Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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LONDON--British troops battled to hold a small but important gain in upper Tunisia tonight while Allied planes and submarines claimed 19 more enemy ships sunk or damaged in the struggle for controls of the nearby Silian narrows, last Axis supply road to Africa...
...Newport News, Rear Admiral Elliott Buckmaster, commander of the carrier Yorktown when she was sunk after Midway, June 7, was midstream in a speech celebrating the launching of a new carrier of the same name. Then something extraordinary happened. Imperceptibly the great bow towering above the speaker's stand began to move. Admiral Buckmaster stopped. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, sponsor of both Yorktowns, rushed to the platform edge, swung her bottle of champagne just as the giant craft slid down the ways five minutes ahead of schedule...
...Navy began the war with seven carriers. Four were sunk in the first year: Lexington, York town, Wasp, Hornet. That left three. The Japs, though they had lost between six and eight, still had perhaps five...
...public (and the Japs) may not learn of the actual commissioning of some of these ships until after they have been sunk. But it is reasonable to suppose that the Essex, which was begun in April 1941, and launched in July 1942, will be ready soon, if it is not already in service. The Lexington should follow soon. After that about a carrier a month ought to go to the fleet...
Britain started the war with six carriers. Five have been sunk. Six new ones have joined the fleet (including two new 23,000-tonners, Indefatigable and Implacable, whose commissioning was announced last week). Britain's carrier strength is therefore greater than it was before the war. The British increase is, in effect, a blow at Japan. It means that the British no longer have to rely on U.S. help in the pinches, and at least some of the increase may be felt in the Indian Ocean, where the enemy is Japan...