Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sunk in addition to the cruiser were two cargo ships, a tanker and a trawler. These successes, accomplished "somewhere in Far Eastern waters" were independent of operations in the Solomon Islands, where American se and air forces racked up a smashing victory against a Jap armada last weekend and where Marines launched a new land offensive on Guadalcanal Island...
...wheel chairs on the lawn. The President spoke to Marine Leo Lopacinski, who killed 36 Japanese in the Solomon Islands before he himself was wounded. He examined a U.S. submarine which had nine little Japanese flags painted on the conning tower-one for each ship it had sunk...
Since June planes and submarines had sunk upward of 140,000 tons of Axis shipping in the Mediterranean. According to the New York Herald Tribune's Russell Hill, not a single convoy from Italy, via Greece, makes the crossing without being spotted, attacked and attacked again. Montgomery, on the other hand, was getting reinforcements in a thickening stream: U.S. tanks, mobile artillery, planes. Ships unloaded supplies at Suez at the rate of 10,000 tons...
...Sunk: ten (possibly 18) vessels, including six or seven destroyers and probably two cruisers. Damaged: 24 vessels, including destroyers, cruisers, submarines and transports. Destroyed: 22 planes. Estimates of Japanese troops on the islands had run as high as 25,000. Actually there were about 3,000, and they were subjected to constant and frightful attrition. Said a U.S. officer: "The Japs are now getting an idea of what Corregidor was like...
...Admiral Sir Tom Phillips' attempt to place his heavy ships where they could sink the Japanese transports at sea. We have never heard why the R.A.F. fighters, which were half an hour away, gave Admiral Phillips no help whatever" (when H.M.S. Prince of Wales and H.M.S. Repulse were sunk...