Comments by "Kenneth Dean Miller" (@kennethdeanmiller7324) on "USS Indianapolis - Guide 191" video.

  1. What I don't get is how they could court-martial McVay for being the Captain of a ship sunk during war time when he did absolutely nothing wrong. But do absolutely NOTHING & I repeat NOTHING to Halsey for leaving his post protecting the flank of the invasion fleet at Leyte. THAT WAS a clear cut case of dereliction of duty & Taffy 3 paid the price for it. And typhoons are big & monsterous storms & should be easily avoided, however Halsey let his fleet get pounded by not one but 2 of these storms & lost almost all hands on 3-4 Destroyers AGAIN! And luckily a ship picking up survivors from these ships IGNORED orders & went on with it's search for survivors and every man rescued was a prayer answered! Some may not think that A BIG DEAL until you are the one in the water with sharks circling you.
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  2. THANK YOU. Even though that was a very long post I read the whole of it with much interest. I was aware of McVay's suicide and the push to have him exonerated. I also remember something about Nimitz disagreeing with the entire court martial. And it wasn't the loss of the ship that killed most of the crew, it was their mayday message being ignored & the fact that they were overdue but no one sent a search party. But the major thing that doomed this crew was the delivery of the atomic weapon that took so many lives at Hiroshima. IMHO, that was God's way of saying "I'm watching". 316 survivors? John 3:16 one of the most known verses in the Bible. Coincidence? Maybe. Believe what you want. I've never been one to preach & most that take it too far people consider nutty. One of my Aunts was like that & her sister told her. "The Lord wants righteous fruit. Not religious nuts."
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