Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before Klakring returned to Pearl Harbor he fell upon a cargo vessel plodding all alone up the coast. He torpedoed her and took her picture going down. The results of Klakring's single cruise: sunk, eight ships totaling 70,000 tons; damaged and possibly sunk, four totaling 20,000 tons...
Last week Washington announced the toll of Japanese ships in the Navy's merciless, little-publicized submarine campaign: sunk, 98; probably sunk, 22; damaged, 28. Like the beaches of the U.S. Atlantic coast, the neat white beaches of Japan were getting sprinkled with wreckage and soiled with...
...coastal waters several hundred miles out have been cleared of subs, except for an occasional lone scout. But in the old North Atlantic graveyard, convoys to Russia and Britain suffer systematic and heavy attacks. Sixty-seven sinkings reported last week brought the war total up to 3,801 ships sunk, of which 2,029 were Allied ships. So far, 63,154 seamen of all nations have been killed or are missing...
Nearly 600 Axis subs have been damaged since the beginning of the war (how many of that number were sunk is unknown*) but the Germans appear to be making more than are destroyed. They are turning out U-boats which can catch most merchantmen...
...Navy claimed during World War I to have sunk 725 U-boats; in a post-war checkup the Germans admitted that the U.S. craft had actually sunk...