Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese planes had attacked a convoy approaching or standing off Guadalcanal. They had sunk a destroyer, a New Zealand corvette, a tanker, damaged a "fuel-oil boat." The U.S. victory had lasted one day. The Navy Department and the news-hungry press could have afforded to wait for the whole story in one accurate installment...
...communique also said that five of the seven U. S. pilots downed in the fight had been rescued, and that the small Allied fuel oil boat formerly listed as sunk is now listed as damaged...
...shrouded in a typical New England mist ... lay your own odds as to whether we see the sunrise over the Yard on the 30th of May or not, or march with your own local American Legion in the holiday parade. Casualty list: a good percentage of one Tactics group sunk and not without Trace ... in fact the tracing or tracking down was not in the least, as Sherlock Holmes would put it, "elementary" ... is was very, very systematic ... painstaking and "painsgiving," too--what maneuvering, man, oh man! The Target Ship must have been doing a Conga ... and still caught...
...Navy were the old four-piper destroyers which had some of their guns taken off and boilers taken out, and then were camouflaged to look like palm-fringed jungle, so that they could shuttle Marines to the Solomons in the first phases of the campaign. All four were sunk. What it felt like to be on-and later off-one of them, the Gregory, what it feels like to be sunk in any sea battle, was vividly described in the U.S. last week by Machinist's Mate George Thomas Rhodes of the U.S. Coast Guard, who had a nightmarish...
...Japanese ships sunk by Allied claims in the Battle of Macassar Straits was reduced by some observers to four...