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• 1983 Beirut barracks bombing
  [[Suicide bomber]]s detonated each of the truck bombs. In the attack on the American Marines ...ks Lebanon 1983 Map.jpg|thumb|Sketch map of the route taken by the suicide bomber on the morning of 23 October 1983. [From the Long Commission Report].]]
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• USS Dale W. Peterson (DE-337)
  ...arded the [[Navy Cross]] for distinguished service in intercepting enemy [[bomber]]s attacking his [[aircraft carrier|carrier]] 20 February 1942, and was [[p
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• USS Holder (DE-401)
  ...an]] planes and just before midnight 11 April it was attacked by [[torpedo bomber]]s. ''Holder'' and the other escorts immediately opened fire and began maki
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• USS Menges (DE-320)
  ...coast of the U.S.]], was attacked by 30 [[Nazi Germany|German]] [[torpedo bomber]]s. After shooting down one of the planes, ''Menges'' rescued 137 survivors
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• USS Frederick C. Davis (DE-136)
  ...mber first came under enemy air attack. A wave of [[torpedo]] and medium [[bomber]]s damaged three ships in her convoy but were driven off by the escort's [[
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• USS Fiske (DE-143)
  ...f these, on 20 April 1944 her convoy came under attack by German [[torpedo bomber]]s in the western Mediterranean, but none of the enemy planes came within r
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• USS Farquhar (DE-139)
  ...er 1944 ''Farquhar'' rescued 10 aviators from liferafts after their patrol bomber splashed, and while in [[Florida]] waters as plane guard for carriers condu
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• USS Swasey (DE-248)
  ...y {{convert|15|ft|m}} from the ship. At 2355 the gunners splashed an enemy bomber which passed over the fantail at a height of {{convert|50|ft|m}}. At 0004 o
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• USS Mosley (DE-321)
  ...ng the strikes. Her guns splashed one [[Ju-88]] and damaged another German bomber during the first strike.
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• USS Swenning (DE-394)
  ...embers of the [[Royal Air Force|RAF]] whose [[Handley Page Halifax|Halifax bomber]] had been ditched in the ocean. The task group arrived at Bermuda on 30 Ju
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• USS Absecon (AVP-23)
  ...period: On 13 November 1943, while serving as a target ship for [[torpedo bomber]]s, ''Absecon'' observed a small freighter, SS ''Franklin Baker'', flying d
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• USS Bering Strait (AVP-34)
  ...BM Mariner]] [[flying boat]]s. She tended six Martin PBM-3Ds from [[Patrol bomber|Patrol Bombing]] [[Squadron#Aviation|Squadron]] 25 (VPB-25) from October 14 ...in a vain effort to sink it, ''Bering Strait'' rammed and sank the hardy [[bomber]].
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• USS Cook Inlet (AVP-36)
  ...invasion of [[Iwo Jima]]. ''Cook Inlet'' rescued 27 survivors of downed [[bomber]]s. She was still on duty at Iwo Jima when hostilities with [[Japan]] ended
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• USS Wachapreague (AGP-8)
  ...ring the [[bay]], fired on three twin-motored [[Mitsubishi G4M]] "Betty" [[bomber]]s, claiming two kills as one "Betty" crashed into the sea and a second, tr
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• USS Yakutat (AVP-32)
  ...lowing day, ''Yakutat'' serviced the first plane of [[Patrol bomber|Patrol Bomber]] [[Squadron#Aviation|Squadron]] 216 (VPB-216), furnishing [[aviation fuel] ''Yakutat'' tended planes of Patrol Bomber Squadron 16 (VPB-16) and Patrol Bomber Squadron 17 (VPB-17) at Saipan through mid-January 1945. She departed Tanap
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• USS Unimak (AVP-31)
  ...945, ''Unimak'' transported the men and materiel of [[Patrol bomber|Patrol Bomber]] [[Squadron#Aviation|Squadron]] 103 (VPB-103) and Patrol Bonber Squadron 1
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• USS Barataria (AVP-33)
  ...y 1945 anchored off [[Leyte]] in the [[San Juanico Strait]] tending Patrol Bomber Squadron (VPB) 25, consisting of 15 Martin [[PBM Mariner|PBM-3D Mariner]] [ ...e she anchored shortly after [[noon]]. As the [[patrol bomber]]s of Patrol Bomber Squadron (VPB) 17 arrived that afternoon, one plane sank after a rough land
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• Vickers S
  ...]] from [[Coventry Ordnance Works]].The gun was originally intended as a [[bomber]] defensive weapon and was tested as such in a [[Gun turret|turret]] fitted ...[[RP3|60 pdr RPs]] (rocket projectiles) fired by [[Strike fighter|fighter-bomber]]s was only 5% against tank-sized targets.
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• 20 mm Becker
  ...to utilise the Becker were large aircraft - the [[Friedrichshafen G.III]] bomber and [[AEG G.IV|AEG G.IVk]] ground-attack machine. Tests in smaller, single-
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• 2 cm FlaK 30
  ...effectiveness, given the ever-increasing speeds of low-altitude [[fighter-bomber]]s and attack aircraft. The Army in particular felt the proper solution was
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