Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most the treasure was worth only $1,900, but it was the King's trove and Snow was jubilant. Beaming at his find, he planned to get a radar set, go hunting storied New England hulks (among them the British Privateer Mary Ann, sunk off Chatham with $1,000,000 in bullion) which have hitherto evaded unscientific treasure seekers...
Everybody knew that the Navy had taken a terrible beating during the Okinawa battle, but few realized how severe the beating was until the figures were released last week: 30 ships sunk,* 223 damaged. Never before had any navy of any nation been hit as often in a single operation...
...ships larger than destroyers were sunk, but twelve cans went to the bottom, 67 others were damaged. Ten battleships, eight big carriers, two light carriers and three escort carriers were hit. And the casualties in men-4,907 killed and missing, 4,824 wounded-were about one-seventh of the Navy's total for the entire...
...Also sunk: three Victory ammunition ships...
During the early, tense days of World War II, when the U.S. people had little to hearten them, they eagerly grasped at two legends: 1) Captain Colin Kelly had sunk the Jap battleship Haruna by plunging his Flying Fortress "almost into the mouths of flaming Japanese guns"; 2) Major James P. S. Devereux, when asked if his handful of embattled Wake Island marines needed help, radioed: "Send us more Japs...