Wreckage of U.S.S. Indianapolis, Lost for 72 Years, Is Found in the Pacific<br />“While our search for the rest of the wreckage will continue, I hope everyone connected to this historic ship will<br />feel some measure of closure at this discovery so long in coming,” Mr. Allen said in a statement on his website.<br />Mr. Allen’s search expedition released pictures of wreckage on the sea floor, including a telltale piece of hull bearing the number 35 — evidence to the 22 still-living survivors<br />that the ship they frantically escaped in the early hours of July 30, 1945, had finally been found.<br />That was until Saturday, when a team led by Paul G. Allen, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, announced<br />that it had found unmistakable wreckage of the Indianapolis 18,000 feet deep in the Philippine Sea, rekindling memories of the Navy’s worst disaster at sea.
