In harm's way: the sinking of the U.S.Indianapolis by Doug Stanton #940.54

This is a nonfiction account of the sinking of U.S. Indianapolis by a Japanese airplanes. The ship sank in fourteen minutes sending more than 1,000 sailors into the water, four days later when they were finally found there were only 317 sailors still alive. "Left for Dead" by Pete Nelson #940.54 NEL is a companion story that tells how an 11 year old boy used the disaster of the Indianapolis as a history fair project and finally cleared the name of the skipper of the ship who had been court-martialed by the navy.