U.S.S. Indianapolis update

Oldest Living Survivor of the Sinking of the USS Indianapolis Dies Aged 98.

Jim Jarvis, the oldest survivor of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis, died on 6th June 2020 in Uniontown, Ohio.
Jim was a well-known character and attended the reunions of the survivors of the Indianapolis.
His sense of humor could be seen at these reunions when he appeared wearing shorts with a shark-skin pattern printed on them and a t-shirt sporting the slogan “USS Indianapolis Swim Team”.
The sinking of this heavy cruiser and the subsequent battle to stay alive until rescued, shaped the man that Jarvis became later on in his life.
The USS Indianapolis was massive and heavily armed. She was a heavy cruiser of the Portland Class and served in the Pacific theatre during World War II.
In July 1945, she was tasked with a secret mission. The mission was to deliver cargo to Tinian Island in the South Pacific.
No one on board had any clue that the cargo they carried and delivered contained the components and uranium required to assemble the world’s first atomic bomb, codenamed ‘Little Boy.”
In those horrific days, over 550 men died from dehydration, exhaustion, or were taken by the ever-circling sharks. When rescue arrived, there were only 316 men left clinging to the flotsam. Of those 316 men, only nine remain alive today.