Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These small craft, mostly of wood or wood-and-steel construction, cannot successfully fight a submarine. (Already one such patrol craft, the converted fishing smack YP-389, has been sunk by submarine shellfire.) Few are big enough to carry depth charges or adequate guns. Few are fast enough to drop a depth charge and get away far enough to keep their own sterns from being blown off. Their only real use is to report U-boat movements by radio-if the Navy can supply them with radios-and to rescue survivors...
...this week the unofficial total of sinkings in U.S. waters was 323. The total tonnage sunk was still a secret, but no one denied that sinkings in May were greater than in any previous month of World War I or II, and that the tonnage sunk in June would be greater...
Significant of new tension in Soviet-Japanese relations was the fact that Russia had waited since May 1, when the Angarstroi was sunk, to bring into the open its charge against Japan, with whom it has a year-old Neutrality Pact. If things were going peacefully, Russia would be unlikely to engage in public recrimination. Significant, too, was the fact that through the strict Soviet censorship last week came this sentence in a dispatch from Walter Kerr of the New York Herald Tribune: "The Soviet Union has done everything possible under the circumstances to fulfill its obligations under the Pact...
...Germany blundered into torpedoing another Argentine freighter. But it was almost a foregone conclusion that the Nazis would get off with little more than the "profound regret" they had expressed for the Victoria, sunk last April...
...basis for this thesis was laid when U.S. Army & Navy land-based planes flew out from Midway and Hawaii to take a terrible toll of Jap carriers (TIME, June 22). Most bombers deliberately ignored the accompanying Jap battleships, went directly for the vulnerable carriers. When the carriers were sunk, the whole huge task force had to turn tail. The thesis was strengthened last week when land-based U.S. Consolidated bombers from Northern Africa hammered the Italian Fleet (see p. 22). And the Army in Alaska is even using land-based torpedo planes to blast the Japs out of Attu...