Last 8 USS Indianapolis sailors identified after 81 years

Researchers have completed the identification of all crew members lost when the USS Indianapolis sank in 1945, finally accounting for the final eight sailors whose fates had remained unclear for decades. The ship went down in one of the Navy's worst peacetime disasters, claiming 1,196 lives that tragic evening.

This identification effort brings historical closure to a catastrophic event that has haunted military history records for over eight decades. The work honors the memory of the lost crew members and provides their descendants with a complete accounting of what happened to their loved ones.