Table of Contents
Introduction: Crew Members, Rescuers ix
Part I
1 The USS Indianapolis and Her Secret Cargo 1
2 Information Withheld 9
3 Torpedoes Fired 20
Part II
4 Fires Spreading 35
5 Abandon Ship! 44
6 Radio Messages Ignored 55
7 Survivors, Drifting Apart 66
8 Is There a Doctor? 75
9 Bumps in the Water 84
10 Shark Attacks 94
11 Deadly Assumptions and a Deadly Temptation 101
12 Delirium Ignites Violence 111
13 Hallucinations in Full Boil 118
14 Father Conway and Captain Parke 128
Part III
15 Peleliu Island and Hope From Above 139
16 Supplies Falling From the Sky 147
17 The First Rescue 156
18 Ships Arrive 165
19 From One Kind of Fear to Another 173
20 Recovery 181
Epilogue 191
A Note From Doug Stanton 207
The USS Indianapolis/Gwinn "Angel" Scholarship 215
Glossary 217
Michael Tougias's Books 223
Bibliography 225