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• Fallout shelter
  During the Cold War many countries built fallout shelters for high-ranking government officials and crucial military facilities. Plans were made, however, to use ...tectives/pdf/709_near.pdf</ref> In the U.S. in September 1961 the Federal Government started the Community Fallout Shelter Program.<ref>
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• 1983 Beirut barracks bombing
  ...dmark|name=USMCBarracksatBeirutAirport|display=inline,title}}<br/>[[United States Marine Corps]] [[barracks]], [[Beirut Airport]] ...s struck separate buildings housing [[Military of the United States|United States]] and [[Military of France|French military forces]]—members of the Multin
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• USS Ricketts (DE-254)
  ...isarming of the Japanese on that bypassed island, and to set up a military government. Further duty included the repatriation of natives of [[Pohnpei|Ponape]] an * [[List of United States Navy ships]]
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• USS Vance (DE-387)
  ...aircraft entering or approaching the air space of the northwestern United States. On Labor Day 1957, ''Vance'' drew emergency duty—an engineering casualty ...r, as the United States stepped up its efforts to aid the South Vietnamese government in countering internal and external communist aggression, the ship received
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• USS Thomas J. Gary (DE-326)
  ...in the [[Mediterranean]] and the [[United Kingdom]] and back to the United States. Here is a list of the ETO convoys: ...e 18 months, breaking the routine duty with a visit to [[Belgium]] and the United Kingdom in August 1958.
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• USS Camp (DE-251)
  ...n command; and reported to the [[United States Fleet Forces Command|United States Atlantic Fleet]]. ...and a half of convoy escort operations from [[New York]] to ports of the [[United Kingdom]], guarding convoys whose ships brought troops and mountains of equ
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• USS Absecon (AVP-23)
  |Ship country=United States |Ship notes=Served as U.S. [[United States Coast Guard Cutter|Coast Guard cutter]] [[USCGC Absecon (WAVP-374)|USS ''Ab
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• USS Castle Rock (AVP-35)
  |Ship country=United States |Ship fate=Loaned to [[United States Coast Guard]] 16 September 1948<br/>Permanently transferred to Coast Guard
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• USCGC Gresham (WAVP-387)
  ..., WAGW-387) sometime after the Coast Guard's 1967 adoption of the [[United States Coast Guard#Symbols|"racing stripe"]] markings on its ships. |Ship country=United States
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• USS Willoughby (AGP-9)
  |Ship country=United States |Ship fate=Transferred to [[United States Coast Guard]] 27 May 1946
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• USCGC Chincoteague (WAVP-375)
  ...sometime between 1949 and the Coast Guard's 1967 adoption of the [[United States Coast Guard#Symbols|"racing stripe"]] markings on its ships. |Ship country=United States
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• USCGC Staten Island (WAGB-278)
  |Ship fate=Turned over to the [[United States Coast Guard]] |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|United States|coast guard}}
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• Barnegat class seaplane tender
  The '''''Barnegat'' class''' was a large class of [[United States Navy]] small [[seaplane tender]]s built during [[World War II]]. Thirty wer Before World War II, the United States Navy foresaw a need for a large force of seaplane tenders in the event of a
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• Sugar beet
  The European Union, the United States, and Russia are the world's three largest sugar beet producers,<ref>[http:/ In the United States, genetically modified sugar beets resistant to [[glyphosate]] (marketed by
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• Arc Welding
  ...ese masks to be used for arc welding, but they were not used in the United States. They may have disappeared.<ref>''Papers of the International Shipyard Heal
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• USCGC Triton (WPC-116)
  |Ship country=[[United States]] |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|United States|coast guard}} {{USN flag|1967}}
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• USS Tacoma (PGM-92)
  ...k = [[Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]] | publisher = [[United States Navy]] }}</ref> The keel of ''Tacoma'' was laid 24 July 1967 at the Tacoma ...urned to Guam on 27 May and commenced preparations to return to the United States.
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• USS PC-1141
  |Ship country={{nowrap|United States}} ...-1141''''' was a {{sclass|PC-461|submarine chaser}} built for the [[United States Navy]] during [[World War II]]. She was renamed '''USS ''Pierre'' (PC-1141)
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• Armstrong Gun
  ...ught iron]] coils which kept the central tube under compression<ref>Holley states that [[Daniel Treadwell]] first patented the concept of a central steel tub ...ng guns. In 1864, even before they had concluded their investigations, the Government stopped the manufacture of Armstrong breech-loaders. When the Committee fin
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• Air Defense Anti-Tank System
  ...t of an extensive competition during which it was selected by the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] for the Forward Area Air-Defense (FAAD)<ref>[http://www.fa In September 2005, the [[Government of Canada|Canadian Government]] and the [[Canadian Forces]] announced a modernization program, transformi
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