Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Regardless of the enemy design," said the voice from Tokyo, "the war situation has increased with unprecedented seriousness-nay, furiousness." Some examples: > Off the China coast Claire Chennault's Fourteenth U.S. Air Force got its biggest weekly bag of the war: 27,000 tons of Jap shipping definitely sunk. > Against "negligible" resistance Admiral William F. Halsey's amphibious troops took the Green (Nissan) Islands between Bougainville and New Ireland, cut off an estimated 22,000 Japs in the Northern Solomons, ended the Solomons campaign. > Rabaul declined further as an effective Jap base as U.S. and Australian flyers sank...
...night, a portentous hush settled on the German radio. Then came a flourish of trumpets, followed by the announcer's voice, vibrant with pride and triumph: "The Führer's Headquarters. The German High Command announces: A sub marine commanded by Senior Lieutenant von Billow has sunk in the middle of the North Atlantic the American aircraft carrier Ranger, employed to guard Atlantic convoy routes. The Führer has awarded the Oak Leaves to the Knight's Cross [of the Iron Cross] to Lieutenant von Bülow, the 234th member of the German armed...
...another enemy cargo boat. Before the Omaha and escorting destroyer Jouett could overtake her, the quarry blew herself up. Next day the sea drama was repeated; still another blockade-runner went to the bottom. The U.S. ships rescued most of the crewmen, presently learned that the vessels they had sunk were the German freighters Rio Grande, Burgenland and Weserland. One unexpected trophy of the chase was several hundred tons of baled rubber, blown free of the ships and floating...
Since three ships went to the bottom, another German blockade-runner, of the same general type and cargo, probably slipped through. Lord Selborne, Britain's Minister of Economic Warfare, gave a hardheaded estimate that 75% of the German blockade-runners were sunk last year. That any get through at all, in this day of patrol planes and radio nets, is a proof of an old seaman's saw: the seas are vast...
Nothing new in classic blockade-running has been developed. The three ships sunk by U.S. craft were typical runners. Medium-sized freighters (about 7,000 tons) with better-than-average speed (15 knots up) work out best. They rely on luck and bad weather, pick the foggiest of nights to leave Europe...