Word: cargoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their chief objectives were Miyako and Okinawa Islands, and the area was thick with bombers' targets. The planes sank an escort-type destroyer, four small submarines, 14 cargo ships, 25 smaller ships, 43 other vessels. Apparently the Mitscher-men had surprised the enemy: they destroyed 59 planes on the ground, shot 23 more...
...every 100 men trained by the Air Forces were killed before their student days were over. But the A.A.F. did not give the percentage of fatalities in the U.S. which occurred after training, in routine operations such as ferrying planes and transporting cargo and personnel-operational accidents which probably accounted for more than half the 11,000 fatalities...
After two years of fist-shaking and name-calling in lieu of clarity of purpose, Secretary of State Cordell Hull last week left off shuffling papers and got around to applying the second* faltering economic sanction against Argentina: he barred U.S.-flag ships from calling at Argentine for northbound cargo...
...afternoon in August the ship had arrived at the Naval ammunition depot on Mare Island to take on a cargo of explosives. A division of loaders (105 men)-all of whom had been at Port Chicago-were mustered for the job. They fell in, shuffled a few steps, stopped. All but eleven of them refused to work...
...southern Philippines, knocked out 501 of the Jap's fast-disappearing planes-more even than the 420 wiped out in the Battle of the Philippine Sea last June. As spice for this performance, Halsey's flyers damaged or sank all of 173 ships ranging from big cargo carriers to light coastal vessels. Then the double blow struck...