Word: sink
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Airplanes can sink battleships and the bigger the battleship the bigger the mark. Japan, England and Italy know it. Why are the American people not allowed to know...
Naval Big Guns. The argument about the relative value of plane and battleships boils down to a complex problem in strategy. In current naval theory planes are employed primarily not to sink rival battleships but: 1) to scout their position, 2) to disable them by bombing, 3) to direct the fire of their own ships which may be hull down over the horizon...
...Chinese did not, however, give the credit to Mme Chiang Kaishek. They remembered last week that all during the Japanese siege of Shanghai, defending Chinese troops complained that her planes rarely ventured to bomb the Japanese in daylight, bombed them only ineffectively at night, failed to sink or score a direct hit on the Japanese flagship Idzumo which lay anchored a fair target in the Whangpoo, week after week...
Navy Will Sink...
...soon transferred Hero Niemoller to the larger, modern U-151 and this submarine on a single marauding 114-day voyage hung up a record of 55,000 tons of Allied shipping gesunken. Commander Niemoller was next given the UC-67 with which he stole about outside Marseille, managed to sink so many French ships that the port was ordered temporarily closed. So many Allied sub-chasers were then assigned to get the UC-67? that even Daredevil Niemoller saw the game was up, cleared...