Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first in mid-Atlantic and for four days, in light and darkness, fought off the raiders with gunfire and depth charges. U.S. Navy and British Coastal Command planes patrolled the skies, swooping down on any sub bold enough to surface. Two submarines were probably destroyed. "Some" cargo carriers were sunk. The rest of the convoy, part of it probably destined for Russia, reached England intact...
...after day survivors of torpedoed ships straggled into harbors along the Allies' far-flung ocean supply lines. Stories of vessels sunk, of seamen drifting for weeks on winter seas, had become a dreary and bitter routine. Into Boston last week came the crew of a Panama freighter. Missing were an engineer, a gunner and the chief cook. Five hundred monkeys, part of the cargo, had drowned when the Panamanian was torpedoed in the Indian Ocean...
...periscope, sank a Jap, came back, made a grand slam. But there were also serious yarns about his successes. Eleven ships, he said, was a little optimistic: it included two he was not certain about and two fishing sampans. He had chased a loaded troopship for several hours, finally sunk it. Altogether, he had sunk 69,000 tons of Japanese shipping...
...soldiers are asleep. In the stifling heat of a rear base in Papua, he dictates by muffled flashlight to 23-year-old Private Stephen J. Haretik of Cleveland. Sergeant O'Connell's theory: "In this war there is too much written about Zeros shot down and cruisers sunk and not enough about what soldiers think. We've glamorized, a thousand men, but after the thousandth hero the soldier isn't anything to write about; except to his intimates, nothing even to think about...
...chubby, smiling U.S. Navy chaplain told a Manhattan audience last week about his precarious ministry aboard, the aircraft carrier Wasp, sunk in the Solomons (TIME, Nov. 2). In peacetime Chaplain Merritt F. Williams was a canon of Washington, D.C.'s great unfinished Episcopal Cathedral of SS. Peter & Paul. He had since learned what battle action was like. One afternoon last September, when the 14,700-ton Wasp was struck by three Jap torpedoes and twanged like the string of a bass viol, Chaplain Williams had pitched in to help move the wounded across surging decks, heat-pocked with...