Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...force they outweighed the British but they showed little stomach for battle. After a running fight, in which the cruisers scored several hits, the Germans split into three sections and fled. The British picked out one group of four, standing northward, and ran out the chase until three were sunk and the fourth escaped in darkness...
...Scharnhorst was sunk this evening off the North Cape...
...Washington last week, a belated and patently embarrassed tally of the disaster at Bari was finally made (see p. 19). Of the 30-odd ships in the harbor, at least 17 had been sunk-arnonj them five U.S. merchantmen. Some of the supplies had already been landed, but for two or three days the British Eighth Army battling in the north felt the pinch. Casualties totaled 1,000-"including 37 American Naval personnel...
...widest) was full of shipping: sampans, inter-island craft, seagoing merchantmen, tankers, warships. Said a U.S. pilot: "It was a dive bomber's paradise, and we turned it into a Japanese hell." The score after ten minutes of concentrated attack: two light cruisers, one oiler, three cargo transports sunk; one troop transport, three cargo transports damaged; grounded planes and shore installations hard...
Death at Coffin Corner. Happiest hunting was in July, when the Germans struggled to halt the flow of reinforcements for the invasion of Sicily. In nine days at Coffin Corner, twelve attacks on submarines were made, three in a single day. Eight U-boats were sunk or damaged...