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• USS Willis (DE-395)
  ...iation cadet on 22 December 1939. Six days later, he reported to Pensacola Naval Air Station for flight instruction and, on 14 August 1940, emerged with his ...e bombers for what was intended to be a routine flight to Ford Island, the naval air station at Pearl Harbor. However, instead of enjoying an ordinary scout
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• USS Jacob Jones (DE-130)
  ...weeks of ASW and shore bombardment exercises. Steaming independently from Guantanamo 19 July, she transited the [[Panama Canal]] 3 days later, and sailed into [ ...anese Empire prepared to surrender, ''Jacob Jones'' departed the Destroyer Base, San Diego, California, 9 August 1945 for [[Pearl Harbor]]. She reached Pea
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• USS Farquhar (DE-139)
  ...Admiral]] [[Norman von Heldreich Farquhar]], who graduated from the [[U.S. Naval Academy]] in 1859 and had a distinguished record of accomplishments. ...atrols and convoy escort duty in the South Atlantic with the {{USS|Mission Bay|CVE-59|2}} hunter-killer group. She voyaged from [[Bahia, Brazil]], to [[Da
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• USS Blair (DE-147)
  ...ning at [[Casco Bay]], [[Maine]], the [[warship]] returned to [[Chesapeake Bay]] to join a "[[Hunter-killer armored-vehicle team|hunter killer]]" force th ...York on 8 June. Proceeding down to [[Guantanamo Bay Naval Base|Guantanamo Bay]] for refresher training soon thereafter, ''Blair'' exercised in [[Cuba]]n
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• USS Tomich (DE-242)
  ...h'' immediately returned to [[Cuba]]. Upon her arrival back at Guantánamo Bay later the same day, 17 October, she received orders to search for [[USS Dor ...o Norfolk. Released from this duty on the 30th, she returned to Guantanamo Bay before heading north again and making port at Norfolk on 5 November.
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• USS Swasey (DE-248)
  ...lability period from 4 to 13 January, ''Swasey'' held training off [[Casco Bay]], [[Maine]], and sailed for Norfolk on 21 January. She sailed on the 24th ...July. After a short overhaul period there and refresher training at Casco Bay, the destroyer escort proceeded to Norfolk to rejoin TG 22.5. The hunter-ki
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• USS Sellstrom (DE-255)
  She was named in honor of [[Edward Robert Sellstrom]], a Naval aviator, who was awarded the [[Navy Cross]] for his superb marksmanship in ...[[Chesapeake Bay]]. ''Sellstrom'' was relieved of the convoy in Chesapeake Bay on 22 February and proceeded to New York, mooring at the [[Brooklyn Navy Ya
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• USS Thomas J. Gary (DE-326)
  ...ommander Caribbean Sea Frontier at [[Guantanamo Bay Naval Base| Guantanamo Bay]] for temporary duty on 5 February 1944. She was detached from that command ...een patrols, Gary trained off the coast of [[Maine]] and out of Guantanamo Bay, [[Cuba]], and conducted antisubmarine warfare exercises out of [[New Londo
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• USS Frost (DE-144)
  ...alta Conference]]. Additional training in [[Narragansett Bay]] and [[Casco Bay]] prepared her for her final [[antisubmarine]] patrol, during which she won
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• USS Stewart (DE-238)
  ...on 31 May 1943, [[Lieutenant Commander]] [[B. C. Turner]], [[United States Naval Reserve|USNR]], in command. ...s, Louisiana]], where she reported for duty to the Commandant of the [[8th Naval District]] and to the [[Commander, Operational Training Command, Atlantic F
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• USS Wainwright (DD-62)
  ...FS /> <br/>• [[Jonathan Wainwright, Jr.]] <br/>• [[Richard Wainwright (naval officer, Civil War)|Richard Wainwright]] ...rporation|New York Shipbuilding]]<ref name=DANFS>{{cite DANFS | author = [[Naval History & Heritage Command]] | url = http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/w1/w
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• USS Big Horn (AO-45)
  radio direction finders, ''Big Horn'' proceeded to [[Casco Bay]] for ...ent, and thereafter ''Big Horn'' was semi-attached to NOB [Naval Operating Base] [[Trinidad]],
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• USS Surprise (PG-97)
  ...builder=[[Peterson Builders Shipyard]], [[Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin|Sturgeon Bay]], [[Wisconsin]] The fourth '''USS ''Surprise''''' and fifth American naval ship of the name was an [[Asheville class gunboat|''Asheville'' class]] pat
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• USS Tacoma (PGM-92)
  ...oma'' | date = | accessdate = 2007-10-23 | work = [[Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]] | publisher = [[United States Navy]] }}</ref> The keel of ...on, Calif.]], in early December. In January 1970, she entered [[Long Beach Naval Shipyard]] for post-shakedown availability. ''Tacoma'' returned to San Dieg
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• Black site
  ...that many of the detainees held there were being transferred to Guantanamo Bay''.<ref name="today.reuters.com">Reuters, [http://today.reuters.com/news/art ...r 6 and 11 and December 4 and 14, 2006, after their transfer to Guantanamo Bay.<ref name="ICRC">{{cite|title=Report on the Treatment of Fourteen "High Val
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• Enemy combatant
  ...ibunal]] Procedures for Enemy Combatant Detained at [[Guantanamo Bay Naval Base]] Cuba ... An enemy combatant has been defined as "an individual who was pa The Military Commissions Act mandated that Guantanamo captives were no longer entitled to access the US civil justice system, so
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• Extraordinary rendition by the United States
  ...a court filing Falkoff describes a classified prisoner transfer memo from Guantanamo as noting that information could not be retrieved, as torture could not be ...planes to land at the [[Naval Air Station Sigonella]], an Italian military base in [[Sicily]] used by the [[US navy]] and [[NATO]], in an attempt to place
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• Murat Kurnaz
  ..._at = [[Kandahar Internment Facility]], [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp|Guantanamo]] ...[[Afghanistan]] and in the U.S. military prison at [[Guantanamo Bay Naval Base]], [[Cuba]] for four years. Kurnaz, a [[Turkey|Turkish]] citizen and legal
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• Lists of former Guantanamo Bay detainees alleged to have returned to terrorism
  ...04, the US government claimed that newly released captives from Guantanamo Bay detainment camp "returned to the battlefield".<ref name=Sfgate050614> | title=Cheney defends Guantanamo as essential to war: VP says that if freed, prisoners would return to battl
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• No-hearing hearings
  ...(CSRT's) for 393 detainees held on [[Guantanamo Bay Naval Base|Guantánamo Bay]].<ref name=MsNbc20061117> The Denbeauxs represent two detainees at Guantánamo Bay.
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