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• Fallout shelter
  ...//www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/pdf/709_near.pdf</ref> In the U.S. in September 1961 the Federal Government started the Community Fallout Shelter Program.< ...rom President Kennedy advising the use of fallout shelters appeared in the September, 1961 issue of Life magazine.)<ref>[http://www.em.doe.gov/Publications/time
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• 1983 Beirut barracks bombing
  ...in Lebanon. Furthermore, these factions had been responsible for multiple attacks committed against the Muslim and Druze Lebanese population.{{Citation neede ...-al-Garb on 19 September and that the French conducted an air strike on 23 September in the Bekaa Valley. American support removed any lingering doubts of our n
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• USS Jacob Jones (DE-130)
  |Ship beam=36.58&nbsp;feet (11.15&nbsp;m) ...first [[antisubmarine]] attack 7 August firing 13 [[depth charges]] in two attacks. She arrived [[Casablanca]], [[French Morocco]], 13 August; a week later sh
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• USS Huse (DE-145)
  |Ship laid down=11 January 1943 |Ship beam=36.58&nbsp;feet (11.15&nbsp;m)
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• USS Inch (DE-146)
  |Ship commissioned=8 September 1943 |Ship beam=36.58&nbsp;feet (11.15&nbsp;m)
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• USS Blair (DE-147)
  |Ship commissioned= 13 September 1943 |Ship fate=Sold 26 September 1974 for scrap
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• USS Joyce (DE-317)
  |Ship commissioned=30 September 1943 |Ship reclassified=DER-317, 13 September 1950
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• USS Mosley (DE-321)
  |Ship beam=36.58&nbsp;feet (11.15&nbsp;m) ...erte and two to [[Oran]], returning from her final Mediterranean convoy on 11 February 1945. After completing availability at New York, she joined a [[Hu
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• USS Janssen (DE-396)
  |Ship beam=36.58&nbsp;feet (11.15&nbsp;m) ''Janssen'' departed 11 January 1944 from [[Galveston, Texas]], to conduct [[Shakedown (testing)|sh
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• USS Wilhoite (DE-397)
  |Ship reclassified=DER-397, 2 September 1954 |Ship beam=36.58&nbsp;feet (11.15&nbsp;m)
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• USS Brough (DE-148)
  |Ship commissioned=18 September 1943 to 22 March 1946<br />7 September 1951 to June 1965 |Ship beam=36.58&nbsp;feet (11.15&nbsp;m)
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• USS Vance (DE-387)
  |Ship beam=36.58&nbsp;feet (11.15&nbsp;m) ...the scene for 10 hours, subjecting the U-boat to depth-charge and hedgehog attacks, until relieved by a squadron of Navy destroyers. Three days later, after a
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• USS Stewart (DE-238)
  |Ship beam=36.58&nbsp;feet (11.15&nbsp;m) ...ived at [[Port Royal]] on 10 May and, for the next week, made experimental attacks on the captured [[Italy|Italian]] [[submarine]] ''[[Rea (submarine)|Rea]]''
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• USS J. Richard Ward (DE-243)
  |Ship laid down=30 September 1942 |Ship beam=36.58&nbsp;feet (11.15&nbsp;m)
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• USS Keith (DE-241)
  |Ship decommissioned=20 September 1946 ...y]] named in honor of Ellis Judson Keith, Jr., who was killed in action on 11 June 1942, Seaman Keith was posthumously awarded the [[Air Medal]].
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• USS Chincoteague (AVP-24)
  ...ates Coast Guard]] 7 March 1949<br/>Transferred outright to Coast Guard 26 September 1966 ...en in tow by seaplane tender [[USS Thornton (AVD-11)|USS ''Thornton'' (AVD-11)]], and then by [[Tugboat|tug]] [[USS Sonoma (AT-12)|USS ''Sonoma'' (AT-12)
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• USS Half Moon (AVP-26)
  |Ship decommissioned=4 September 1946 .... Coast Guard]] 30 July 1948<br/>Permanently transferred to Coast Guard 26 September 1966
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• USS Biscayne (AVP-11)
  |Ship image=[[Image:USS Biscayne (AVP-11).jpg|300px|USS Biscayne (AVP-11)]] |Ship caption=USS ''Biscayne'' (AVP-11) on 29 January 1942
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• USS Willoughby (AGP-9)
  ...m [[seaplane tender]], AVP-57, to [[motor torpedo boat tender]], AGP-9, on 11 May 1943 ...was reclassified as a motor torpedo boat tender and redesignated AGP-9 on 11 May 1943. Launched on 21 August 1943, sponsored by Mrs. D. R. Lee, she was
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• USS Wainwright (DD-62)
  |Ship laid down=1 September 1914<ref name=DANFS /> ...building Corporation|New York Shipbuilding]] of [[Camden, New Jersey]], in September 1914 and [[launch (ship)|launch]]ed in June of the following year. The ship
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