Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz posted the score for a month of his task forces' sweeps against the Japanese homeland and the Ryukyus invasion campaign. The enemy losses were staggering: more than 100 warships and auxiliary vessels sunk, 2,569 planes destroyed...
...which reconnaissance pilots called "a dead city" -and smashed Potsdam, cradle of the German army. The British also attacked German ports and shipping off the north coast. After a raid on Kiel, where the flyers saw a tremendous explosion, reconnaissance photographs showed the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer, capsized and sunk in the inner basin...
...told the U.S. public what the U.S. press had dutifully refrained from telling: that the Japanese have organized a suicide corps of flyers whose mission is to crash-dive their explosives-laden aircraft into ships; that this Kamikaze (Divine Tempest) Corps has damaged some major U.S. fleet units and sunk some smaller ships...
...Navy still would not permit itemization of losses and damage, but said that no fast carrier, battleship or cruiser had been sunk by Kamikaze planes. Failing to knock out major vessels, the enemy had turned his tactic against more vulnerable escort carriers, destroyers, transports and auxiliary vessels. The net effect on U.S. fleet operations has been negligible, the cost in enemy aircraft and pilots high...
...green antiaircraft puffs into the skies. The Yamato's 16-inch guns roared. But the attack was relentless. The battleship, smashed by eight torpedoes and eight 1,000-lb. armor-piercing bombs, went down in a roaring explosion. The two cruisers and three of the destroyers were sunk, the six remaining destroyers heavily damaged...