GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — In August, researchers in the Pacific Ocean finally discovered the wreckage of the USS Indianapolis.
Word of the find spread across the globe. In Grand Rapids, Delores Sparks got wind of the discovery — and was left stunned.
“It was just almost unbelievable,” Sparks said of learning of the news.
The story of the ship is well known — a tragedy at sea.
It was July of 1945 at the end of World War II when two torpedoes from a Japanese submarine hit the ship.
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