Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON--The smashing American naval victory in the Solomons last week may have been even greater than originally reported, lit was revealed tonight on the basis of a communique showing that five Jap warships--including a battleship or heavy cruiser--were sunk the night of Nov. 14-15 in a savage slugfest of dreadnaughts and other heavy units...
Other Vichy warships steamed out to meet an Allied fleet and, according to Vichy, suffered heavy damage. U.S. torpedo boats charged into the harbor. Vichy said that several were sunk by harbor anti-aircraft guns, lowered to fire...
...weeks before it was joined. He had lost it at sea as Allied planes and British subs choked off his supplies. Reuters reported that in the past six weeks not a single Axis tanker had been able to cross the Mediterranean Sea. During the battle itself the Allies had sunk more than 50,000 tons of Axis ships that were trying to carry to Rommel oil and materiel. Rommel may have known that the battle was lost when he went to Berlin a month ago, presumably to plead for help...
...Nazi spies accomplished much: they told Hamburg of the arrivals and departures of merchant ships, their cargoes and destinations (at least one ship so betrayed was sunk); they reported the construction of U.S. military bases and other defense activities in Latin America; they revealed defense secrets of the Latin American countries. In addition to spying, the Nazi agents plotted sabotage, attempted to bribe Latin American diplomats and to place agents...
Robert C. Miller (U.P.) and Richard Tregaskis (I.N.S.) were first ashore. They rolled on to the beach with the marines who took over the island. Some other reporters were rescued from ships that were sunk, never got there...