Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They pounded his supply lines, even sent planes over the Mediterranean toward Crete and Sicily to attack ships moving in slow convoys with new supplies for Rommel's reserves. Sunk within four days were three Axis tankers, two freighters laden with motor vehicles, one destroyer...
Like a reluctant avalanche Franklin Roosevelt's Administration began to move. The public had shouted for action but its shouts had had no more effect than firecrackers in moving a mountainside. The President's popularity, measured by the Gallup poll, had sunk from 84% after Pearl Harbor, to 78% a month ago, to 70% last week...
...well-placed torpedoes might do for the Iowa, but she is so speedy that a 21-knot submarine (even slower submerged) would be hard put to it to get into firing range or draw a bead on her. A destroyer trying it would likely get sunk. A mine could only sting the Iowa. Her heavy guns match any on land or sea, and with them she could have taken on the whole German battle fleet of Jutland. On the surface, these new ships can take care of themselves...
Appearing in public for the first time since his automobile accident last spring, Brazil's President Getulio Vargas promised: "Brazil will defend her waters, will man her coasts." He tried to quiet the people with announcements that U.S. and Brazilian flyers had sunk seven Axis submarines, that German diplomats had been seized as hostages for Brazilians held by the Nazis, that Axis nationals in Brazil had been warned they might be shipped off to labor camps...
...Roving U.S. submarines returned to their bases with word that they had sunk two Japanese merchantmen and a transport in mid-Pacific and a big Japanese merchantman off the occupied Aleutians. The U.S. submarine score to date: 60 Jap merchantmen and naval ships sunk, 31 probably damaged...