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• Fallout shelter
  ...ch shelters were constructed as [[civil defense]] measures during the Cold War. During the Cold War many countries built fallout shelters for high-ranking government officials
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• Quartermaster Corps (United States Army)
  ...ier]]s have served in every U.S. military operation from the Revolutionary War to current operations in Iraq (Operation Iraqi Freedom) and Afghanistan (Op * remount / war dogs [http://www.qmfound.com/remount1.htm]
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• United States Navy Hospital Corpsman
  ...1 and remained through the [[American Civil War|Civil War]]. Following the war, the title Surgeon's Steward was abolished in favor of [[Apothecary]], a po ...lobbied the Navy administration to take action. With the Spanish-American War looming, Congress passed a bill authorizing establishment of the U.S. Navy
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• 1983 Beirut barracks bombing
  ...bombing''' (October 23, 1983 in Beirut, Lebanon) during the Lebanese Civil War, two [[truck bomb]]s struck separate buildings housing [[Military of the Un ...nam War, and the deadliest single attack on Americans overseas since World War II.<ref name=HouseReport>{{cite web|accessdate=2007-09-30
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• USS Huse (DE-145)
  == World War II North Atlantic operations== == End of War operations==
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• USS Blair (DE-147)
  ...ll-class]] [[destroyer escort]] built for the [[U.S. Navy]] during [[World War II]]. She served in the [[Atlantic Ocean]] the [[Pacific Ocean]] and provid ==World War II Atlantic Ocean operations==
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• USS Howard D. Crow (DE-252)
  ...ll-class]] [[destroyer escort]] built for the [[U.S. Navy]] during [[World War II]]. She served in the [[Atlantic Ocean]] the [[Pacific Ocean]] and provid == World War II North Atlantic operations==
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• USS Wilhoite (DE-397)
  ...all|destroyer escort}} built for the [[United States Navy]] during [[World War II]]. She served in the [[Atlantic Ocean]] and the [[Pacific Ocean]] and pr ==World War II North Atlantic operations==
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• USS Brough (DE-148)
  |Ship motto=''Frontier Guardian, In Peace, In War''<ref>Motto from Ships patch via Navsource.org</ref> ===At war===
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• USS Biscayne (AVP-11)
  |Ship honors=Six [[battle star]]s for [[World War II]] service == World War II service ==
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• USS Lipan (AT-85)
  |Ship honors=2 [[battle star]]s (World War II)<br/>4 [[battle star]]s (Korea) ...World War II and four [[battle stars]] for their efforts during the Korean War.
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• USS Escape (ARS-6)
  ...nd salvage ship]] commissioned by the [[U.S. Navy]] for service in [[World War II]]. She was responsible for coming to the aid of stricken vessels. == World War II service ==
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• Barnegat class seaplane tender
  ...of [[United States Navy]] small [[seaplane tender]]s built during [[World War II]]. Thirty were completed as seaplane tenders, four as [[motor torpedo bo ...avy foresaw a need for a large force of seaplane tenders in the event of a war in the [[Pacific]], to allow air operations from undeveloped islands and at
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• 120 mm M1 gun
  |wars= [[World War II]] and [[Korean War]] ...it had been designed to be mobile and saw some action during the [[Korean War]]. The 120 was phased out quite quickly in the 1950s with the introduction
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• 16"/50 caliber Mark 7 gun
  |wars=[[World War II]]<br>[[Korean War]]<br>[[Vietnam War]]<br>[[Gulf War]] ...date = 2006-08-26}}</ref> This gave the US Navy a major advantage in World War II, as the Japanese did not develop radar or automated fire control to the
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• 8"/55 caliber gun
  |wars= [[World War II]]<br/>[[Korean War]]<br/>[[Vietnam War]] * {{cite book| title=Naval Weapons of World War Two |author=Campbell, John |publisher=Naval Institute Press |year=1985 |id=
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• BL 6 inch Mk XXIII naval gun
  |wars=[[Second World War]]<br>[[Korean War]] ...non-anti-aircraft) [[cruiser]]s built from 1930 through the [[second world war]]. It replaced the [[BL 8 inch Mk VIII naval gun]] used on earlier [[Washi
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• Bofors 40 mm
  ...r]], [[South African Border War]], [[Falklands War]], [[Gulf War]], [[Iraq War]] ...ems during [[World War II]], used by most of the western [[Allies of World War II|Allies]] as well as various other forces. It is often referred to simply
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• Carl Gustav recoilless rifle
  ...ghanistan (2001–present)|War in Afghanistan]], [[Falklands War]], [[Iraq War]] In a well-known incident during the [[Falklands War]], a [[Royal Marines|Royal Marine]] damaged an Argentinian [[D'Estienne_d'O
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• Hispano-Suiza HS.404
  |wars=World War II |wars=World War II, Korean War
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