Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thanksgiving, the U.S. Fifth Air Force had scraped together enough aircraft to dump 350 tons of bombs on Rabaul, Japan's Southwest Pacific air-sea bastion. The surprised Japs lost 60% of their Rabaul air force-100 planes destroyed on the ground, 51 others damaged, 26 shot down. "Sunk or destroyed" were 119 ships ranging from tiny harbor craft to destroyers...
...Nazi battleship Bismarck after it had sunk H.M.S. Hood; 2) Rudolf Hess's flight to Scotland; 3) Nazi invasion of Russia; 4) Pearl Harbor; 5) Allied invasion of North Africa; 6) the Red Army's defense of Sevastopol; 7) the Dieppe raid; 8) the boarding of the Nazi prison ship Altmark and the rescue of its prisoners; 9) the British Eighth Army's drive from El Alamein; 10) the London fire blitz...
Survivors who reached Canada last week told how the Nazis fell first on the slower of two westbound convoys. Night & day the waddling cargo ships and their escorts were under attack or threat of attack. According to the survivors, at least ten vessels were sunk. One of them was the Canadian destroyer St. Croix, formerly the U.S.S. McCook. The St. Croix was picking up the crews of other luckless vessels when a torpedo hit her. She went down in a small-size holocaust, taking all but one of her 147-man crew...
...other warships were reported sunk. So hot was the going that the two convoys united, then had some 18 escorts for 70 cargo ships. A German communiqué indicated that the subs had deliberately concentrated on escort ships rather than merchantmen...
...adroit emphasis and inflection Franklin Roosevelt managed to turn the words of others into words of his own. And he left no doubt that he thought some U.S. newspapers have sunk to dismal depths. Not since the famed "dunce cap" and "chronic liar" press conferences had he delivered so hard a pitch...