Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battles as the Battle of Macassar Strait, only the Japanese know how badly they have been hurt. But the U.S. Navy, with a fair idea of what it had done, knew enough last week to publish a summary of Japanese ships that it was positive it had sunk or knocked...
Combined with the Army Air Force's list, also compiled with an eye to history, it made a fat total: 91 ships definitely sunk, 95 more hit (and listed scrupulously as "sunk or probably sunk," "possibly sunk," "believed sunk," "damaged...
...prize catch was one battleship (the Haruna) sunk by Captain Colin Kelly off Luzon, and a fair swap for the sinking of the one battleship (Arizona) irrevocably lost at Pearl Harbor. Other Japanese warships also sunk: one carrier, four cruisers, ten destroyers, seven submarines. Noncombatant ships (freighters, tankers, etc.) known sunk...
Landlubbers may wonder what a battleship band does when it is not tootling and drumming. The Navy told them last week. The 21 men in the band of the Arizona, sunk at Pearl Harbor, went down with the ship. They died at their battle stations in one of the most dangerous spots on a warship-passing ammunition in the clangorous bowels of the turrets...
...worthy descendants of the "Cinderella" boats of World War I, the sub chasers who were not invited to the ball, but who proved to be the belles when they arrived. (Of the 456 sub chasers built in the U.S. in the last war, not a single one was sunk by enemy submarines, whereas the Cinderellas had the highest record of sub sinkings of any surface craft...