USS Indianapolis served in the New Guinea and Aleutian Islands campaigns, followed by operations across the Pacific in 1943 and 1944. Her 1945 assignment was to carry components of the Little Boy atomic bomb from San Francisco for assembly before the Hiroshima attack. She completed the delivery, then received routine movement and training orders. Torpedoes struck her on the onward voyage, opening the later controversy over responsibility for the ship and its survivors.
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Indianapolis from New Guinea to her final voyage
Indianapolis fought in the New Guinea and Aleutian Islands campaigns and across the Pacific before the Little Boy delivery placed her on the route to her loss.