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  ...water operations, protecting aircraft, fixed and mobile sites on land, and ships at sea.
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• USS Sellstrom (DE-255)
  * [[List of United States Navy ships]] ...avy.mil/danfs/#Anchor-Editoria-14954 Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]
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• USS Mills (DE-383)
  * [[List of United States Navy ships]] ...avy.mil/danfs/#Anchor-Editoria-14954 Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]
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• USS Richey (DE-385)
  * [[List of United States Navy ships]] ...avy.mil/danfs/#Anchor-Editoria-14954 Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]
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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 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 Castle Rock (AVP-35)
  ...part of a South Vietnamese that fought in the [[Paracel Islands]] against ships of the [[People's Republic of China]] in the [[Battle of the Paracel Island ...Navy Naval Historical Center Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships: USS ''Castle Rock'' (AVP-35), 1944-1948]
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• USS Cook Inlet (AVP-36)
  ...the [[United States Coast Guard#Symbols|"racing stripe"]] markings on its ships.]]{{main|USCGC Cook Inlet (WAVP-384)}} ...avy: Naval Historical Center: Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships: USS ''Cook Inlet'' (AVP-36), 1944-1948]
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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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• USS Casco (AVP-12)
  ...updates and corrects her original ''Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships'' entry (at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/c4/casco-iii.htm), which stat * [[List of United States Navy ships]]
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• USCGC Unimak (WAVP-379)
  ''Barnegat''-class ships were very reliable and seaworthy and had good habitability, and the Coast G ...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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• USS Unimak (AVP-31)
  ...be lurking nearby. Within a few days, word of a crashed plane sent the two ships speeding for the last reported position of the aircraft. ''Unimak'' located ...search-and-rescue]] operations, and providing communications assistance to ships and aircraft in the [[North Atlantic]]. She also conducted [[United States
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• USCGC Barataria (WAVP-381)
  ...the [[United States Coast Guard#Symbols|"racing stripe"]] markings on its ships.. ''Barnegat''-class ships were very reliable and seaworthy and had good habitability, and the Coast G
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• USCGC Dexter (WAVP-385)
  ...f the [[United States Coast Guard#Symbols|"racing stripe"]] marking on its ships. ...tm</ref> 19 July 1946,<ref>Per the ''Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships'' at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/b6/biscayne-i.htm</ref> or 29 July 1
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• USCGC Bering Strait (WAVP-382)
  ''Barnegat''-class ships were very reliable and seaworthy and had good habitability, and the Coast G ...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 Yakutat (WAVP-380)
  ...ppines on 5 April 1976<ref>Per the ''Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships'' (see http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/y1/yakutat.htm).</ref> or 6 April ''Barnegat''-class ships were very reliable and seaworthy and had good habitability, and the Coast G
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• USCGC Cook Inlet (WAVP-384)
  ...f the [[United States Coast Guard#Symbols|"racing strip"]] markings on its ships. ''Barnegat''-class ships were very reliable and seaworthy and had good habitability, and the Coast G
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• USCGC Staten Island (WAGB-278)
  ...ith [[Service Squadron 1]]. From June through September, she broke ice for ships resupplying the [[Distant Early Warning Line|Distant Early Warning (DEW) Li ...sland'' departed Seattle on 5 July 1956 to lead another convoy of resupply ships bound for the DEW Line through the ice, returning to Seattle on 6 September
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