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|Ship image=[[Image:DE-320 Menges.jpg|300px|Official USCG photo of USS ''Menges'' (DE-320), date and location unknown.]] |Ship caption=Official USCG photo of USS ''Menges'' (DE-320), date and location unknown.

|Ship out of service= ...ck for Navy vessels and [[convoys]]. Post-war she was converted and served the Navy as a weather ship and then as a radar picket ship.

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|Ship out of service= ...ly]] for his actions during the [[Battle of the Aleutian Islands|battles]] of [[Kiska]] and [[Attu]].

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...with breakaway wooden nose and tail protection which is shed upon hitting the water.]] ...12.8|kn}} slower than the [[Mark 14 torpedo]]. 17,000 were produced during the war.{{Ref|Milford1}}

|origin= [[United States]] |manufacturer=[[Bureau of Ordnance]]

...[[Destroyer|"tincans"]] in the decisive [[Battle of Vella Gulf]] which was the first successful U.S. destroyer torpedo duel]] ...rick J. "U. S. Navy Torpedoes. Part One: Torpedoes through the thirties."] The Submarine Review, April 1996.</ref>

The '''Mark 18 torpedo''' was an electric torpedo used by the [[US Navy]] during [[World War II]]. ...r. ''Silent Victory'' (New York: Bantam, 1976), p.280.</ref> in particular the [[Mark 2 torpedo|Mark II]], originated in 1941 in collaboration with [[Gene

...arines out of a total of 204 fired. The torpedo was also supplied to the [[United Kingdom|British]] and [[Canada|Canadian]] forces. ...gan development in December 1941. These later projects later became Office of Scientific Research and Development project 61 (FIDO).

...ignation of the [[M249 light machine gun#Variants|Mk 46 Mod 0]] variant of the [[M249 light machine gun]]}} ...:Mark-46-prop.jpg|thumb|right|A Mark 46 Mod 5A torpedo is inspected aboard the guided missile destroyer [[USS Mustin (DDG-89)|USS ''Mustin'']]]]

...h ={{convert|262.5|in|m}} bore (50 [[Caliber#Caliber as measurement of length|cal]]) ..._525-50_mk1.htm Page of Navweapons]</ref>, it saw extensive service during the [[Second World War]].

...ref name="hellions">{{cite book|last=Gannon|first=Robert|title=Hellions of the Deep|publisher=Pennsylvania State University Press|date=30 April 1996|pages The words '''Thunder fish''' is literally translation of Japanese ''gyorai'' that means "torpedo" (''gyo'' = fish, ''rai'' = thunder

...ard an aircraft carrier, each lower half was retouched in black to conceal the roll rudders. |unit_cost= 20,000 yen (in the year 1941)

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