Mochitsura Hashimoto
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Mochitsura Hashimoto (Japanese: 橋本以行, Hashimoto Mochitsura) (1909-October 25, 2000) was the commander of the Japanese submarine Japanese submarine I-58 which sank the USS Indianapolis on July 30, 1945. The sinking of the Indianapolis was the single greatest disaster in US naval history. After the war, Hashimoto testified in the court martial against Captain McVay, commander of the Indianapolis who was convicted for "hazarding his ship by failing to zigzag." [1] Decades later, Hashimoto sent a letter to Senator John Warner as part of an effort to exonerate McVay. Hashimoto spent the final years of his life as a Shinto priest in Kyotoand joined the surviving crew of the USS Indianapolis to exonerate Captain Charles Butler McVay III.
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- Dan Kurzman. Fatal Voyage, 1990.
