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US Navy cruiser USS Indianapolis loads previsions before departure to the Pacific, April 14, 1937. AP Photo/DBJ USS Indianapolis was one of two Portland-class heavy cruisers.

The USS Indianapolis CA 35 was a Portland-class heavy cruiser in the U.S. Navy that was struck by Japanese torpedoes while en route from Guam to the Leyte Gulf in the Philippines in July 1945.