Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese were converging on central Java from east and west, two Dutch cruisers ran straight into an enemy fleet. Both cruisers sank, apparently torpedoed. Two Allied destroyers went down; since Batavia did not say they were Dutch, they were probably U.S. ships. Tokyo boasted that the Japanese had sunk eleven Allied warships, but clouded its claims by ignoring known Japanese losses...
When the Japanese attacked in December, prescient Admiral Helfrich flung up his arms and exclaimed: "There you have it! We could have sunk their transports." His fleet was already at sea, and 24 hours after the first Jap attacks, his submarines sank four enemy transports off Malaya. His Navy's bag in the first 54 days of war: 54 Jap ships...
Secretary of the Navy Knox announced that in 54 days (Jan. 1-Feb. 23) Nazi submarines attacked 114 Allied ships in the Atlantic; the rate of attack in the western Atlantic was going up. In the same costly days only three U-boats were announced sunk, four probably damaged...
...from the threat of surface raiders, the battle of the Atlantic was going badly. German torpedoes sent to the bottom a Canadian corvette and a Free French corvette, damaged a U.S. Coast Guard cutter so severely that it turned over while being towed to port and had to be sunk. Storm and high seas wrecked a U.S. destroyer and supply ship off Newfoundland (see p. 24). Tankers in U.S. coastal waters took a beating (see col. 2). The Germans claimed that seven ships totaling 52,000 tons had been destroyed in a running attack on one convoy -a claim brutally...
After a close first half, in which 19 personal fouls were called by the officials, the Crimson squad began to show its heels to the visitors during the second period and kept a comfortable lead to the end of the game. Hugh Hyde, who tallied 18 points altogether, sunk 14 of his total in this period to clinch the victory...