This story is about the sinking of the USS Indianapolis on July 30, 1945, days after delivering the components of the atomic bomb from California to the Pacific Islands. For the next five nights and four days, almost three hundred miles from the nearest land, the men battle injuries, sharks, dehydration, insanity, and eventually each other. Only 316 will survive. A decade of original research and interviews with 107 survivors and eyewit­nesses, Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic tell the complete story of the ship, her crew, and their final mission to save one of their own. The authors go beyond the men’s rescue to chronicle Indianapolis’s extraordinary final mission: the survivors’ fifty-year fight for justice on behalf of their skipper, Captain Charles McVay III, who is wrongly court-martialed for the sinking.  Lynn Vincent discusses with host Jim Fausone this unique survirors' perspective on this Naval History of WWII.