Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When war came, with human monsters flying through the air, Britain forgot the monster in the lake. The Italians remembered, though. They lent a touch of color and realism to one of their famed communiqués by announcing that the monster had been bombed and sunk during an Italian raid on Scotland. To this calumny the monster retorted by merrily roiling, once more, the waters of Loch Ness...
...Japanese meant business: their air attack on Dutch Harbor (TIME, June 15) had been no feint. The U.S. meant business, too: in Washington, Army & Navy officials announced U.S. air attacks on Japanese forces in the western islands of the Aleutians, claimed one cruiser sunk, seven other vessels damaged, including one aircraft carrier, three more cruisers. The Navy also described "continuing air attacks upon enemy landing parties and their supporting naval contingents...
This dictum of modern naval warfare was laid down last week by Rear Admiral Frederick Carl Sherman, captain of the great carrier Lexington, whose planes had sunk one and probably two Japanese carriers before she was sunk in turn by torpedoes and bombs delivered by determined Japanese airmen. The sinking of the Lexington ended the second round of a great heavyweight free-for-all, air ships v. surface ships. Before the Lexington's commander got home and buttoned on his reward, the golden shoulder boards of an admiral, another round had ended...
...proof went on. A great naval battle was fought in the Coral Sea, and not a shot was fired by one surface ship against another. Carriers were sunk, and no desperate defense their airmen could make could save them...
...they will next year) to ranges of 10,000 miles, with bomb loads of 25 tons? What price carriers to a group of nations which controls the islands of the seas and can use them (as the Jap uses the Mandates) for stationary carriers that cannot be sunk by aircraft...