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• USS Wilhoite (DE-397)
  ...E-397)''' was an {{sclass|Edsall|destroyer escort}} built for the [[United States Navy]] during [[World War II]]. She served in the [[Atlantic Ocean]] and th ...returned to the [[United States]] with Convoy GUS (Gibraltar to the United States) 33 and arrived at [[New York City]] on 3 April.
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• USS Savage (DE-386)
  ...ched July 15, 1943; and commissioned on October 29, 1943 manned by a Coast Guard crew under the command of Lieutenant Commander Oscar C. Rohnke, USCG. On 1 ...ce was engaged in escorting convoys of 60 to 80 merchant ships from United States ports to the Mediterranean Theatre.
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• USS Haverfield (DE-393)
  ...1944, the hunter-killer group, aided by a [[Canadian]] [[corvette]] and [[United Kingdom|British]] aircraft, sank [[U-575]] on the 23rd of March. With some ...oy escort duty from [[Saipan]] to [[Okinawa]]. She patrolled the [[China]] coast and then streamed her homeward-bound [[Pennant (commissioning)|pennant]], r
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• USCGC Absecon (WAVP-374)
  |Ship country=United States |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|United States|coast guard}}
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• USS Wainwright (DD-62)
  |Ship fate=transferred to U.S. Coast Guard, 2 April 1926<ref name=DANFS /> |Ship acquired=returned from U.S. Coast Guard, 27 April 1934<ref name=DANFS />
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• USS Porter (DD-59)
  |Ship fate=transferred to U.S. Coast Guard, 7 June 1924<ref name=DANFS /> |Ship acquired=returned from U.S. Coast Guard, 30 June 1933<ref name=USCG />
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• USS Tucumcari (PGH-2)
  |Ship country=United States ...transferred to the Atlantic Fleet in August. After operating off the east coast into 1971, ''Tucumcari'' was slated to deploy to northern [[Europe]] and to
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• 3"/50 caliber gun
  |origin= {{flag|United States}} ...k numbers) of this caliber were used by the [[U.S. Navy]] and [[U.S. Coast Guard]] from 1915<ref name="dg"/> through the 1990s on a variety of combatant and
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• 5"/38 caliber gun
  |origin= United States |used_by= US Navy, US Coast Guard, Royal Navy, Danish Navy, Italian Navy, Japanese Navy, South Vietnamese Nav
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• 5"/51 caliber gun
  |origin= United States |used_by= US Navy, US Coast Guard, Royal Navy
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• Bofors 40 mm
  ...eapons without any supporting evidence. It should be pointed out these two weapons are quite different from each other and share few, if any, features. ...r the land based versions were immediate, starting with an order for eight weapons from Belgium in August 1935, and followed by a flood of orders from other f
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• Dahlgren gun
  ...oat howitzers were manned by Company I of the [[71st Regiment, NY National Guard]]. The unit had trained on boat howitzers while deployed at Washington D.C ...s expeditions. The unit participated in 16 raids along the North Carolina coast employing their boat howitzers. The New York Marine Artillery was issued t
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• M242 Bushmaster
  | origin = [[United States]] ...ace it started in 1972 at [[Hughes Aircraft]] as the '''Vehicle Rapid-Fire Weapons System-Successor''', or '''VRFWS-S'''. This was essentially a power-driven
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• M2 Browning machine gun
  |origin= {{flag|United States}} ...e War]] <br>[[Falklands War]] <br>[[South African Border War]]<br>[[United States invasion of Panama]] <br>[[Gulf War]] <br>[[Somali Civil War]] <br>[[Operat
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• Mk 110 57 mm gun
  ...ent and proposed mounting for the weapon include the [[United States Coast Guard]]'s [[National Security Cutter]], the upcoming [[Zumwalt class]] destroyer, [[Category:Naval guns of the United States]]
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• Mousetrap (weapon)
  ...ted States Navy|U.S. Navy]]{{Fact|date=October 2008}} and the [[U.S. Coast Guard]].<ref name=uscg> | publisher =US Coast Guard
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• Otobreda 76 mm
  *[http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNUS_3-62_mk75.htm Italian 76 mm/62 (3") Compact, SR and USA 76 mm/62 (3") [[Category:Modern German weapons]]
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• Phalanx CIWS
  | origin = United States ...e="navweaps">{{cite web|author=Tony DiGiulian |url=http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNUS_Phalanx.htm |title=USA 20 mm Phalanx Close-in Weapon System (CIWS) |pu
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• Ship gun fire-control systems
  ...echanical fuze ammunition per kill, even in late 1944.<ref>Campbell, Naval Weapons of WW2, P106</ref> |title = Older weapons hold own in high-tech war
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• Organized crime
  ...it (economics)|profit]]. The ''[[Organized Crime Control Act]]'' ([[United States|U.S.]], 1970) defines organized crime as "The unlawful activities of [...] ...ed in [[Sicily]], known to its members as [[Cosa Nostra]]. In the [[United States]], "the Mafia" generally refers to the [[American Mafia|Italian American Ma
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