Word: cruiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Naval Base. They had captured its means of subsistence, the Peirce and MacRitchie Reservoirs. They had flanked the city and destroyed or seized the airfields. They had cut off its rear by knocking out so many evacuating ships. They claimed to have sunk a light and an auxiliary cruiser, a submarine, two gunboats, a "special vessel" and eight transports, including one of 30,000 tons; to have damaged a light cruiser, a destroyer, two "special vessels," one torpedo boat and ten transports; to have forced the beaching of a Dutch cruiser, a minelayer, a transport...
...Pearl Harbor score was not quite evened, but in four hours of Feb. 1 (Jan. 31, on the U.S. side of the international date line), the Jap's main bases in the mid-Pacific were sorely smashed. His aircraft and shipping losses were high: One light cruiser; one converted aircraft carrier; one destroyer; two submarines; three fleet oil tankers; two naval auxiliaries; 38 airplanes. In addition, the U.S. attackers damaged "and perhaps destroyed" an ancient cruiser, three submarines, four auxiliary vessels...
...little German Fleet-the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, the heavy cruiser Prince Eugen, their destroyers and minesweepers-got proudly through the Channel, 700-odd miles from Brest to their home base in Germany...
Japanese planes dropped their first bombs on Batavia, the capital. Slowly the lines tightened about Java. The Dutch bombed back, claimed the sinking of a Japanese cruiser and a transport. A few U.S. P-40 fighters joined a few U.S. Flying Fortresses in the Indies air. A few hundred more could save Java...
...famed cruiser Augusta, scene of the Roosevelt-Churchill meeting at sea last August, ever becomes a complete casualty, she will leave a good will behind her. The cruiser has drawn up her last will and testament, leaving to the Navy Relief Society money now banked in Brooklyn, which grew out of profits from the ship's store...