Word: sunken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Jap struck Cebu, he struck with overwhelming force. One day ten transports and five warships stood off the harbor where the rusty bones of sunken ships thrust above the blue water, and the skeletons of destroyed oil installations lay dead against the background of waving palms...
...everything in sight. Before 9 o'clock the Japs were pretty well silenced, and the survivors sat among the smoking shambles of a promising advance base. The Japs had lost three four-motored seaplanes, two patrol boats, some dredges and fuel barges, a few prisoners picked up from sunken craft. U.S. loss: one plane...
Survivors of a sunken U.S. tanker told of a submarine that callously ran down two lifeboats and a liferaft. But another sub commander gallantly permitted a fully lighted neutral vessel to approach a sinking freighter and pick up survivors...
...East. The Prime Minister declared that the sunken warships Prince of Wales and Repulse had been sent to Singapore in the hope of deterring Japan from war. No aircraft carriers had been sent with them, for a very good reason: all but one British carrier had been undergoing repairs...
...Winsted, Conn., citizens started a fund to replace the sunken battleship Arizona...