Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said a Navy communiqué: another carrier had been sunk Oct. 26. (The Navy Department had either not known or had not told Elmer Davis...
Thus the Navy Department pauses occasionally to announce that a good fistful of Japanese ships has been sunk, and to tell all that is ever told officially about U.S. submarines. By last week the "silent service" had accounted for something over 750,000 tons of Japanese freighters, tankers and warships-9.4% of Japan's pre-war 8,000,000 tons of ships and perhaps one-fifth as much tonnage as German U-boats had sunk of U.S. shipping. This week's Navy announcement credited the subs with seven more ships; three large, two medium, two small, and damage...
...capture in the Philippines; another sank in a collision off Panama. But German submarines in the Mediterranean and in the Atlantic have had less luck, a higher rate of loss.* In World War I Germany lost 178 out of 390 submarines. The U.S. Navy sank two; 14 others were sunk by the Navy's mines...
...Navy had expected a carrier task force battle ever since the Solomons invasion began. Not until last week, almost seven weeks after the Wasp had been sunk by submarines, did it come. A great Jap naval force in two sections, including at least three aircraft carriers, bore down from the northeast. Vice Admiral William Frederick ("Bull") Halsey Jr., the South Pacific's new commander, had his carrier force ready to battle Jap carriers for the third time in six months. Once again the battle was chiefly between planes and ships; no major surface engagement was reported by the Navy...
...Naval officers this week described the hot surface engagement off Guadalcanal Oct. 11-12, claiming one Jap cruiser sunk by gunfire, three others badly...