Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...word that a ship had been sunk during the night. I was on the signal tower when we reached the spot, just as dawn was lighting the scene...
...servicemen, war stuffs and civilians on war missions, started eastward across the Atlantic in early February. Somewhere at sea, U-boats, probably using wolf-pack tactics, picked them up, kept snapping at their keels. By night, a torpedo sank one of the ships; four days later, the other was sunk. Each ship went down in less than 30 minutes, Some lives were saved. This week Washington, announcing the sinkings, also announced the death toll: more than...
...Navy brought the toll up to date with an announcement of losses between Jan. 29 and Feb. 4. U.S.: the twelve-year-old 9,050-ton cruiser Chicago, the destroyer De Haven, three PT boats, 22 planes; Japan: two destroyers, four more probably sunk, 60 planes, plus eight more probables...
...days later, lurking in the same waters, the Wahoo sighted a fat Jap convoy. First a freighter was sunk, next a troop-jammed transport, then a tanker; finally, with the Wahoo's last torpedo, a second freighter. The sweep was clean. Later the Wahoo, its supply of torpedoes gone, had to let another convoy pass unharmed. Said Lieut. Commander Dudley W. Morton, skipper of the broom-flaunting Wahoo: ''When you have no torpedoes you sure feel naked...
...campaign had cost the Japs at least one battleship, 13 cruisers, 22 destroyers, twelve troop transports, at least eight cargo vessels, 797 planes destroyed, hundreds more crippled and possibly destroyed, some 8,000 men killed in action; an unknown number dead of disease; 30,000 drowned when transports were sunk...