Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week Patton's forward drive had been somewhat slowed, either by increased resistance (Germans were reported streaming westward to meet his thrusts) or by the demands of supplying his tanks. Patton's armor had sunk the deepest wedge into Germany; his spearheads were only 175 miles from the Russians and the Germans were jumpy over any Patton move. One might be the payoff stroke that would cut Germany in two at the waist...
...Down. Some of the Jap flyers managed to get down to their targets; three U.S. destroyers were hit and sunk. But the Japs had sent upward of 500 planes into action; of these, 245 were intercepted and destroyed on their way to Okinawa, and 116 were shot down at Okinawa...
...thrust past the huge road blocks, rows of logs sunk deep in the road with earth piled in between, where the Germans had hastily improvised defenses. Around these lie the old familiar signs of another lost German battle, the scattered helmets, the ripped off pants legs and coat arms where wounds were dressed, the golden sprinkles of ammunition, the smashed ma chine guns and the still smoldering trucks overturned in the ditches...
...biographer, Catherine Drinker Bowen (Yankee from Olympus). The letter was written when the Justice was old, alone and with "no one to call him by his first name," to students who wanted to celebrate his goth birthday: "On the eighth of March, 1862 . . . the sloop Cumberland was sunk by the Merrimac, off Newport News. The vessel went down with her flag flying-and when a little later my regiment arrived . . . I saw the flag still flying above the waters. . . . It was a lifelong text for a young man. Fight to the end and go down with your flag...
...Mitscher's birdmen found good hunting at Kure and Kobe on the Inland Sea. In one day they damaged one or two battleships; two or three larger carriers, two medium carriers and two escort carriers; two cruisers and a dozen smaller craft. Six small freighters were definitely sunk...