Word: wasps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just seven days after Hersey got home, the Navy released the news of the sinking of the carrier Wasp. Hersey was on one of the ships in the Wasp's task force when the carrier was sunk, and he wrote the eyewitness story of the sinking in TIME, this week...
...cruisers had been sunk, taken unawares at night and potted like ducks. The step-by-step victory campaign back up through the Pacific Islands wobbled dangerously on the first step. Then this week came a shock: news (41 days late) of the sinking of another precious aircraft carrier, the Wasp...
Lieut, Robert M. Campbell A-V (S) USNR, who was on the aircraft carrier "Wasp" when it was sunk last month, will address a closed meeting of the Naval Society of the NROTC this evening...
Three torpedo hits which struck near the Wasp's magazines and gasoline tanks set off a series of explosions and fires which soon made the carrier helpless...
...Wasp, one of the smallest and newest American carriers, was the third carrier lost in the Battle of the Pacific. The others were the Lexington, lost in the Battle of the Coral Sea last May, and the Yorktown, sunk in the Battle of Midway last June...