Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...airmen strove to smash, scatter and delay the assembling Japanese convoys and air fleets before they could gather their full strength for assault. A Navy communiqué from Washington reported a great victory by U.S. and Australian naval airmen (who probably flew PBY patrol bombers). Two heavy cruisers were sunk, and the attacking airmen thought, with varying degrees of certainty, that they had also sunk a light cruiser, three destroyers, five troop-jammed transports, a gunboat and a minesweeper. They damaged a fourth cruiser, a fourth destroyer, six transports, an aircraft tender and a gunboat.* In a later attack...
Tokyo said that around Surabaya, The Netherlands' fine secondary base on Java, 150 mines had been swept to open the way inside to Japanese naval units. Domei said that plans were already laid for salvaging 53 Allied ships sunk or beached near by. Even discounting Japanese claims. Allied commanders in Australia knew that Surabaya would soon be turned against them...
...lying in ambush, crept up within 50 yards before the German crew woke up. The Guillemot sent a 4-in. shell into the E-boat's water line and hosed its deck with machine-gun bullets. "It is considered," said the Admiralty communiqué, "that this boat was sunk...
Final score: at least six German speedboats bagged; one British destroyer sunk...
...total Allied naval strength available in the combat area, it was a worse disaster than Pearl Harbor. Bleakest fact of all: the known Japanese losses in no way compensated for the Allied losses. The Navy carefully qualified its report that one Japanese cruiser and one destroyer were probably sunk, two other cruisers and three destroyers may have been put out of action. At best, the score was 13 to 7, the wrong way, in the battle of Java...