Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ships, Allied Fortresses, Liberators, Hudsons, Catalinas, Venturas, Sunderlands, fought off the attackers. One British pilot said that the glider bombs looked like small monoplanes and performed "most unusual acrobatics." But they were ineffective: at the battle's end, only two Allied ships had been damaged, none had been sunk. The attackers had lost one submarine, another probably destroyed, several aircraft shot down or badly damaged...
Guadalcanal to Tarawa. Under Turner's immediate command, the new amphibious forces invaded Guadalcanal. Screening warships, unaccustomed to this new kind of mission, were caught napping by Jap cruisers. In a few agonizing hours on a rainy August night, four Allied cruisers were sunk. Naked transports carrying precious supplies brought thousands of miles were hastily withdrawn. For three months the Marines fought without substantial supplies or reinforcements and cursed the Navy...
Melodramatically salvation heaves in sight. A German supply ship and an Allied ship stage a shelling duel. The German ship is sunk...
...that was not the day. The firing had started when British watchers discovered a convoy of German ships trying to ghost northward through the English Channel, hugging the coast at Cape Gris-Nez. Two hundred shells were fired. One large enemy merchant vessel was sunk, another was hard hit. From this German willingness to risk ships in the Channel shooting gallery, Allied commanders judged that the steady air pounding of French railroads and communications must be snarling normal overland supply lines behind the Invasion Coast...
...first time since 1932, House Democrats no longer had a numerical majority. With the resignation of New York's Joseph Gavagan, House Democratic strength had sunk to 217. (Because of vacancies and minor party members, Democrats still have a 217-to-208 plurality over Republicans.) But Speaker Sam Rayburn had few illusions about his ability to control his decimated flock. It is an election year, he said, and there will be a lot of talk in Congress. The best he could hope for was that it will be good talk...