Video: 'USS Indianapolis - The Darkest Moments of World War II'

(Monday, July 30, 1945, 12:14 a.m. local time; during World War II) — The Portland class heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis, having just delivered components of the atomic bomb to Tinian in the Mariana Islands, was torpedoed today by a Japanese submarine; only 317 out of nearly 1,200 men survived.

Video: 'Survivors of USS Indianapolis floating in rubber rafts at sea and being rescued b...HD Stock Footage'