The USS Indianapolis is the first Freedom-class littoral combat ship to be modified to fire Hellfire missiles meant to take out enemy drones.

When Mary Welch, of Chaska, learned that wreckage of the World War II battleship USS Indianapolis had been found Aug. 19, it was a bittersweet moment. Torpedoed and sunk July 30 1945, its resting ...

At the time, 19-year-old seaman Loel Dean Cox was aboard the USS Indianapolis, a survivor of the tragic event who later ...

The in-depth story of the USS Indianapolis Disaster. This week is about sharks: In the final days of WWII, the crew of the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) faced a harrowing choice: Burn on their sinking ship ...

This story was originally published July 23, 1998 in the Chaska Herald. Paul Murphy always keeps fresh oranges in his house. He doesn’t make too much of this. In fact, ...

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The USS Indianapolis will sail again. Adm. Ricky Williamson announced Saturday night during a banquet for survivors of the warship lost during World War II that the Navy will give the city's name ...

Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen led a civilian research team that discovered the wreckage of the USS Indianapolis, a warship sank by Japanese torpedoes in 1945. More from Military & Defense ...

The celebrated USS Indianapolis was nearly blown in half by two Japanese torpedoes and sunk on July 30, 1945, a tragedy that also stands as one of World War II's most harrowing survival stories.

The discovery of the USS Indianapolis wreck site 18000 feet below the Philippine Sea is detailed The ships sinking during World War II was the largest loss of life in ...

The Portland-class USS Indianapolis played an essential role in the outcome of World War II, being the ship that delivered components for the atomic bombs. As the flagship of the U.S. Fifth Fleet ...