Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Front. His account of the war at sea was the brightest yet: ". . . For the four months which ended Sept. 18 no merchant vessel was sunk by enemy action in the North Atlantic...
...dread throughout Japan's annual "Aviation Day" last week. Speakers warned the man-in-the-street of raids to come, pleaded for more and better planes. An Army spokesman said-falsely-that Attu was reduced mainly by air action. Another spokesman confessed that an entire Japanese convoy was sunk in the Bismarck Sea last March by Allied bombers. Earlier, a Home Ministry official had told the people that Japan's matchwood houses are "ideal for defense," for "there is no danger of being buried under bricks during air raids...
...Italian ships caught in Jap harbors and seas. (Probably fewer than 30 were in Far Eastern waters and, by Jap reports, the Italians must have tried to scuttle them all. In Shanghai, the liner Conte Verde and the mine layer Lepanto were successfully sunk; Domei admitted that the Italians had damaged seven warships and twelve merchant ships...
...Aerial torpedoes and bombs sank the Prince of Wales and the battle cruiser Repulse. Torpedoes and bombs did the work at Pearl Harbor. Torpedoes damaged the Bismarck, readied her for the kill by naval shells. The Haruna, supposedly sunk by Captain Colin Kelly, cannot be listed as a certain victim of bombing until postwar investigation clears up the U.S. Navy's doubts...
...communiqué finally issued last week by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet: 80% of little Marcus Island's military installations, seven twin-motored Jap bombers, hangars, fuel and ammunition dumps, shops and living quarters were destroyed; an enemy trawler was sunk. After pounding the 740-acre island for nine hours from the air, losing two fighters and one torpedo plane, the U.S. task force, commanded by air-minded Rear Admiral Charles Alan ("Baldy") Pownall, retired...