Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ships. Why the hell shouldn't she have? . . . Masters of the Argentine vessels carried safe-conduct papers issued by the German Navy. . . . Brazilian ships plied the same waters carrying critical war materials and 32 of the best ships flying the Brazilian flag were sent to the bottom...
...enlisted men wearing the dolphin insignia, Nimitz announced their total accomplishment in the war against Japan: 1,119 ships sunk, aggregating 4,500,000 tons-more than half the ocean-going tonnage with which Japan started the war. In the last year, 2,000,000 tons went to the bottom...
...service flag. The flag was official, having received the approval of Major General James A. Ulio, Adjutant General. At the top it carried a gold star with the number 6 (for war dead); below it a blue star with the number 396 (for employes in service); at the bottom the eagle emblem of the honorably discharged, with the number 28 (for veterans who have been employed or re-employed by the Bulletin...
...after Admiral Doenitz ordered his U-boats to cease hostilities-a convoy bound for Boston battled with a wolf pack and lost the collier Black Point, with twelve dead. One sub which dived to the bottom, 130 feet down, was destroyed by depth bombs...
...soon as Doss had finished his reading, the attack began. The assault force gained the top of the escarpment, then was driven back by heavy Jap mortar fire. When the company reassembled at the bottom of the hill, Doss was missing...