The USS Indianapolis was a heavy cruiser. It did not have heavy armor making it vulnerable to torpedo attacks. She had been ordered to sail on July 16, 1945, to deliver a bomb that would end the war. Unfortunately it sank before arriving. It was July 30th around 11.30pm. Hashimoto, the captain of the Japanese submarine I-58, came onto the deck. He took the binoculars. Hashimoto saw a ship because the moon was behind it and gave the order to dive. Hashimoto was very worried that it was a destroyer ship coming to attack the submarine. Hashimoto couldn't see the Indianapolis well because he wasn't zigzagging. At 11.54pm Hashimoto ordered 6 torpedoes to be ready at a depth of 4 meters and a speed of 48 knots. Subsequently, Hashimoto had torpedoes fired at the ship. At 12:02 the first explosion occurred and then the second. Red flames rose up, illuminating the darkness. Smoke soon followed. By the second torpedo, all the men on the USS Indianapolis were wide awake. Things were starting to go wrong on the USS “Indy”. The flames were venting and all the power h...