Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fought in secrecy. He and Secretary Knox were both asked: Has the U.S. struck back? Both refused to answer. Around the U.S., in rumors, in stories someone had heard, in letters from sailors someone had seen, there were reports that U.S. warships had sunk two submarines, three submarines, 16 submarines...
...less a pair of authorities than the Secretary of the Navy and its Commander in Chief last week told the U.S. people that even when the Navy had sunk German submarines, the sinking would not become public knowledge...
...Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox said: "Great Britain has been in the war a long time. The Germans have been attacking them with submarines for a long time. Obviously, the British have sunk a great many subs, but the public has heard very little about them. We will be governed by the same policy. If it seems best strategically not to reveal a sinking, we won't reveal...
Somewhere west of Iceland the Reuben James was sunk. The Navy merely said ". . . by a torpedo during the night. . . ." Walter Sorensen was aboard when the torpedo hit. Rube had none of the Kearny's fancy compartmentation; she just holed and sank, and Walter Sorensen went into the sea with...
WASHINGTON--The Navy Department today abandoned hope of rescuing the 95 missing members of the crew of the U. S. Destroyer Reuben James, which was torpedoed and sunk off Iceland last month, and announced belatedly that the 16,800 ten Naval tanker Salinas had been "seriously damages" by a U-boat in the same general area...