 July 1945. The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis had delivered the atomic bomb components to the Pacific Island air base on Tinian. Shortly after midnight on July 30th, tragedy struck. Two torpedoes from a Japanese submarine hit the Indie, sending her beneath the waves in 12 minutes. Now, 70 years later, the survivors reunite to remember the shipmates they lost. Code red, standby. Fire! And every two seconds he fires a torpedo, he fires six torpedoes. I looked up and there in the forward two doors into the wardroom where these great swirling caterpillars of flame that came in. And I jumped up, I was in my skivvy, and I just jumped up and put my pants and shirt on and was carrying my shoes. And then the second torpedo hit. Watch the full story of survival on ah.mil.