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Word: sunk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: Spitfire | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: A Chapter of History | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: A Chapter of History | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ALASKA: Profit & Loss | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRELAND: McGuinness Got Around | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

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