Giles G. McCoy |
Giles McCoy, 1940s. | World War II, 1939-1946
Marine Corps
7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division
Peleliu Island (Palau); Iwo Jima; Pacific Theater
Private First Class
St. Louis, MO
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After surviving three of the Pacific Theater's most harrowing campaigns and a kamikaze attack, Marine Giles McCoy thought the worst was over when his ship returned to the States for repairs in the summer of 1945. But that ship, the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis, had one more mission to perform, whose aftermath-hundreds of men stranded for days in shark-infested waters--was an event whose horrible consequences still reverberate.
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