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• USS Wilhoite (DE-397)
  ...destroyer escort}} built for the [[United States Navy]] during [[World War II]]. She served in the [[Atlantic Ocean]] and the [[Pacific Ocean]] and provi ==World War II North Atlantic operations==
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• USS Peterson (DE-152)
  == World War II service == ...er activity to [[Northern Europe]], making ten voyages to [[United Kingdom|British]] and [[France|French]] ports. On the first of these voyages, ''Peterson''
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• USS Savage (DE-386)
  ...lass]] [[destroyer escort]] built for the [[U.S. Navy]] during [[World War II]]. ...scar C. Rohnke, USCG. On 18 November, 1943, she was underway for Bermuda, British West Indies, for her shakedown cruise.
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• USS Haverfield (DE-393)
  ...lass]] [[destroyer escort]] built for the [[U.S. Navy]] during [[World War II]]. She served in the [[Atlantic Ocean]] and the [[Pacific Ocean]] and provi ==World War II North Atlantic operations==
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• USS Bering Strait (AVP-34)
  |Ship honors=Three [[battle star]]s for [[World War II]] service ...Pacific War|Pacific]] in combat areas and earned three [[battle stars]] by war’s end.
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• USS Unimak (AVP-31)
  ...4 x 40-millimeter [[antiaircraft]] guns<br/>8 x 20-millimeter antiaircraft guns<br/>2 x [[depth charge]] tracks<br/>2 x [[Mousetrap (weapon)|Mousetrap]] [[ ==World War II service==
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• USS Barataria (AVP-33)
  |Ship honors=One [[battle star]] for [[World War II]] service ...ightings Ships'' entry (see http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/b2/barataria-ii.htm) entry.</ref> 1970 and scrapped
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• USS Willoughby (AGP-9)
  |Ship honors=Three [[battle star]]s for her [[World War II]] service ...8 x 40-millimeter [[antiaircraft]] guns<br/>8 x 20-millimeter antiaircraft guns<br/>2 x [[depth charge]] tracks
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• USS Porter (DD-59)
  ...& Heritage Command]] | url = http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/p10/porter-ii.htm | title = Porter | short = on | accessdate = 23 April 2009 }}</ref><br> ...an Naval Fighting Ships]]'' ([http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/p10/porter-ii.htm link]) reports, without explanation, four.</ref>
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• USS Big Horn (AO-45)
  ...) /50 single purpose guns, <br/>• two .50 caliber (12.7&nbsp;mm) machine guns, <br/>• five [[Thompson submachine gun]]s, <br/>• five sawn-off [[shotg ...had become the center of an international incident at the beginning of the war, and was later sunk by a [[U-boat]].
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• USS Manhasset (AG-47)
  ...in the dangerous North [[Atlantic Ocean]], but returned home safely after war’s end. ==World War II operations ==
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• 8.8 cm FlaK 18/36/37/41
  [[Image:2001gun88mmwiki.jpg|thumb|88 mm display at Imperial War Museum Duxford, 2001]] ...s of the war. Developments of the original models led to a wide variety of guns.
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• ADEN cannon
  ...m [[cannon]] used on many [[military aircraft]], particularly those of the British [[Royal Air Force]] and [[Fleet Air Arm]]. ...d service on the [[Hawker Hunter]] in 1954, and subsequently used on every British gun-armed aircraft until the advent of the [[Panavia Tornado]] in the 1980s
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• AA Mine Discharger
  ...Discharger''' was a Japanese [[anti-aircraft]] weapon of the Second World War. The device was a simple tube like an [[infantry mortar]] of 70&nbsp;mm or *[[Unrotated Projectile]] a British rocket launched parachute aerial mine system for ship defence.
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• 15 cm Schnelladekanone L/45
  |wars=World War I, World War II ...gun)) 45 caliber) was a German naval gun used in World War I and World War II.
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• Vickers Model 1931
  |wars=[[World War II]] ...nion used those guns it captured from Lithuania. Supposedly it saw limited British service with Home Defense "barrage units" 1940—43.<ref>Gander and Chamber
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• Vickers S
  | era=Second World War | wars=Second World War
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• 12"/45 caliber Mark 5 gun
  ...sian Civil War|Russian Civil War]]<br>[[Greco-Turkish War]]<br>[[World War II]] ''As coastal artillery'' [[Image:USS Delaware Mark 5s.jpg|left|thumb|After six Mark 5 guns aboard [[USS Delaware (BB-28)|USS ''Delaware'']], circa 1913.]]
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• 14"/50 caliber gun
  ...class battleship [[USS Idaho (BB-42)]] in 1920, showing six 14"/50 caliber guns |wars= World War II
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• 15 cm SK C/28
  ...t from [[German warship Gneisenau (1936)|Gneisenau]] used as coast-defense guns in [[Denmark]] |wars=[[Second World War]]
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