Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...submarines in the Pacific this week reported their biggest haul of the war: 12 Jap ships sunk, 1 probably sunk, 3 damaged. With this bag, the submarines' total came to 181 Jap ships sent to the bottom, or one-half of all Jap ships sunk since Pearl Harbor. Announced U.S. sub losses...
Washington reporters, hamstrung by Army & Navy censorship, trussed by red tape, and generally sunk by OWI's own inability to break out the news, were spluttering...
...their systematic, silent war against the shipping which supplied Japan's island conquests, U.S. submarines in the Pacific last week were credited with further success: seven Japanese vessels sunk, six of them merchant ships, one a destroyer. This brought the total of Japanese ships sent to the bottom by U.S. submarine action to 168. Also listed were 25 "probables" and 42 vessels damaged...
Australia's Air & Civil Aviation Minister Arthur Samuel Drakeford added estimates of Japanese shipping sunk by Allied action: 2,250,000 tons of warships and freight carriers. All told, the Jap was believed to have lost more ships since the outbreak of war than he had gained by seizure or new construction...
...record also lists another battleship and a heavy cruiser "probably sunk," and two more battleships, a carrier, four cruisers and miscellaneous naval small fry damaged by direct hits. During all these operations Enterprise lost 85 planes but rescued many of the crews...