When Mary Welch, of Chaska, learned that wreckage of the World War II battleship USS Indianapolis had been found Aug. 19, it was a bittersweet moment. Torpedoed and sunk July 30 1945, its resting ...

Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen led a civilian research team that discovered the wreckage of the USS Indianapolis, a warship sank by Japanese torpedoes in 1945. More from Military & Defense ...

In 2001, Newport led a Discovery Channel-documented search for the USS Indianapolis and discovered the deepest wooden shipwreck ever, a 19th-century merchant ship, using Russian Mir submersibles.

He was a sailor on the USS Indianapolis, which was torpedoed and sunk in the Pacific Ocean war zone on July 30, 1945. Of the 1,196 crew members, only 316 survived. Four months later, the ship’s ...