Mondor, Colleen Catherine

Colleen Mondor, a student at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, solicited letters from survivors of the sinking of the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis as part of a research paper in 1995-1996. The USS Indianapolis saw combat duty in the South Pacific during World War II. The ship was sunk by a Japanese submarine on 26 July 1945, shortly after delivering parts for assemblage of the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. The ship's commandor, Captain Charles Butler McVay III (1898-1968), was court-martialled and found guilty of negligence in the sinking.

From the description of USS Indianapolis correspondence, 1995-1996. (Indiana Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 50528854