Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...survivor, safe in a British port, told how the huge pack of U-boats had closed in on his convoy one dim evening. Losses were heavy in the night. After his ship was sunk the next day, he saw R.A.F. Sunder-lands and Catalinas, and later land-based bombers, attack the pack. The survivor doubted German claims that the U-boats had put down 32 eastbound Allied ships totaling 204,000 tons...
...submarines had exacted of Japanese merchant shipping could only be estimated from the combat-colored reports of returning pilots and submarine skippers. Last week Secretary of the Navy Knox, in a St. Patrick's Day speech in Manhattan, guessed that 1,857,000 gross tons had been sunk, out of a prewar tonnage of 6,369,000. Knox hastily added that half the probable loss had been replaced by new construction, salvage and seizure of foreign vessels in Asiatic ports. Net Jap loss: about 14% of her merchant marine...
...Berlin, the German High Command pointed up the prospects with an ecstatic communique: "In the snowstorms of the North Atlantic, the glaring sun of the Equator and the autumnal storms at the Cape of Good Hope, German submarines have sunk in the last five days, in fierce, tenacious fighting, 23 ships totaling 134,000 tons. A further six ships were torpedoed...
Requirements Up. Sir Arthur Salter, chief of the British Shipping Mission in Washington, said last week that U-boats cannot be beaten, and the war cannot be won, simply by building merchant ships a little faster than they are sunk. The past few months have been good ones largely because U-boats cannot operate efficiently in midwinter seas, and spring is apt to make Allied ships and hearts sink fast. The past few months have also seen vast extensions of Allied military lines, and campaigns of spring and summer are apt to stretch them farther yet. New construction...
...some food and ammunition to MacArthur's beleaguered soldiers. As a brigadier general, Pat Hurley took some millions of dollars and flew to Australia. There he hired shippers who were willing to take the slim chance. Several ships got through-for every one that made it, two were sunk-but it was too late...