Word: sunkenness
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During the November action the Ticonderoga planes helped litter Manila harbor with sunken Jap ships. In December, when I was aboard, the Third Fleet mostly ran into foul weather, but the carrier planes, including those from the Ticonderoga, left about 450 Jap planes wrecked on the air fields of Luzon, and others on Formosa, according to Halsey's reports...
Manila Bay was still unbeautiful. West of the tragic wreck that was Manila, sunken Japanese ships still littered the bay's muddy floor, many thrusting gaunt masts and rusted superstructures out of the water. But Manila Bay had come back to life: last week plump Liberty ships tied up to the scaly hulks, rode at anchor or nestled at waterfront berths. Their cargoes moved on shuttling Army ducks and landing craft, in rumbling trucks. The world's worst-cluttered harbor was back in business, handling more tonnage than before...
...have been larger but for German infringement of his patents) by selling his sub to foreign countries when the U.S. did not buy it, finally got the U.S. interested just before World War I. He died poor, partly because of the money he blew on fanciful schemes to salvage sunken treasure by submarine...
...what makes the scalp tighten when backed by sound effects and Bernard Herrmann's excellent score and eloquent silences frequently looks tinselly in type. The eye sometimes misses the dramatic moment that Corwin skillfully devises for the ear: the sounds of underwater sloshing, a metallic pounding on a sunken sub, to ask the men inside if they've heard the V-E news-and no answer comes...
...opening of these ports will mean that the ports of France and the Low Countries can more quickly carry a flow of peacetime goods. Rotterdam docks are in fairly good shape, but the harbor is still blocked by sunken shipping...