Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Finally we got close enough so I knew the shells from three ships were hitting him. He was burning and exploding all over. Just as we prepared to open up with torpedoes he sank with a terrible explosion." The box score, after the fight was over: four Jap ships sunk, I damaged,I escaped, no U.S. losses...
...umbrella of limited scope when the Jap in Central China and along the Salween front of western Yunnan stabs at the tough, resilient Chinese lines. But the Fourteenth has a consolation of sorts: its men know that they are contributing to a much greater show. Every ship sunk and every plane shot down by Chennault's men lessens the Jap potential in more active theaters of war. A young colonel of the Fourteenth commented: "We're a thorn in their side. We aren't serious but we hurt. The Japs are like boxers: if they take...
...Beirut, diplomats labored and negotiated. General Georges Catroux, rushed in as trouble shooter for General Charles de Gaulle and the French Committee, worked late, his sunken cheeks grey with fatigue, his deep-sunk eyes blazing with anger at "the plot." The existence of "the plot"-to build up British influence in the Levant at French expense-was taken for granted even by sobersided Frenchmen, although any such sinister motives were hotly denied by British Minister Sir Edward Spears and U.S. Diplomatic Agent George Wadsworth...
Atlantic. Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill confirmed what Navy men have known for weeks: the Nazis have failed miserably in their autumn "comeback" in the Atlantic. In August, September and October approximately 60 U-boats were destroyed. Of these at least 21 were sunk by U.S. carrier-based aircraft. In the last six months the Nazis certainly have lost 150 of their 400-500 submarines, probably many more...
...well and audaciously the U.S. submarine fleet has operated was attested to this week when the Navy announced the sinking, by submarines, of seven more Jap ships making the score for U.S. subs: 346 Jap ships sunk, 36 probably sunk, 114 damaged. Submariners have accounted for 77% of the total enemy shipping sunk or damaged in the Pacific...