Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were still too many sinkings. The Navy announced this week that twelve merchant ships were sunk last week. That brought the announced total of ships sunk in the Atlantic since Pearl Harbor to 150. Furthermore, a destroyer was lost off Florida-the 1920 four-piper Sturtevant...
...British Admiralty announced last week that a British submarine in the Mediterranean had sunk "four more heavily laden Axis supply ships." The British admitted some months ago that for every ship which was sunk, at least one got through. And since Malta has been pounded daily by Axis bombers, the proportion is probably larger. The sinking of four ships suggested that the Axis is determined to keep Field Marshal Erwin Rommel up to attack strength, even though North Africa is already beginning to swelter in its unbearable summer heat...
...available except some vague versions which naturally cannot be taken into account. . . . Whatsoever judgment is made before knowing the result of this investigation would be adventurous. Furthermore, it would be imprudent." The Argentine Foreign Office stiffly suggested that the matter was not serious because: 1) the ship had not sunk; 2) no one was killed. In Washington Attaché Alberto Brunet was ordered to go cast a professionally analytical eye on the damage...
...ships were sunk off the coast of the Carolinas with eleven lives lost. One of them listened helplessly for half an hour to the engines of the approaching submarine, watched it fire two torpedoes in full view of the crew. A rescued seaman from the second ship had to swim two and a half miles, diving under patches of flaming oil, before he was picked up. >Sailors rowing away from a doomed ship saw a Swedish freighter loom up in the night, get caught in a cross-fire of shells from two subs and catch fire. As she tried...
Added to this local preponderance was the enormous value of the Japs' carrier forces. At the war's start, they had at least 20 carriers (one or two have been sunk). Nine were flying decks for land-type planes, eleven were seaplane carriers of limited capacity. Most were small: in six U.S. carriers, the Navy put about as many planes as the Jap had in all 20. But these small carriers gave the Japanese a highly mobile force, designed to concentrate quickly at the points where local superiority meant everything...