Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MacARTHUR's HEADQUARTERS, Australia--Gen. Mac Arthur is pouring bomber reinforcements into New Guinoa to help beat off Japanese assaults on Guadalcanal, it was learned tonight. His filters have already turned four main Jap supply bases into flaming torches and sunk or damaged 17 Japships in that area the past week...
CAIRO--Allied troops advanced slowly but steadily on the Egyptian battlefront today, picking their way through deep mine and barbed wire defenses and mopping up isolated Axis units at bayonet point, while protecting Allied fliers claimed 21 more Axis planes shot down, two supply ships sunk and two desert truck caravans scattered...
Lieut, Robert M. Campbell A-V (S) USNR, who was on the aircraft carrier "Wasp" when it was sunk last month, will address a closed meeting of the Naval Society of the NROTC this evening...
...Wasp, one of the smallest and newest American carriers, was the third carrier lost in the Battle of the Pacific. The others were the Lexington, lost in the Battle of the Coral Sea last May, and the Yorktown, sunk in the Battle of Midway last June...
This week, the eleventh of the Battle of the Solomons, the U.S. was confronted by some figures and a crisis: U.S. Marines, soldiers and sailors had damaged 51 and sunk eleven ships and destroyed 340 planes in the Solomons area since Aug. 7, while their own announced losses had been only a fraction as high. But the U.S. forces were in trouble as they had not been since Bataan fell. Against the Guadalcanal beachhead held by Marines (plus some recent Army arrivals) the Japs poured wave on wave of cruisers, destroyers, planes and transports brimming with...