Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Total U.S. casualties on Okinawa have reached 23,188, of whom 3,877 are dead and 2,611 missing. At sea at least 25 ships, most of them light units, have been sunk; many more, including some major units, have been damaged. "We will take our time," said the Tenth's Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., "and kill the Japanese gradually." Meanwhile the ship-plane battle went on. Admiral Nimitz's communique announced that a major warship had been damaged during an air attack...
...burned-out tanks, smashed guns, tramcars riddled with holes, half-demolished trenches, heaps of spent cartridge shells, fresh graves, corpses still awaiting burial, masses of white flags, crowds of glum and hungry inhabitants lie before our eyes. . . . On Friedrichstrasse ... it is impossible to pass on foot. . . . The pavement has sunk into the ground. The ceiling of the subway which runs just below the street has caved in. ... The Tiergarten is burning; trees crack and writhe in flames. The Reichstag is smoking. . . . The new Imperial Chancellery, Hitler's Berlin residence, is also burning. The windows are blocked with heaps...
...ships had paid a price. Five light units were lost, one other damaged. ("Light unit" presumably meant a destroyer or smaller vessel.) Earlier in the week two light units had been sent down by Kamikaze attack. All told, 24 U.S. vessels have been sunk since the start of the campaign seven weeks...
...Sunk, then, is Europe's sagest head...
...Buchenwald and the other memorials of Nazi infamy reveal the depths to which humanity can sink, and has sunk, in these frightful years...