Pat Shingleton for July 29, 2008
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Today marks an unfortunate anniversary as referenced in previous Weather News articles. On this date in 1945, during the final days of World War II, the moon rose at 10:30 p.m. in the Philippine Sea. Weather reports of that evening found the rising moon peeking through a broken overcast sky. Japanese submariners targeted the silhouette of a heavy cruiser on the eastern horizon. If not for the moon, the USS Indianapolis, delivering the first atomic bomb to Tinian Island, would have passed unnoticed. Nine hundred of the 1,200 sailors escaped the attack, but only 317 survived four days of exposure and shark attacks. On July 29, 2002, this celestial scene repeated on the Philippine Sea.
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