Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nine Jap destroyers and light cruisers were sunk, possibly two more. U.S. losses: one ship-the valiant cruiser Helena, which, when sunk, had been firing for six minutes and was on her third and fourth victims. Early this week, another naval force was engaged in the Kula Gulf. In a night battle lasting into the next day, one Jap cruiser, three destroyers were sunk, two more destroyers hit so badly that they probably went down...
...Lady Haw-Haw who broadcasts in Eng lish on Radio Tokyo. One U.S. sub crew which had just sunk two Jap transports' liked her pro gram the night they left for home. Said Tokyo Rose:"You build 'em, we sink...
After the interrogation, the nervous pilot gave details. When he got out of his aircraft a tiny snake had struck at him, sunk its fangs into his boot so deeply that it had to be shaken off and killed. The Axis airmen whom he had fought had worried...
...newsmen could not yet tell how successful Ep Hoyt will be in his new job (or even whether he had one); many a man successful in private business has sunk in bureaucracy's quicksands. But they did know that Ep Hoyt, the up-from-the-ranks editor and publisher of the popular Portland Oregonian is patient, smart, has a rare knack of making and keeping friends. They felt sure that, given half a chance, he could click...
...British "frigates" (somewhat similar to the U.S. Navy's new destroyer escorts) led naval aircraft to another submarine. Attacking in turn, they destroyed the U-boat. Other aircraft, including the first Fortresses mentioned in Coastal Command use, and destroyers then attacked. They may have sunk two more submarines...