interviewer: you just recently had a birthday, too, huh? harlan: yup. interviewer: did you grow up in gilbertville? harlan: the first 18 years, i was in gilbertville, and i have not spent any time since then. interviewer: is gilbertville where you would consider to be your hometown? harlan: it would be considered my hometown. interviewer: and how many brothers and sisters did you have growing up? what was your family size and makeup? harlan: two brothers and one sister. interviewer: where did you fit in? harlan: i was number three. interviewer: now tell me, before we started recording, we were talking a bit about your family and growing up during the depression years. could you tell me a little bit about that, about what life was like for you coming up during that time? harlan: my father was an irish-american. he emigrated from ireland to the united states to find a better place to live. and he and his family came over here, and i looked at their papers and found out they had
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In the final days of World War II, a US Navy crew endured unimaginable horrors when they were left stranded in the waters of the Pacific, facing hypothermia, madness and sharks. Jonny Wilkes tells the story of USS Indianapolis, and reveals how its sinking inspired a speech in Steven Spielberg masterpiece Jaws
After the devastating sinking of the USS Indianapolis in 1945, Mochitsura Hashimoto, the Japanese sub commander who gave the order to torpedo the ship, pushed to exonerate Navy Capt, Charles McVay during his court martial and, later, in Congress.