Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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American submarines sank three more enemy ships in Japanese waters, the Navy Department announced Monday, bringing to 198 the Japanese vessels sunk, probably sunk, or damaged since Pearl Harbor in America's relentless attack on enemy supply lines...
...Italians claimed that they sank a British cruiser, damaged 19 ships in all. Berlin said that German dive-bombers had sunk three merchant ships and damaged three others. Correspondents Grover and Mowrer confirmed the British reports that one supply ship was sunk, that a cruiser and three destroyers were hit but made port. Able Admiral Vian had earned the thanks of Winston Churchill, the praise of his captains. Said one of them: "Our Admiral has fought one of the most brilliant actions against greatly superior forces ever successfully brought...
...fire she belched angrily from her four thin stacks, stepped up her speed to 20 knots. Her 4-in. deck guns were quick to answer the shells that screamed at her from every side. Before her explosive-laden bow piled into the dock gates of St.-Nazaire, she had sunk a Nazi flak* ship, stung many a shore battery with the last broadsides she would ever fire...
There was no doubt that the raid was costly. Dead were well over a hundred valuable Commando-fighters, sunk (according to German claims) were 13 British motor gunboats and torpedo ships. But the British were well satisfied. On their farthest Commando raid of the war, they had, they were confident, knocked out the only Atlantic port big enough to drydock the battleship Tirpitz, the dock that had once held the once-mighty Normandie, the busiest pen for Nazi subs. The raid was soothing to Britain's invasion boosters, too. To many of them it seemed that the British brass...
...week began, British submarines claimed to have sunk eleven Axis ships attempting to by-pass Malta with reinforcements for Libya. The Italian Navy claimed that a major sea battle was raging, with a Malta-bound convoy as the prize...