1.   A few weeks later he again narrowly escaped death aboard an evacuation freighter sunk by a Japanese torpedo.

2.   A Japanese torpedo had struck the battleship at a vulnerable spot.

3.   McCoy was one of the luckiest men aboard the Indianapolis when it was hit by two Japanese torpedoes.

4.   Sixty years ago, dressed in his whites for Sunday morning mass, he swam ashore amid burning oil after Japanese torpedoes sank the USS California.

5.   Johnston, who was a radio operator during World War II, survived a Japanese torpedo attack that sank his ship off Hawaii.