Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long-distance German guns were indeed almost ready to rain ten V-3 rocket shells a minute on the British capital. At Mimoyecques, near Calais (95 miles from London), Allied troops found 50 smoothbore gun barrels, each 400 feet long, sunk 350 feet into chalk hills. The installation was partly protected by 18-ft. concrete roofs, impervious to bombs. But steady air attack had slowed the Todt Organization's construction of the site until it was too late. Also found were seven other elaborate installations on the French coast. At least one was for another secret weapon, still...
...surrendered off Cape May. N.J., claiming to have sunk 16 ships in its last eight weeks at sea. Other captives were awaited along the U.S. seaboard. Meanwhile convoying will be continued in the Atlantic until the last of the wolf pack has been accounted...
...Germany did end the war with a powerful fleet of U-boats, and they fought to the end. In March and April, several U.S. ships were sunk or damaged in the western Atlantic, with a loss of some 100 lives...
Last week Reuters reported from London that on May 7-several hours after the Nazi surrender at Reims-a British and a Norwegian ship were sunk out of a convoy off the northeast British coast. Two British lives were lost...
...Hirohito's earliest mentors were the war lords who had made modern Japan a power-stern General Maresuke Nogi, the victor of Port Arthur, and Admiral Heihatiro Togo, who, at Tsushima, had sunk most of Russia's feckless fleet in one of history's decisive naval battles...