Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rice paddies and cotton fields, had come to the city to celebrate the triumphant arrival of the Japanese Imperial Fleet. Henchmen of mysterious, begoggled Toyojito Sugai handed them Japanese flags, pictures of the Emperor and news bulletins which announced: "Americans defeated in 15-minute naval battle; 400 U.S. ships sunk...
...Fleet. War, which scattered the international whaling fleet, caught the U.S. short of sperm oil, badly needed for lubricating delicate submarine and aviation instruments. Most of the British and Norwegian whalers were converted into tankers and sunk or captured. But the Thorshammer and the Sir James Clark Ross managed to sneak past the Nazis, arrived in U.S. ports. They promptly went to work to keep the U.S. supplied with sperm...
...many U.S. warships had World War II cost? Last week the Navv told. Beginning with the destroyer Reuben James, sunk on Atlantic patrol by a U-boat five weeks before Pearl Harbor, and ending with the submarine Bullhead, which disappeared in the Java Sea just as Japan quit, the total was 701. The list included 157 first-line combat ships, plus 544 supporting ships and auxiliaries ranging from troopships to 15-ton yard craft...
...list contained no major surprises: all but the small vessels had been identified before hostilities ended. One minor surprise: the minesweeper Crow was sunk in Puget Sound in 1943 by "air attack" -a nonexplosive torpedo dropped by a U.S. training bomber sent the 97-ton craft to the bottom...
...Western Pacific fleet was annihilated under command of a Dutch admiral, while the principal squadron of three American and two Australian heavy cruisers, to protect the landing at Guadalcanal, was surprised and sunk under the British Admiral Crutchley...