Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bombs on the enlarged target. Ten minutes later came Australian Beaufighters. Next another wave of Mitchells dropped explosives on dodging cargo ships and destroyers. This fight was for the kill. The Mitchells swooped low to strafe lifeboats and rafts. A destroyer, three merchantmen and a transport were sunk. Eight others were hit. One squadron of Mitchells, skip-bombing at mast level, got twelve hits, despite the nail of frantic Jap ack-ack. More Zeros appeared, but they too were shot down. Kenney's bombers were blasting at Lae, nearest Jap airdrome, with such ferocity that effective...
...least 90 Axis ships have been sunk in the central Mediterranean during the last four months: many more have probably been sunk. Royal Navy submarines sank the majority of them. Allied fighters have harassed the air transport lines. Allied bombers from Malta and the African mainland have incessantly bombed Axis ports, transshipment points and railroads in Italy, Sicily and on the receiving end in Tunisia. Since they lost Tripoli, Rommel's forces in southern Tunisia have been supplied by the overworked coastal railroad between Bizerte and Gabes, and this too has often been bombed. But Allied attacks have neither...
...Radio Rome once asked: "Who cares about American radio nonsense?" Apparently some Italians do, for the Italian stations are forever burlesquing U.S. broadcasts, Sample: "An American sub named Comfort Station, manned by five men and a lady assistant, Miss Higgins, has sunk the Italian Navy in the Mediterranean. All Italy's aghast...
...destroyer, damaged two. Again the Jap task force turned back. From that night's work, three PTs did not return. But, they had added the last figure to an imposing column: in less than four months in the Solomons, PT Corner's high-speed craft had sunk or damaged more than 250,000 tons of Japanese shipping...
...Salt Lake City has probably been in more engagements than any other warship. Jap communiques have "sunk" her twice and left her burning once. They must have known better, for no sailorman could fail to identify her at a glance...