On this day in 1945, the cruiser USS Indianapolis sailed from San Francisco on a top secret mission to the tiny South Pacific island of Tinian. In the warship's hold is a deadly cargo: the Hiroshima bomb.
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Stores Basin, Sembawang Dockyard, Singapore, 1974. RFA TIDESURGE and RFA TIDESPRING visiting with HMS LONDONDERRY, HMS SYCLLA, HMS DANAE, HMS CHICHESTER, HMAS VENDETTA, HMS HYDRA, HMS ARIADNE, HMS WASPERTON, HMS YARNTON, HMNZS OTAGO,
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Where is Tinian? NOT South Pacific!!!
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