important or controversial material which is likely to be challenged is cited.", with the noted "...material which is likely to be challenged is cited.", and a "challenge" would certainly be evidenced by a citation needed tag, so the article needs to be edited to correct this or down-graded to "C-class", until such time as the actual criteria for B-class is reached.
The project assessment criteria for B-class:
  • Projects providing assessment:
    • WikiProject Ships --------------------------- Referencing and citation: checkY criterion met (It is suitably referenced, and all major points have appropriate inline citations.)
Articles assessed at B-class, which are above the class for individual review, may be submitted for assessment as a good article, through the good article nomination process. A requirement, among others, before any serious consideration, will be referencing and appropriate inline citations, so hopefully someone will look at the current assessment, the issues, and make appropriate improvements, so the article will deserve the current assessment and might be considered for advancement.
Agree with downgrading to C class if there is any unreferenced material. Mjroots (talk) 18:22, 4 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
If it were only a question of a few missing refs there wouldn't be an issue. However, too much material is unreferenced in this article. I'll adjust the assessment accordingly. Brad (talk) 22:23, 5 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. In my opinion the possibility concerning the "question of a few missing refs", only becomes an issue if such questions of "unreferenced material" are formally made known through tags or talk page comments. If there was only one then I would attempt to fix it which I did, but calling attention to the fact is notice and sufficient. I think the process and procedures are satisfied when the community takes note and takes appropriate action such as in this case. Otr500 (talk) 14:55, 9 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wreckage Found Date Conflict

The article lists August 18th (lower in the article) and 19th (higher in the article) as the date when the wreckage was found. I'm assuming this might be due to the International dateline. What should the date be? American Military History (talk) 01:44, 20 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright issue

Adding copyright template for potentially infringing text in Rescue section. Text is largely duplicated from http://www.ussindianapolis.org/story.htm, which dates back to (at least) 1999. Roboticon (talk) 18:34, 20 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Roboticon – please see below. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:36, 2 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright problem removed

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200mm and 130mm guns

Looks like somebody is using a rounded conversion from 5 inches to mm to input the diameter of the gun. 8 inch is 203mm, wile 5 inch is 127mm respectively. Just notifying. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.130.210.40 (talk) 05:26, 14 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Popular Culture Entry Repeatedly Removed

I am rather curious as to the reasoning why popular culture reference in regards to the ship's wreckage being a significant plot point in Meg: Hell's Aquarium is being routinely deleted, when the entry contain more information than several other "Pop Culture" entries, and has been further cleaned up to coincide with the wiki rules for adding pop culture references. The fictional location of the wreckage (as the book was written prior to actual discovery) serves, again, as a major plot point for the book. I don't know what other "proof" or references would be needed when the book itself is enough. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.239.26.207 (talk) 23:13, 21 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure exactly why it keeps getting deleted, I'm sure the other editors have reasons. I trimmed the entry down and fixed the reference, but this doesn't mean that it may not still get removed. Also, please make sure you sign your talk entries with ~~~~, this will automatically add your signature.Pennsy22 (talk) 04:34, 22 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I haven't seen a source provided that satisfies WP:IPCV. With regards to pop culture entries, the source must indicate not only that the pop culture occurrence is verifiable, but also that it is considered significant in some manner. A third-party source typically works best for this. Or, as I like to put it, we need not only proof that the tree fell in the woods, but that someone heard it fall. DonIago (talk) 16:37, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
That seems a sensible way to keep track of which trees need mentioning. But, also worth a mention, that is only a WP:ESSAY. MPS1992 (talk) 22:50, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
The section I linked to is part of an essay, yes, but there is a footnote linking back to an RfC on the matter. DonIago (talk) 20:25, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

How many?

I haven't read every word but I've looked in all the obvious places without finding: how many men were rescued? All I see is that "some" (of those who did not go down with the ship itself) suffered from this or that. —Tamfang (talk) 01:20, 29 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The sinking of the Indianapolis is missing a critical component. There is no addressing the background and complexity of a Submarine attack on a high speed warship (well in excess of any convoy speed at 17 knots)

The attack itself was not subject to any analysis other than the opinion of Hashimoto (see latter) that zig zag would not have made any difference (this is totally incredulous and is totally refuted by the War Facts of it was, even for slow convoys it hugely complicated a submarine firing solution and many times a sub had to abandon a convoy attack (at night) and if not surfaced already, surface, run outside and around the convoy to re-posting again and that assumed no base course change to cause issues again)

Due to warship high speed this never worked on a warship as at best a surface run was 20 knots and even at the Indianapolis 17 knots you would never get around to the front of a ship and make another attempt. Say you surfaced a bare mile behind the warship, it would take you an hour to get up to speed and come even. You then needed to get several miles ahead (assuming no radar) to reposition. So you would take at least 2 more hours (as soon as your same course speed stopped, the warship would be closing at a fast speed). Even if you still had a valid base course, you still have the zig zag issue to deal with that could again ruin a firing solution.

If your adversary was dong 20 knots it would be impossible. 20+ knots and you are left behind further and further.

The core defense of McVay was that it was a war time decision and there fore there can be no questioning his not ordering zig zag. There is a sub logic bust in that this was "not a war zone" then the combat/wartime defense then becomes squishy at best.

Zig zag was standard for any time there was good visibility and the night the Indianapolis sunk was indeed very goo visibility .

While high speed transit is a a significant factor in torpedoes defense, zig zag is the other critical component for that to be effective. Otherwise by luck of the draw a submarine could be in perfect position to sink a high speed ship.

Background wise the Queen Mary and Elizabeth carried upwards of 15,000 troops un-escorted, using high speed and zig zag and despite far more dense Atlantic submarine presence, did not suffer a single attack in WWII.

An American submarine commander and attack officer should have been called as witnesses in the trail. They could have explained the details of an attack, speed and zig zag and how that applied in this case.

Keep in mind, per Hashimoto, the range was 1500 yards. That is a very close shot, literally perfect distance. Its beyond sane logic that a zig zag course would not have changed that hugely.

The Indianapolis listed its speed at 17 knots. Hashimoto had it at 12 then 11 (murky on post attack or during).

Regardless, he had the speed off by at least 6 if not 7 knots when he was doing his firing solution.

Along with base course, the speed is one of the other critical key computations for a firing solution. Range being the last one.

Missing your speed by that amount is huge. While I am still working on it, from past, it would seem that at least 4 hits should have been registered on the Indianapolis. Possibly more as that detail is from WWII submarine encounters with US Torpedoes speed which the Japanese were faster (and per Hamshimoto, his were set at high speed not low speed.

Hashimoto stated his underwater speed (he was submerged at that point) was 8 knots. In fact he had no ability to affect his firing position if it was wrong. Ergo a zig or a zg off the Indianapolis base course would have left them both out of position and not ability to adjust due to the high speed involved.

An added study is needed to see how good his solution was (now many hits he should have achieved)

Eddystone3006 (talk) 19:20, 2 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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