Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their newspapers Aussies read of the brighter side. A correspondent who got a look at the movies taken of the battle by the Army Air Forces reported that of 22 Jap ships knocked out by U.S. and Australian bombers, 18 were sunk, including two carriers, two cruisers, nine destroyers...
After the first three days of battle, Radio Tokyo claimed a great victory, hissed excitedly about two U.S. carriers and a battleship sunk, a battleship of the British Warspite class heavily damaged (Britain tersely and immediately replied that no Warspite or other British battlewagon had been sunk or damaged). Then Tokyo began to hedge...
...Time for Rejoicing. The Jap had taken a shattering defeat. The Navy listed his losses: sunk, one aircraft carrier, one heavy cruiser, one light cruiser, two destroyers, one seaplane tender, four gunboats, two submarines, three supply vessels; damaged, a carrier, heavy cruiser, light cruiser, seaplane tender, two merchantmen...
...U.S.S. Marblehead, light cruiser often claimed sunk . . . was bombed to hell and brought out of it by a crew that doesn't know the meaning of the word abandon. Thus the Navy last week began a long delayed tale of heroism about the Battle of Java...
Ships were still being sunk at an unhealthy rate. That they were being sunk in unhealthy places was indicated in a Navy Department announcement late last week. Three medium-sized U.S. vessels had been torpedoed in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, where fast submarines (about 20 knots surfaced) had popped up for the first time. Total of Atlantic sinkings off the Americas for the week...