ALPINE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — There are fewer than 30 surviving crew members of the USS Indianapolis, which was destroyed during World War II. On Monday, 24 Hour News 8 spoke with the only one who lives in Michigan.
Lansing native Dick Thelen, 90, spoke to a crowd and fielded questions at Kenowa Hills High School near Walker after a showing of “The USS Indianapolis: The Legacy.”
The documentary tells the story of the hundreds of soldiers who died — and those who survived — after the ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in the Philippine Sea on July 30, 1945.
Thelen was 18 at the time.
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