Word: sunk
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Possibly sunk were a battleship, five cruisers and seven destroyers...
Mitscher's Avengers. It was time for the first strike. Mitscher sent off powerful forces of Hellcats, Avengers and Hell-divers against both Jap fleets. In the central force, they damaged a battleship and a cruiser, both of which may have sunk. A light cruiser was torpedoed; it capsized and sank. Three battleships and three heavy cruisers absorbed both bombs and torpedoes, but pressed...
...landings seem to have come off well," Walker reported. "The beach where I am was perforated by both mortar and artillery fire at landing. Two boats hit, one sunk. Casualties relatively light. Loyal Filipinos helping us from the first moment of landing...
...surprise as he read: "Powerful Allied naval forces have attacked a portion of the Japanese fleet lying at anchor near the entrance to Fusan Harbor on the southeast coast of Korea . . . 26 of approximately 80 ships . . . were set afire . . . more than 70 Japanese vessels, including warships and transports, were . . . sunk...
...Leroy ("Tex") Harris, escorting the bombers over Davao Gulf, reported by radio that they had spotted a Jap destroyer. Tex radioed blithely: "Wait about five minutes and I'll tell you where it was-repeat was." Less than five minutes later the bombers had sunk the destroyer...