USN WORLD WAR II
Chief Electrician's Mate James B. Annis Jr, MIA/KIA missing, date of loss July 30, 1945
Hometown: Lowry City Missouri
Wife, Mrs. Geraldine May Annis
Ship: USS Indianapolis CA-35
Service # 3421382,
Awards: Purple Heart
Captain: Charles B. McVay III
Mission: Indianapolis received orders to undertake a top-secret mission of the utmost significance to national security: to proceed to Tinian island carrying the enriched uranium and other parts required for the assembly of the atomic bomb codenamed "Little Boy", which would be dropped on Hiroshima a few weeks later.
Mission Date: delivered the atomic bomb components to Tinian on 26 July Lost 30-Jul-45
Location: Caroline Islands,
Cause: struck on her starboard side by two Type 95 torpedoes Japanese submarine I-58
Crew: Approximately 300 of the ship's 1,195 Sailors went down with the ship, and some 900 men were set adrift. Only 316 survived
The sinking of Indianapolis resulted in the greatest loss of life at sea from a single ship in the history of the US Navy. On 19 August 2017, a search team financed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen located the wreckage in the Philippine Sea lying at a depth of approximately 18,000 ft (5,500 m)
CEM Annis appears tablets of the missing Manila American Cemetery and Memorial. He has a cenotaph memorialLowry City Cemetery Missouri, his body was never recovered.
Chief Electrician's Mate James B. Annis Jr, MIA/KIA missing, date of loss July 30, 1945
Hometown: Lowry City Missouri
Wife, Mrs. Geraldine May Annis
Ship: USS Indianapolis CA-35
Service # 3421382,
Awards: Purple Heart
Captain: Charles B. McVay III
Mission: Indianapolis received orders to undertake a top-secret mission of the utmost significance to national security: to proceed to Tinian island carrying the enriched uranium and other parts required for the assembly of the atomic bomb codenamed "Little Boy", which would be dropped on Hiroshima a few weeks later.
Mission Date: delivered the atomic bomb components to Tinian on 26 July Lost 30-Jul-45
Location: Caroline Islands,
Cause: struck on her starboard side by two Type 95 torpedoes Japanese submarine I-58
Crew: Approximately 300 of the ship's 1,195 Sailors went down with the ship, and some 900 men were set adrift. Only 316 survived
The sinking of Indianapolis resulted in the greatest loss of life at sea from a single ship in the history of the US Navy. On 19 August 2017, a search team financed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen located the wreckage in the Philippine Sea lying at a depth of approximately 18,000 ft (5,500 m)
CEM Annis appears tablets of the missing Manila American Cemetery and Memorial. He has a cenotaph memorialLowry City Cemetery Missouri, his body was never recovered.
USN WORLD WAR II
Chief Electrician's Mate James B. Annis Jr, MIA/KIA missing, date of loss July 30, 1945
Hometown: Lowry City Missouri
Wife, Mrs. Geraldine May Annis
Ship: USS Indianapolis CA-35
Service # 3421382,
Awards: Purple Heart
Captain: Charles B. McVay III
Mission: Indianapolis received orders to undertake a top-secret mission of the utmost significance to national security: to proceed to Tinian island carrying the enriched uranium and other parts required for the assembly of the atomic bomb codenamed "Little Boy", which would be dropped on Hiroshima a few weeks later.
Mission Date: delivered the atomic bomb components to Tinian on 26 July Lost 30-Jul-45
Location: Caroline Islands,
Cause: struck on her starboard side by two Type 95 torpedoes Japanese submarine I-58
Crew: Approximately 300 of the ship's 1,195 Sailors went down with the ship, and some 900 men were set adrift. Only 316 survived
The sinking of Indianapolis resulted in the greatest loss of life at sea from a single ship in the history of the US Navy. On 19 August 2017, a search team financed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen located the wreckage in the Philippine Sea lying at a depth of approximately 18,000 ft (5,500 m)
CEM Annis appears tablets of the missing Manila American Cemetery and Memorial. He has a cenotaph memorialLowry City Cemetery Missouri, his body was never recovered.
Chief Electrician's Mate James B. Annis Jr, MIA/KIA missing, date of loss July 30, 1945
Hometown: Lowry City Missouri
Wife, Mrs. Geraldine May Annis
Ship: USS Indianapolis CA-35
Service # 3421382,
Awards: Purple Heart
Captain: Charles B. McVay III
Mission: Indianapolis received orders to undertake a top-secret mission of the utmost significance to national security: to proceed to Tinian island carrying the enriched uranium and other parts required for the assembly of the atomic bomb codenamed "Little Boy", which would be dropped on Hiroshima a few weeks later.
Mission Date: delivered the atomic bomb components to Tinian on 26 July Lost 30-Jul-45
Location: Caroline Islands,
Cause: struck on her starboard side by two Type 95 torpedoes Japanese submarine I-58
Crew: Approximately 300 of the ship's 1,195 Sailors went down with the ship, and some 900 men were set adrift. Only 316 survived
The sinking of Indianapolis resulted in the greatest loss of life at sea from a single ship in the history of the US Navy. On 19 August 2017, a search team financed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen located the wreckage in the Philippine Sea lying at a depth of approximately 18,000 ft (5,500 m)
CEM Annis appears tablets of the missing Manila American Cemetery and Memorial. He has a cenotaph memorialLowry City Cemetery Missouri, his body was never recovered.
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