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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 Willis (DE-395)
  ...395)''' is an {{Sclass|Edsall|destroyer escort}}, the first United States Navy ship so named. This ship was named for Ensign Walter Michael Willis (14 Jan ...the 6th. The destroyer escort underwent post-shakedown availability in the navy yard there over the ensuing week and sailed on 15 February for the Chesapea
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• USS Fessenden (DE-142)
  ...vided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoys]]. ...e radio telephony|radio-telephony]] were of marked benefit not only to the Navy but to all seamen. He died 22 July 1932, at his home on [[Bermuda]].
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• USS Tomich (DE-242)
  ...vided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoys]]. She was named in honor of [[United States Navy]] Chief Watertender and [[Croats|Croatian]] [[Peter Tomich]] who received t
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• USS Stanton (DE-247)
  ...vided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoy]]s. ...headed for the [[United States]] on 15 December 1943 and arrived safely at New York on 3 January 1944.
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• USS Camp (DE-251)
  |Ship fate=Escaped to the Philippines and transferred to their Navy, 5 April 1976 ...vided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoys]].
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• USS Pope (DE-134)
  |Ship honours=3 Battle Stars plus the [[Presidential Unit Citation (United States)|Presidential Unit Citation]] ...vided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoys]].
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• USS Pillsbury (DE-133)
  |Ship honours=5 [[battle stars]] and a [[Presidential Unit Citation (United States)|Presidential Unit Citation]] ...udly with five [[battle stars]] and a [[Presidential Unit Citation (United States)|Presidential Unit Citation]].
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• USS Absecon (AVP-23)
  |Ship country=United States |Ship namesake=[[Absecon Inlet]] in [[New Jersey]]
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• USCGC Absecon (WAVP-374)
  |Ship country=United States |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|United States|coast guard}}
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• USCGC Unimak (WAVP-379)
  |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|United States|coast guard}} ...to [[U.S. Coast Guard]] 14 September 1948<br/>Permanently transferred from Navy to Coast Guard 26 September 1966
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• USS Unimak (AVP-31)
  ...U.S. Coast Guard]] 14 September 1948<br/>Permanently transferred from U.S. Navy to Coast Guard 26 September 1966<br/>Sunk as [[artificial reef]] after deco |Ship notes=Served as [[United States Coast Guard Cutter|Coast Guard cutter]] [[USCGC Unimak (WAVP-379)|USCGC ''U
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• USS Wainwright (DD-62)
  |Ship country=US Navy ...Wainwright | short = on | accessdate = 25 April 2009 }}</ref><br>[[Camden, New Jersey]]
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• USS Big Horn (AO-45)
  '''USS ''Big Horn'' (AO-45/IX-207)''' was a [[Q-ship]] of the [[United States Navy]] named for the [[Bighorn River]] of [[Wyoming]] and [[Montana]]. ...l 1942. Her conversion began at the [[Bethlehem Shipyard]] in [[Brooklyn, New York]]. She was [[ship commissioning|commissioned]] 15 April 1942, under t
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• USS Downes (DD-45)
  |Ship country=[[United States]] |Ship builder=[[New York Shipbuilding Company]] of [[Camden, New Jersey]]
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• USS Surprise (PG-97)
  |Ship country=United States |Ship fate=Loaned to [[Turkish Navy]] 28 February 1973<br />Sold to [[Turkey]] June 1987<br />Deleted 2000
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• 5"/38 caliber gun
  |origin= United States ...Navy, South Vietnamese Navy, and every navy that bought surplus WWII, U.S. Navy warships
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• Ship gun fire-control systems
  ...ore targets, with or without the aid of radar or optical sighting. Most US ships destroyers or larger (but not destroyer escorts or escort carriers) employe ...DNANCE AND GUNNERY, VOLUME 2 FIRE CONTROL, NAVPERS 10798-A|publisher =U.S. Navy, Bureau of Naval Personnel|date =1958 edition|location =Washington 25, D.C.
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• List of eponyms
  ...nea]]; [[German battleship Bismarck]] as well as two ships of the Imperial Navy (''[[Kaiserliche Marine]]''); [[Bismarck, North Dakota]] ...[[Edison Records]], [[Edisonian approach]], [[Edison, Georgia]], [[Edison, New Jersey]], [[Edisonade]]
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• Extraordinary rendition by the United States
  ...oxy'''" is used by some critics to describe situations in which the United States has transferred suspected terrorists to countries known to practice [[tortu ...|Radio 4's]] [[Today Programme]] 1 April 2006 on the website of the United States Embassy in London</ref>
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