Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shaking $12,500,000,000 will not long remain a record. Cooking on the Congressional stove is a bill giving the Navy $26,500,000,000 (72 Panama Canals) in appropriations and authorizations. This sum will not only cover the cost of repairing and replacing the ships battered and sunk at Pearl Harbor, but add 1,799 assorted craft and some 25,000 planes to the Fleet. It will also serve to make progress payments on about 1,000,000 tons of ships already building...
...Norfolk, Va., Rear Admiral Manley H. Simons told newsmen that Navy wives have received mysterious telephone calls, telling them that their husbands' bodies were on the way home from ships which had been torpedoed and sunk. Such calls, said Admiral Simons, came from enemy agents hoping to learn where U.S. ships are stationed. He advised officers' wives to pay no attention, hang up immediately...
...results ("many enemy fleet auxiliaries were sunk, beached or otherwise damaged . . . many enemy airplanes were destroyed . . . installations on shore were hit hard. . . .") were not as spectacular as at Pearl Harbor, the technique of attack was more so. This was not just a carrier hit-&-run. Here, besides hitting the defender from the air, the attacker closed with his surface ships and shelled the enemy. And he did it without losing any ships, unlike the Japanese in similar attacks on Wake...
...yielded to this vehement temptation [to open a second front]! Every ton of our shipping, every flotilla, every airplane, the whole strength of our Army would have been committed and fighting for life, and these troubles of the Far East and of the Middle East might have sunk into insignificance compared with the question of another and far worse Dunkirk...
...Crete and during the first battle of Libya, there was singularly little coordination of command be tween air, army and naval forces. More recently, in the Far East, the British lack of unified command was demonstrated when the Prince of Wales and the Repulse, cruising without air cover, were sunk with terrifying dispatch...