Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...making it safe to send their convoys through the Mediterranean, the Allies will save a 12,000-mile voyage around Africa for troops and supplies. From a military standpoint, this saving will be the equivalent of raising hundreds of ships that Hitler's U-boats have already sunk...
...harbor, where Darlan's Navy had only a few small ships, but manned the coastal guns around the naval base, the docks and in the hills. (According to some pre-invasion reports, Germans had also manned coastal batteries in North Africa.) Vichy said that two Allied corvettes were sunk; two French torpedo boats and a sloop were damaged, probably by aircraft from La Senia, Tafaraoui and one other captured airfield. Last to fall was Mers-el-Kebir's airdrome...
...that reports of Japanese carrier losses in the Coral Sea and at Midway may have been "accurate in themselves, but that the Japs' total carrier strength had been underestimated. Even the statement by Expert Hanson W. Baldwin (see p. 67) that the Haruna probably had not been sunk was no longer much of a jolt. Laymen could turn a clearer eye upon tabulations indicating that the Japs, to date, had lost perhaps a third of their known (and probably underestimated) cruiser strength, nearly one-third of their destroyers, six of their carriers, some 75 warships, while...
...Navy waited 65 days to announce the loss of the cruisers Quincy, Vincennes and Astoria, although Australia waited only ten days to admit the loss of the Canberra, sunk in the same action. Since the Japs had announced sinking four cruisers the loss of the three ships was almost certainly no secret except to the U.S. people. Still more disturbing, the announcement appeared to have been timed to coincide with good news of the sinking of six enemy ships which followed next day. Thus the suspicion inevitably arose that the Navy's previous long delays in announcing sinkings...
Disaster at Savo. Reporter Baldwin gave the blackest account yet printed of the naval disaster Aug. 9, in which three U.S. cruisers and one Australian cruiser were sunk (TIME, Oct. 19). "The Astoria, Quincy, Vincennes and Canberra . . . were surprised like sitting ducks; none of them had a chance to get off more than a few ineffectual salvos . . . despite the fact that one of our planes [had reported] the approach of the Japanese cruisers the afternoon prior to the night action. . . . They [the U.S. cruisers] had assumed a defensive position, patrolling over a fixed course in narrow waters and awaiting...