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Former Chaska resident seeks to clear his captain’s USS Indianapolis record
He retired in 1995. Murphy is the current chairman of the USS Indianapolis Survivors Organization. The group was organized in 1960, nearly 15 years after the war. Reunions were held every five years.
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This Hero Rallied Wounded USS Indianapolis Survivors
the surviving crew of the sunken USS Indianapolis was in a living nightmare. Thanks to Marine Captain Edward Parke's display of heroism, he gave survivors that extra push to stay alive.
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Lost, now found: Local connection to the discovery of historic warship wreckage
He remarried and was a sales representative for engineering products. And he and the other USS Indianapolis survivors started a campaign to overturn the court martial of their ship’s captain ...
Monsters of the deep: The USS Indianapolis and the terror beneath the waves
At the time, 19-year-old seaman Loel Dean Cox was aboard the USS Indianapolis, a survivor of the tragic event who later ...
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Navy plans to name new ship USS Indianapolis
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 ...