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Sailor Receives Navy Cross for Saving Sailors From Sharks Over five days, the shipwrecked sailors fought against sharks, hypothermia, and desperation. Lieutenant Thomas Conway, a Navy chaplain, was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for his actions during the sinking of the USS Indianapolis in the last days of World War 2. On July 30, 1945, Lt. Conway was a Catholic priest assigned to the USS Indianapolis, a heavy cruiser, that was sailing from Guam to Okinawa in preparation for the invasion of Japan. A few days prior, the USS Indianapolis had completed a highly secretive mission. The cru...

WASHINGTON

Navy Secretary Braithwaite apologized that it took more than 75 years since World War II ended to honor the fallen chaplain.

The Rev. Thomas Conway, the heroic chaplain of the ill-fated USS Indianapolis, was awarded the Navy Cross posthumously on Friday for his selfless courage.

Seventy-five years after the end of the war in the Pacific, the Department of the Navy posthumously awarded the Navy Cross to a World War II Chaplain.,