Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these days," said wisecracking young Captain Gerald McAllister of the Fourteenth Air Force, "some correspondent is going to write about the ships sunk and the troops killed by the Fourteenth, and it's going to wind up like this: 'From all of these missions, eight of our air bases are missing...
Their transport sailed to New Zealand, and the men scoured the bookstores in vain. The transport sailed on. was sunk in the Solomons. Machinist's Mate Third Class Lloyd Powers, one of the men on the gun deck, got back to the U.S. last January, made another unsuccessful search for a copy of the book. When he landed briefly in the San Diego Naval Hospital, he pestered Librarian Jeanette Barry to try. She appealed for help in Publishers' Weekly, but still no copy turned...
...Sunk 88 warships (including at least five carriers), probably sunk 25, damaged 89 - total...
...Sunk 282 merchant craft, probably sunk 78, damaged 233 - total...
...Force. Somehow dodging air observation, the Jap landed his reinforcements in four transports at Ormoc, at the south end of the hammerhead of Leyte. Two transports were sunk by P-38 and P-40 fighter-bombers, but only after they had been unloaded. By that time fresh Jap tanks and trucks were moving up the highway from Ormoc to the front. It was still true that the battle for Leyte had been decided, but its length and its total cost were yet to be counted. Nobody believed that the Japs would fail to run true to Bushido form, fight...