Compelling signed photograph, 8.5 x 11 in. b/w, showing the ill-fated USS INDIANAPOLIS in a side view. The photo is signed by eight survivors of the doomed heavy cruiser, torpedoed by a Japanese submarine on June 30, 1945 after delivering parts of Little Boy, the first nuclear weapon ever used in combat, to the U.S. Army Air Force Base on the island of Tinian. About 300 of the 1,196 men on board died in the attack. The rest of the crew, 880 men, floated in the water without lifeboats until the rescue was completed four days later. 321 crewmen came out of the water alive, with 317 ultimately surviving. Only one remains alive today. The photo only takes up half of the page while the signatures fill in the bottom half.