Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Several weeks after Mr. Churchill had left the destroyer, it was torpedoed and sunk. One of the few articles rescued front the wreck was the ensign, which Seaman Robert Sickle, shipmate of the Prime Minister and source of the tale, carried in his jacket...
...idea that just west across the Bay our convoy was slipping through to Africa." As the convoy neared Africa, bombers from Gibraltar made an umbrella for the landings. Fifty submarines menaced the convoy. By last week Prime Minister Churchill was able to announce that 13 had been sunk off North Africa...
...page 30 shows how the pitched battles of the Solomons have favored the U.S. Not included there, however, are the losses which were suffered in the Solomons period when U.S. forces were misused in sluggish defensive tactics-when the Wasp was sunk and several other ships damaged, in mere routine patrolling...
...valuable form of transportation and the scarcest of all is air transportation. We today can well afford, and blessed would we be if we had, 10,000 big four-engine cargo planes that we could supply our forces in the Orient instead of running the hazards of having them sunk on the seas by enemy submarines. If we could carry the millions of tons by air across the Atlantic, North Atlantic, South Atlantic, instead of shipping it on the high seas, the losses would be almost nil, and it would be carried there in hours instead of days or weeks...
Where these five were in addition to the 11 warships and 12 auxiliaries originally reported sunk in the three-day battle remained to be clarified, but a Navy spokesman said...