Word: sunk
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...score it claimed 61 sure kills (a record) to only 16 British planes lost. The Admiralty said only two of the convoyed ships were lost by bombing, in addition to the three torpedoed. Germany's claim for all seas that day (probably unreliable*) was 28 ships sunk or struck, 49 British planes shot down, twelve German planes lost. German pilots said they wrecked Dover's balloon barrage...
...Catholics against another's. Typical last week was Arthur Cardinal Kinsley, Catholic leader in Britain. His Eminence announced that he would give every British Catholic soldier, sailor and aviator (2,250,000 in all) a personally blessed crucifix of bakelite (to save metal) with the crucified figure "sunk into the cross so that it can't catch in the wearer's uniform." Then Cardinal Kinsley went on the air to preach a holy war against the Nazis...
When the Tigers had finished with them, the Yankees had lost two games, had dropped to fifth place-with the Chicago White Sox as well as the Red Sox, Indians and Tigers in front of them. For the first time in ten years a Yankee team had sunk to the second division with only two months to go (last year they led the league by nine games...
...weeks old was the hitherto censored story of the 16,243-ton Cunarder Lancastria. She was sunk in mid-June off the French harbor of Saint-Nazaire just after embarking 5,000 British troops and a sprinkling of refugee women & children for evacuation to England. Nine Stukas dived on her, three at a time. The first two waves missed. The third connected, but none of the three planes came out of its dive. All crashed into the sea. One bomb went down the Lancastrians funnel. The liner heeled over, trapping hundreds of victims below decks. The water was filled with...
Italy laughed off the Colleoni''?, loss by claiming to have sunk a British submarine in the eastern Mediterranean last week, a 15,000-ton British supply ship bound for Malta, and to have bombed out the Malta torpedo factory. Italy boasted: "Great Britain's naval domination of the Mediterranean has been replaced by Italian air supremacy in this sphere." Meantime, British communiques clarified what happened last fortnight south of Crete where Italian airmen claimed they sank a British cruiser on July 8. The cruiser was the Gloucester (9,300 tons) and her commander, Captain Frederick Rodney Garside...