Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keep a close eye on the Aleutians. No one can say what the Japs planned there, but it has cost them tremendously. The attrition has been very heavy. In the Solomons the Jap's planes have been shot down by the hundreds, his ships have been sunk by the tens, and he's lost men by the hundreds certainly...
There was a Fortress radioman named Warrenfels who heard that a radio operator was urgently needed on Bataan. He volunteered to go, boarded a ship trying to run the Jap blockade. The ship was sunk 200 miles off Java. Another enlisted man who is no longer with the 19th is 19-year-old Private Arvid Hegdahl, tail gunner of a Flying Fortress. After he shot down a Zero his leg was almost blown off, but he continued to shout encouragement to other members of the crew. When the time came to evacuate Java he had to be left...
ROMMEL 100 MILES IN EGYPT. The count on U.S. ships sunk by Axis subs at the end of June: 323. The newspapers that told of Jap landings in the Aleutians also carried an announcement from Cordell Hull: the U.S. would resume shipment of food, clothing and fuel oil to French North Africa...
...everyone Knew that a new era was beginning. All afternoon tense groups huddled around radios, and some brought little portables down into the dining halls to catch the latest news. "Did you hear we sunk an aircraft carrier of their's off the Panama Canal? Manila has been bombed several times? Most of our fleet was out of the harbor at the time, and the Nips only sunk an old target ship and a couple of destroyers, anyway. Well, this...
...Monday morning CRIMSON headlines shrieked "UNIVERSITY DELAYS IMMEDIATE ACTION AS AMERICAS PREPARE TO FIGHT AXIS; 4 Jap Subs Sunk, Many Planes Fall Near Hawaii; College Defers Changes; Faculty Voices Opinion." Said Government Professor Bruce Hopper, now presumably some-where across the seas, "The Japs have delivered it into our hands on a platter. The hot-headed Japanese have played right into our hands. By this move she has written herself off in history as a great power." Claimed Pitirim A. Sorekin, professor of Sociology, "Personally, for many years I have been warning that Japan has been preparing, not only against...