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• 1983 Beirut barracks bombing
  ...th toll for the United States military since the 243 killed on January 31, 1968, the first day of the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War. The attack rema ...//findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0JIW/is_1_58/ai_n14858440/pg_19 Hospital ships in the war on terror: sanctuaries or targets? | Naval War College Review |
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• USS Brister (DE-327)
  |Ship struck=23 September 1968 ''Brister'' was stricken 23 September 1968.
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• USS Snowden (DE-246)
  |Ship flag={{USN flag|1968}} |Ship out of service= 23 September 1968
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• USS Howard D. Crow (DE-252)
  |Ship struck=23 September 1968 ...ls. In 1957, she took part in important [[NATO]] exercises with almost 50 ships from a dozen countries and in 1958 the versatile ship acted as communicatio
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• USS Lowe (DE-325)
  |Ship flag={{USN flag|1968}} |Ship decommissioned=20 September 1968
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• USS Newell (DE-322)
  |Ship flag={{USN flag|1968}} |Ship decommissioned=21 September 1968
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• USS Pride (DE-323)
  |Ship flag={{USN flag|1968}} ...n]] planes attacked Convoy UGS–38 at dusk off [[Algiers]], and sank five ships, including a transport carrying 500 soldiers, and destroyer {{USS|Lansdale|
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• USS Koiner (DE-331)
  |Ship flag={{USN flag|1968}} |Ship decommissioned=1968
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• USS Mills (DE-383)
  ...p notes= Washington Naval District at [[Baltimore, Maryland]], 3 September 1968 ..., ''Mills'' was underway [[school ship]] off [[Florida]]. On 3 September 1968, ''Mills'' became an operational Naval Reserve [[training ship]] at [[Balti
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• USS Richey (DE-385)
  |Ship struck=30 June 1968 ...June 1954, where she remained until struck from the [[Navy list]] 30 June 1968, and sunk as a target.
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• USS Wilhoite (DE-397)
  The [[transatlantic]] passage proved largely uneventful; but, as the Allied ships transited the Strait of Gibraltar, the British antiaircraft cruiser {{HMS|C ...{{convert|18|mi|km}} northeast of UGS-40. Two minutes later, the screening ships commenced their barrage. Observers in ''Wilhoite'' saw the attacking planes
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• USS Vance (DE-387)
  ''Vance'' next got underway on 12 April, with the other ships of CortDiv 45 and a Navy-manned destroyer escort division, to screen the 10 ...of Navy destroyers. Three days later, after an extensive hunt, the relief ships sank ''U-616''.
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• USS Thomas J. Gary (DE-326)
  ..., every precaution was taken to minimize damage and casualties, should the ships strike a mine. The American sailors maintained a state of readiness to repe The ships maintained a condition of modified general quarters and stationed armed gua
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• USS Edsall (DE-129)
  |Ship struck=1 June 1968 ''Edsall'' was stricken from the [[Naval Vessel Register]] on 1 June 1968, and sold for scrap in July 1969.
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• USS Camp (DE-251)
  ...om [[New York]] to ports of the [[United Kingdom]], guarding convoys whose ships brought troops and mountains of equipment and supplies for the buildup and ...toria Harbour|Hong Kong harbor]] taking on the radio guard for all US Navy ships pulling extended stays.
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• USS Savage (DE-386)
  ...63. This task force was engaged in escorting convoys of 60 to 80 merchant ships from United States ports to the Mediterranean Theatre. ...r each convoy, the SAVAGE and her sister ships safely escorted hundreds of ships loaded with vital war materials safely past the heavy enemy submarine and a
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• USS Bering Strait (AVP-34)
  ...ef>This quote, from the ship{{'}}s ''Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships'' entry (at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/b5/bering-strait-i.htm) is un ...ef>This quote, from the ship{{'}}s ''Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships'' entry (at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/b5/bering-strait-i.htm) is un
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• USS Yakutat (AVP-32)
  |Ship complement=215 (ships' company)<br/>367 (with aviation unit) ...This quote, from ''Yakutat''{{'}}s ''Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships'' entry at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/y1/yakutat.htm, is unattribute
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• USCGC Casco (WAVP-370)
  The ''Barnegat''-class ships were very reliable and seaworthy and had good habitability, and the [[Unite ...check point at the [[point of no return]], a relay point for messages from ships and aircraft, as a source of the latest weather information for passing air
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• USCGC Humboldt (WAVP-372)
  ...f the [[United States Coast Guard#Symbols|"racing stripe"]] marking on its ships and her [[Ship decommissioning|decommissioning]] in 1969. ''Barnegat''-class ships were very reliable and seaworthy and had good habitability, and the Coast G
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