No person here, certainly not I, doubts your sincerity or patriotism. However, I think you are making too much of the fact that we broke the Japanese code(s). By the time of this disaster the A-bombs were less than a month from being dropped. Nothing would change that. I think that a destroyer escort could not possibly have hurt the war effort, and it may, indeed, have saved those 1,197 warriors lives, from suffering and death. We will never know if it would have made the difference, because someone, or a group of someones, decided not to tell McVey which route home would be safest and did not think it necessary for a destroyer escort. I wonder, if some of the big wigs who had that knowledge and power had been aboard the U.S.S.Indianapolis, would the decisions made have been the same? I doubt it. In that case, the safest route would have been determined, plotted and followed home, with a destroyer escort.




Regards, Walter