Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time some military experts argued that the Japs must be dislodged within 60 days, or the job would become enormously difficult to do at all. The Japs were unquestionably at work: Tokyo claimed a big convoy had got through to Alaska without losses; the U.S. Navy claimed to have sunk three, possibly four destroyers and damaged another, probably out of the same convoy...
...been bombed useless), the convoy was churning toward the Barents Sea. Off North Cape it ran into trouble. For several days all that was known of the encounter was the Berlin radio's growing claims, first that nine, later that 32 out of 38 ships had been sunk, with an escorting U.S. cruiser tossed in for good measure...
Though Moscow spoke of the convoy's safe arrival in port, Berlin stepped up its claims by week's end, reporting that every one of the 38 supply ships had been sunk, only five escort vessels left afloat. Whatever the convoy's actual fate, Germany was making its strongest bid to smash the Arctic supply route...
...their Baltic backyard the Germans last week were getting a taste of their own mine and U-boat medicine. Six German troop transports went down. Cargo ships that spill Swedish iron ore and Finnish wood pulp into the Nazi war machine were being sunk. Trans-Baltic ferry service had been suspended. German Baltic ports were jammed with minesweepers, destroyers, patrol boats and anti-aircraft vessels...
...solid summer month, 15 men of the United Nations fighting forces had shown themselves to the hero-worshipping public. Men of the R.A.F. who had bombed Augsburg in daylight and devastated Rostock at night. Commando-men who had raided Vagsoy and St.-Nazaire in blackface, U.S. flyers who had sunk subs in the Atlantic, had flown bombers on moonless nights over the South Pacific...