Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington called the naval damage "serious." admitted at least one "old" battleship and a destroyer had been sunk, other ships of war damaged at base. Meanwhile Japan took to the radio to boast that the U.S. Navy had suffered an "annihilating blow." Crowed the Japs: "With the two battleships [sunk], and two other capital ships and four large cruisers heavily damaged by Japanese bombing attacks on Hawaii, the U.S. Pacific Fleet has now only two battleships, six 10,000-ton cruisers, and only one aircraft carrier...
...other German raiders sunk...
...Norwegian sea captain (said the Overseas News Agency last week) testified before a German naval court in Norway that his ship had been stopped and sunk by a British submarine hard by the coast of Norway...
...read about your mind's acting like a movie before you kick off was straight stuff. It wasn't the state or the President or God or anything as tangible as that he was thinking of. It was just something about that ship down there. It had to be sunk. It and a hundred more like it. If it, and they, weren't destroyed, and if their men could sacrifice themselves to sink our boats, we were through. If we lost the war, life wouldn't be worth much. Not for anyone. Eating and sleeping and Mozart and necking...
...Japanese cruiser and a destroyer were sunk by air action by the American Marine garrison furiously defending Wake Island, which was still under attack...