Connect to the film on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/USS-Franklin-Film/150358838341598 Emotions run deep, still today, in the surviving men of the USS Franklin. The carrier, known as "The Ship, Which Wouldn't Die", survived a direct hit by a Japanese armor-piecing bomb just 40 miles off the coast of Japan in March 1945 and was eventually able to return under her own power to New York for repairs.