Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attack on Oahu a suspicious object was sighted in the prohibited areas off Pearl Harbor at 6:30 a.m. Between 6:33 and 6:45 this object, which was a small submarine, was attacked and sunk by the concerted action of a naval patrol plane and the U.S.S. Ward. A report of this action by the Ward reached the Naval Base watch officer at 7:12 a.m., who notified his Chief of Staff...
...offensive technique known to the Germans as the Rudelsystem, to the Allies as the "wolf pack": a number of submarines attack the center of a convoy, preferably at night, loose torpedoes in every direction, slip away at top surface speed. (In a wolf-pack attack the Reuben James was sunk...
...President Conant's gas, the dreaded "Leweisite," Maj. Johnson spoke extensively. "The gas we sent to Europe, which arrived too late to be used, we did not even take back, but sunk it in the boat we sent it in. It's main danger is in its arsenic ingredient, but it probably won't be used much, assuming that the enemy have it, which is doubtful. It forms a solid when mixed with water, and thus can be fairly easily controlled...
With the argument over the use of the butterfly arm movement scarcely having sunk into obscurity, another controversy concerning the ancient breast stroke has been started by the proposal of Matt Mann, coach of the famous University of Michigan swimming teams, to allow the fishtail log drive in breast-stroke competition...
...that within two hours of the attack every Jap in the islands had been interned; that the Dutch were in action and that one of their submarines had started things going by nosing like a blind mud cat through the shallows on the east coast of Malaya and had sunk four Jap transports. For by now he knew that the Dutch in the Indies were, like his onetime friend Hein ter Poorten, pleasant, poker-faced, indomitable, prepared...