Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...communiqués admitted that stiff resistance was encountered, admitted that at least one U.S. cruiser was sunk, two cruisers, two destroyers and one transport damaged. But they announced that initial surprise had been achieved, that many enemy planes had been downed and surface vessels put out of action...
...bitter kind that can be expected in landing on a hostile shore against a determined enemy. The Japs announced that their planes went out and engaged the attacking vessels in a raging storm. As usual they made exaggerated claims of losses inflicted on the U.S.-asserted that they had sunk a battleship and 21 other warships and transports...
Father Kaiser promised the first of his transports within ten months. Skeptics are sure it will take longer. But the freighters that cannot be sunk by subs will be welcome whenever they are finished. General Arnold admitted, as he announced that the Army itself had converted 21% of big bomber production to freighters: "Right now we need cargo planes badly, and two years from now we will still be needing them...
...Where Bock's tanks outnumbered Timoshenko's, sometimes as much as 4-to-1, the Russians had laid ambushes. Along a two-mile front they had sunk half a dozen light tanks into the earth as pillboxes. Three or four other tanks were left free to attempt to lure German tanks into the line of fire, with some success. But still the Germans pushed...
Twenty-five Thousand Alone. Since the Navy reported last month that three more Jap destroyers had been sunk, the only news of the Aleutians has come from the Tokyo radio. A Japanese correspondent on Kiska reported that U.S. bombers were visiting the island two or three times a day, dropping their loads through the fog; that roads were being built across the black, treeless hills; that Japanese troops were unhappy over the prospect of a winter on bleak Kiska. "The loneliness in this remote northern base is hard to imagine back home," complained the writer...