Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...part which the Army has played, and is still playing, in breaking the back of the U-boat campaign. In 13 battles which the Army saw fit to reveal, the Army's cautious claims (Isley's attack was listed as "probable damage") were five subs sunk, five damaged, three chased away from nearby shipping...
...hour warplane. But if the pilots did indeed sink a transport of the "Conte di Savoia class," then it must have been either the 49,000-ton Savoia herself or her companion (but not sister) ship, the 51,000-ton Rex. Either would be the biggest merchant vessel sunk by military action during...
...lesser positions in such jungle islands as Gizo. Vella Lavella was important as bait. The Jap bit. He tried almost immediately to land reinforcements on Vella Lavella and came down in 20-to-30 troop-carrying barges escorted by four destroyers. U.S. warships struck. One Jap destroyer was probably sunk, another damaged and a third hit. Most of the barges were sunk. Although an estimated 300 Japs managed to get ashore, some 1,000 perished...
...offensive operations against Axis submarines continue to progress most favorably in all areas. . . . During May, June and July we have sunk at sea a total of over 90 U-boats...
...first six months of 1943 the number of ships sunk per U-boat operating was only half that in the last six months of 1942 and only a quarter that in the first half of 1942. . . . During 1943 new ships completed by the Allies exceed all sinkings from all causes by upward of 3,000,000 tons...