Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said Albuquerque's Dr. V. H. Spensley, a dentist whose son died in a Jap prison camp: "I can't understand why such information should be brought out now . . . except to sell bonds. For that purpose it's absolutely rotten. If the morality of America has sunk so low it required this kind of propaganda to sell bonds, we wonder what the boys are fighting...
Submarines of Britain's Royal Navy have sunk more than 1,250,000 tons of Axis shipping in the Mediterranean alone since war began. As commander of His Majesty's Submarine Safari, and other submarines, handsome, whimsical, young (29) Lieut. Richard Barklie Lakin, D.S.O., D.S.C., R.N., has had his share of kills. In his words, this is part of his story as he told it in New York City last week...
...hell, and I am not going to stay in submarines any more. I just can't take it." I looked around. The men were not very happy, and were wetting their lips a bit. Well, when we got back in harbor, we felt pretty good because we had sunk five ships of 20,000 total tonnage. We had a hell of a blind and plenty of hooch. After that, I was ready for the next patrol...
...totaling about 25,000 tons. He took three prisonsers - two Germans and a French-trained dog he decided to call Pétain. All three came off the Sainte Marguérite II, which Lieut. Lakin described as "built in Dublin, sold to the French, seized by the Germans, sunk by me." Once Lieut. Lakin was under continuous attack by two destroyers for 38 hours...
...before the sleepy Italians realized somebody was shooting at them. They didn't do very much except fire some star shells seven miles out to sea. As we slid out they got a light on us. A couple of shells fell close. Next day they claimed to have sunk...