Word: sinkful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days out of every three, the Angry had been at sea. To bigger ships, to men in situations more readily recognizable as heroic, had gone the headlines and the medals. The Angry's first task was to get each supply-chocked freighter through to safety; its second, to sink U-boats...
...them to fall into alien hands. So long as I was in command, the order stood and was renewed from time to time. The current Laval government opposed that order. Therefore it was probably the Admiral [Jean de Laborde] commanding the Fleet at Toulon who issued the order to sink the ships." Admiral Darlan agreed with British authorities (TIME, Dec. 14) that the scuttling had immobilized most of the Toulon fleet...
Distinguished Flying Cross (airmen only). Army, 345; Navy, 377; Marines, 34. Sample case: Ensign Harry Bonaparte Gibbs. As a combat pilot, in two successive days' fighting in the Coral Sea Battle, he shot down a Jap plane and helped sink or damage a Jap carrier...
...jets de Guerre. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art opened a "Useful Objects in Wartime" exhibit. Featured: baking pans made of paper, a cornhusk doormat, an open-top hamper-cart for the free wheeling of groceries, a plastic sink stopper, a felt eyeglass case...
...Parachute Battalion marched 115 miles through Georgia last week in three days. The battalion slogged through fog, rain, sleet and hail, over soggy fields and concrete highways. They carried full equipment, including machine guns. Some fell out with sore feet. Even they got congratulations from their commander, Colonel Robert Sink. Said he: "When you fell, you fell face forward...