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Congress awards its highest honor to USS Indianapolis crew

by Associated Press
| July 30, 2020 1:03 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress has awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, its highest honor, to surviving crew members of the USS Indianapolis, the ship that delivered key components of the first nuclear bomb and was later sunk by Japan during World War II.

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