Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Good Friday, the Navy Department had a somber message to interpose: three more U.S. warships had been sunk in the month-old battle off Java (see p. 25). On Easter Sunday the Christian nation went heavily to its churches, celebrated the resurrection of Jesus, who had died to save the world. Death and the war, whatever its right name might be, hung heavy over the country...
...Navy announced that 28 Axis subs had been sunk and that 21 of them had gone down in the Atlantic. Knocking out such a fleet and its highly trained crews was a good performance. Yet it was not enough...
...Allied ships were being sunk at a disastrous rate, probably equal to the rate at which new ones were being commissioned (but far short of the rate the U.S. should reach this summer). Submarines had to be sunk faster than Adolf Hitler could turn them out, complete with trained crews...
...dashing attempt of the U.S. Navy to turn the tide in the Battle of Java became public property at last. The U.S.S. Langley, hulking old aircraft tender, was bombed and sunk Feb. 27. She was knocked out by Japanese land-based bombers as she approached Java with a cargo of U.S. fighting planes that might have won the battle and preserved the key of the Indies for the Allies. More than half of the survivors who were picked up by destroyers and transferred to the naval oiler Pecos, were lost two days later when the oiler was sunk...
Again a destroyer picked up what was left of the two crews. It took them to Australia. There, at Darwin, the Jap had sunk the destroyer Peary. Her crew had fought her to the last, while the water rose around them, never left her until her deck was awash...