Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spitfire with the green shamrock level off, drop its tail, hit the sea. Just before it crashed he heard Paddy's voice on the radio: "This is it, chaps." The ship sank like a stone. At 5,000 feet Aikman circled, watching the spot where it had sunk. All he saw was a streak of oil floating on the water...
Biggest U.S. loss was the carrier Yorktown, bombed, torpedoed and forced out of action. The destroyer Hammann was plain sunk. Other U.S. losses: 92 officers, 215 enlisted...
...Meaning of Victory. Before and at Midway the Jap had certainly lost six carriers, almost surely had lost a seventh. Two more had been damaged. In return he could count one U.S. carrier (Lexington) sunk, another gravely damaged...
...Plus. Tallied by U.S. forces in that time were three Jap destroyers and one transport sunk; four cruisers, three destroyers, a gunboat and another transport damaged; seven enemy aircraft, possibly several others, destroyed. Any Japanese plan for a swift knockout blow to the main U.S. naval base in Alaska had been thwarted. But though Alaska stood firm, it was at a price...
Built like a barge, sullen-faced and stormy-eyed, McGuinness was just the man for dangerous work in World War II. The government commissioned him to run cargoes of wood pulp and vital necessities from Sweden under a secret agreement with Germany that the ships would not be sunk. McGuinness did better. He bargained on his own to carry I.R.A. and Nazi agents back & forth via Sweden, was all set to smuggle a German parachutist, Hans Marschner, back to Germany, when the government smelled...