Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Casually the U.S. Navy announced last week that, in five weeks of operations based on Guadalcanal, a single Navy dive-bomber squadron had attacked 04 ships, had sunk or damaged 18. By this record the squadron, under Lieut. Commander Louis J. ("Bullet Lou") Kirn, became easily the most experienced dive-bombing squadron in the Navy. The squadron's story...
Last week's compilation of ship sinkings showed that from Jan. 1, 1942 to Oct. 1, 490 Allied ships had been sunk in the western and south Atlantic by Axis submarines; from Oct. 1 to Dec. 20 only 65 more. This notable success in the Battle of the Atlantic was not gained in any single thrilling action. The following account of the labors of a U.S. convoy vessel (given with a fictitious name) tells something of how that success has been...
...Niebuhr, naval attache of the German Embassy. "My cousin is on the Gneisenau" he would say, and the clever captain would know he was talking to an agent with valuable information. When the merchant ships put to sea they ran into Nazi U-boats with uncanny regularity. Many were sunk. Napp received 400 pesos a month and expense money, and he earned his pay many times over...
...Tokyo said that 40 warships in all had been sunk, that 22 had been damaged. This was a far cry from the U.S. claim that 129 had been sunk, and a curious reversal of the usual ratio between sunk and damaged naval vessels. But the Japanese, significantly, did not detail their losses in cruisers, the category in which their losses have hurt the most...
...other Oriental hot spots. Before her death in the service of her country, announced last week, the U.S. Army transport President Coolidge had probably carried more tens of thousands of soldiers to Pacific ports than any other vessel. The Navy announced only that she had hit a mine and sunk. Since there were only four casualties out of 4,000 troops aboard, it seemed likely that the Coolidge had struck a mine near a friendly shore...