Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...touches the sea with her feet" is a major Balkan port, served as an Allied base in World War I. Destroyed by a famous two-day fire in 1917, it was rebuilt as a modern city. Last week it was a shambles again; more than 50 ships had been sunk in its wide harbor, its docks and warehouses smashed by the retiring Germans...
...observers in the Pacific learned long ago that Japanese generals and admirals habitually deceive their own superiors at home. When Radio Tokyo claimed that the U.S. had lost the war, the desk admirals in Tokyo might well have believed that their admirals afloat in Philippine waters had actually sunk 17 transports, eight destroyers, eleven carriers, eleven cruisers, etc., as they had publicly claimed...
...less than 150 were shot down, some of them got in at the light carrier Princeton. She was bombed and set afire, gradually went to pieces as one explosion after another racked her slim 10,000-ton cruiser hull. When the main magazine went, she had to be sunk by U.S. gunfire...
...caught fire; then they turned and ran. In a 40-minute hail of shellfire at ranges of eight to ten miles, and a later hail of bombs as they trailed oil through the Mindanao Sea, the Japs lost the battleships Huso and Yamasiro. MacArthur proclaimed that every ship was sunk; Nimitz hedged, saying all units were "sunk or decisively defeated...
After two hours, she lay on her side and went down quietly. After another hour, a smaller carrier went down. Yet another of the same (Titose) class was sunk by air attack. One of the Zuiho class was polished off by cruiser gunfire, and so was a destroyer flotilla leader. A damaged cruiser was knocked out during the night by a lurking submarine. Both battleships in the force were damaged...