Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into the office strode handsome, hefty Captain John L. McCrea, the President's Naval aide. He handed the President a sheaf of papers. Franklin Roosevelt read the news: the great Battle of the Coral Sea had begun; the U.S. Navy had already sunk seven Japanese warships...
...week's end their doubts were gone. The Navy and the Army Air Forces had sunk or disabled 21 ships. U.S. losses were light; the Jap was in retreat. The Jap might be back, might win another battle, but this time...
...aircraft hacking at the enemy every step of the way back to the questionable shelter of the islands trailing off the east coast of New Guinea. When the Jap finally got there, only he could count his losses accurately. But by conservative U.S. count he had lost 21 ships, sunk or disabled. And he had unquestionably taken a beating-the first serious defeat of his headlong career through the South Pacific...
...crisis for Leningrad was pointed to by Moscow's announcement last week that a Nazi battleship* and a 9,000-ton transport had been sunk by the Red Banner Baltic Fleet. Perhaps all-out R.A.F. attacks on Lübeck and Rostock, German Baltic supply bases, indicated the same thing...
...French acknowledged the loss of four warships, a submarine and a mine-laying sloop sunk when they attacked British transports, and two cruisers "missing...