Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jeeze, there was a lot of stuff flying around. I got on another landing boat, but it sunk in a few minutes. I swam out to this boat, kicking off my tunic, and caught hold of a rope. There was a guy hanging to each of my legs and I couldn't move. I was pretty goofy myself by then. The Jerries were firing at us from the top of the cliff and lots of the fellows were getting wounded all over again...
...worth many divisions. They were learning, at last, how to fight the Japanese brand of jungle warfare. And in the Aleutians, in the New Guinea area and in the Solomons the Japs were taking a course in the cost of long communication lines: about 344 planes lost, 19 ships sunk, 21 damaged since Aug. 1. The Japanese could put a few hundred men on an island. Supplying and reinforcing them was another matter. Wake Island is farther from Tokyo than it is from Honolulu; Kiska is about 1,000 miles from any known Jap supply base. And the list...
...battle of Aug. 9 in the Solomon Islands had long been veiled in mystery. This much had been known: the Australian cruiser Canberra and four transports had been sunk. This week the Navy let some more news trickle and the trickle turned out to be a torrent. Three heavy U.S. cruisers were sunk: the Quincy, Vincennes and Astoria. The Jap, surprised at the Marines' landing Aug. 7, had turned around less than 48 hours later and pulled his own surprise. Casualties were "many," but "a majority" were saved. The Navy has not yet claimed sinking any Jap ships...
...Navy and Marines were too busy fighting for their lives on Guadalcanal Island to brood over two-month-old losses. During the week they sank a Jap destroyer, damaged two cruisers and four other ships, shot down seven more planes. Totals since Aug. 7:38 ships damaged or sunk,* 245 planes shot down...
From Central America in 1940 the U.S. imported 31.7 million stems of bananas, 1.7 million bags of coffee. Now banana boats are carrying steel ingots across the Atlantic, coffee ships are scattered around the world's oceans (or sunk). Central American Governments have not enough revenue to take care of their unemployed plantation workers and stevedores. Their chief hope is finding work in a big hemp-growing project in Panama and Costa Rica started by United Fruit Co. By 1943, 20,000 acres of abandoned banana lands will be planted in hemp with 20,000 additional acres ready...