Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were nervous, nightmarish indications of coming events. British and Axis craft met and fought savagely in the Channel. In one night battle a German destroyer was sunk, in another the Canadians' famed destroyer Athabascan went down...
Santa Cruz. By Oct. 26, 1942, the U.S. Navy and the hard-pressed Marines who had landed on Guadalcanal on Aug. 7 were still hanging on by the skin of their teeth. The carrier Hornet was sunk, and the recently repaired Enterprise was badly damaged. The destroyer Porter was sunk. The brand-new battleship South Dakota was damaged (and her famed Captain Thomas L. Gatch wounded). The cruiser San Juan suffered "considerable" damage. "We sank no enemy vessels . . . but there were partial compensations. Two enemy carriers had been put out of action and four Japanese air groups had been...
...week the first thundering quarter hour of the naval Battle of Guadalcanal, Nov. 13-15, 1942 had not been explained in any communiqué: "In the first 15 minutes . . . the Gushing had been put out of action by gunfire and was dead in the water; the Laffey had been sunk, the Sterett and O'Bannon had been damaged; the Atlanta was burning, and the San Francisco and Portland had been badly holed...
...submarines have definitely sunk an astounding total of 503 Jap ships (not counting 150 others in the "guesswork" category called "probably sunk or damaged"), an average of 4½ Jap ships for each of the 113 submarines that the U.S. had at the time of Pearl Harbor. As more U.S. submarines bore through to the Pacific, no Jap ship is safe from undersea attack, in harbor or at sea, alone or in convoy, near home or at the fringes of Japan's empire...
...Captain's son, Lt. Jonathan A. Barker, USN, graduated from the Naval Academy in December, 1941. His first assignment was the heavy cruiser "Vincennes," which was sunk in the Guadalcanal invasion. He is now on another heavy cruiser in the Central Pacific...