Word: sinkings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vice Admiral C. E. L. Helfrich's orders to the Dutchmen and the gentle, excited Indonesians on his own ships, to the hard young men on the U.S. ships, said as much. His orders were to attack the oncoming, superior enemy at all costs, to kill Japs and sink Jap ships regardless of the risk to Allied lives and outnumbered Allied ships. If the Jap could not now be stopped at sea, almost within gunshot of the Java coast, at least he could be made...
...words scarcely had a chance to sink into the awareness of the U.S. public when the West Coast, on guard and tense along 3,250 miles of shore, received the first attack on continental U.S. soil. A submarine emerged from the sea about seven miles north of Santa Barbara, Calif., and for 20 minutes lobbed shells at an oil refinery. First reports: little damage; no one was injured; no fires were started; most of the 25 shells fired exploded in a field; frightening horses; one went over Highway 101, burst in the foothills. The attack began...
LONDON--A British submarine has torpedoed the German cruiser Prinz Eugene, and the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau lie severely damaged at North Sea Ports, but the Nazis are still building submarines faster than the Allies can sink them, First Lord of the Admiralty A. V. Alexander told the House of Commons today...
...other transport vehicle on land or sea,-which means you can get along with fewer of them. Warner figures that we can add 15,000 stops to the existing 40 (which would bring 90 per cent of the population within an hour's drive of an airport), and sink a million dollars into passenger planes to handle the commercial business with Europe, Asia, South America, and within the states. But even so, that would absorb only 5 per cent of the aircraft industry that will exist...
Savemini, who fought Italian Fascism from the days of its earliest activities down to the 1922 march on Rome, asserted that the royal family had cast its lot completely with the totalitarian forces. "They sink or swim together," he asserted...