Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Time turned backward for aging William Randolph Hearst. Once again, as in the days of his beloved Spanish-American War (when Hearst himself dramatically "invaded" Cuba from a chartered steamboat, captured 26 wet, befuddled Spanish sailors whose ship had been sunk in the Battle of Santiago), a Hearst reporter was dashing about, brushing the Army & Navy aside, taking strategically important objectives singlehanded, and revealing all. The reporter: bulky, handsome Clark ("Chang") Lee, 38. In six days, by his own word, Clark Lee had: ¶ Been the first to find "Tokyo Rose" (see RADIO...
Year after year they had vanished into Japan like wanderers sucked into the mud of a fever swamp-the men of Hong Kong, of Bataan and Wake, men of the ships sunk at sea, the planes shot down in combat. Last week they were found-those who were still alive...
Politeness. Thanks to the Jap trick of not reporting many a prisoner, there was the cheering word that men long believed dead had survived. Three hundred men of the cruiser Houston, unreported for the three-and-a-half years since their ship was sunk in Sunda Strait, were discovered alive in Thailand. Vanished heroes came back as it were from the dead: Captain Arthur Wermuth, the "one-man army" of Bataan; Commander Richard Hetherington O'Kane, of the missing submarine Tang; Commander Winfield Scott Cunningham, naval commander at Wake Island...
...Navy (and Washington) failed to inform Short when, "on or about Nov. 25," intelligence sources reported the presence in the Marshall Islands of a large part of the Jap fleet. The Navy failed to inform Short that it had sunk a Jap submarine in outer Pearl Harbor at about 6:30 a.m. on Dec. 7-a sure sign that attack was imminent...
...likened defeat to a natural calamity. Said Premier Prince Higashi-Kuni: "The cause of our defeat was the sudden collapse of our fighting strength." Japanese seemed eager to accept this explanation. Perhaps they would never realize that, before the atomic bomb was dropped, their navy & merchant marine had been sunk, their air force whipped, their army outclassed...