Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Father's Day. In Hillsboro, Ohio, Harry Woods, who had just heard a broadcast that his son's ship had been sunk, went out for a brooding walk, met his son arriving home on a furlough...
...Navy said that three aircraft carriers and one battleship had been sunk. Two more carriers and a second battleship had been damaged badly enough to be included in another summary of specific losses. The Japanese thus admitted that five carriers and two battleships had been put out of action-a total very near the U.S. claim that six carriers and two battleships had been sunk...
...Japs were still trying on Guadalcanal. U.S. forces beat off another attempt to land troops at night. With the loss of one American cruiser, nine enemy ships were sunk: two large destroyers or light cruisers, four destroyers, two transports, one cargo ship. Not a Jap landed...
Half, or part, or what part, was still a mystery last week. Most reliable sources in London said that, while a few vessels might have escaped, all available information showed that the battleship Strasbourg and the cruisers Algerie, Dupleix and Colbert had been sunk, that most of the other 58 French warships in Toulon on that shattering dawn had at least been seriously damaged...
Pratt & the Graf Spee. Military Expert Fletcher Pratt of New York City invented in 1929 and has since developed a Naval War Game which actually approximates sea war. One night in 1939 the players looked at each other and whistled. Three light ships had just sunk the German pocket battleship, the Admiral Graf Spee, a supposedly impossible feat. But their calculations showed it could be done-and they were not so much surprised as vindicated when the Graf Spee actually got her comeuppance in just that way six months later off Brazil...