Word: battleships
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Aroused American forces Thursday punctuated declarations of war against Germany and Italy by slamming into the Japanese with devastating effect, sinking a battleship, a cruiser and a destroyer, badly damaging a second battleship and winning control of Philippine shores where Nipponese landing parties were being annihilated...
...Japanese battleship Haruna, with 980 or more officers and men aboard, was bombed, set afire and sunk off Luzon Island by American Army bombers...
...second 29,330-ton Japanese battleship, possibly the Kirisima, was bombed, set afire and badly damaged off the Philippine coast by American naval patrol bombers...
...Vichy had recommissioned the 26,500-ton battleship Dunkerque and made it ready for action. In French North Africa and Dakar, German "technicians" were reported arriving by the score. In Paris, Marcel Déat, ablest spokesman for collaboration, urged open war against General de Gaulle to recover the lost colonies...
Newsmen had long wanted to know how the Secretary explained the fact that an article by him in Collier's last August broke the news that a U.S. observer was aboard the American-built Catalina flying boat that spotted the Nazi battleship Bismarck and called the British fleet to the kill...