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Navy historian Richard Hulver solves mystery of USS Indianapolis tragedy
The ship carried President Franklin D. Roosevelt to South America and, later, components of the atomic bomb which was dropped on Hiroshima.
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Few U.S. Navy disasters resonate over decades as powerfully as that of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, which was torpedoed by Japanese forces near the end of World War II. One mystery is precisely how many men were on board the heavy cruiser for its last voyage. Now that mystery has finally been settled. Richard Hulver, an historian with the Navy History and Heritage Command, solved the Indianapolis mystery and he joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for more information.
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