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• Choosing a retreat
  ...ess of where you are. Persons of semi-condition can hump 10 to 15 miles a day without problems. Persons of good condition can hump 15 to 20 plus miles a day without problems.
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• Fallout shelter
  ...hen work outside for gradually increasing amounts of time, to four hours a day at three weeks. The normal work is to sweep or wash fallout into shallow t ...[[potassium iodide]] at the rate of 130 mg/day per adult (65 mg/day per child) as an additional measure to protect the human thyroid gland from
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• Quartermaster Corps (United States Army)
  ...s the first blood spilled that day. I jumped in darkness into Normandy, D-Day plus 1. Bataan, North Africa, Sicily. I was there. The 'chutes that fill
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• United States Navy Hospital Corpsman
  ...Second ClassJohn Bradley among the group of Marines on Mt. Suribachi that day. They also served on thousands of ships and submarines. Notably, three unas
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• 1983 Beirut barracks bombing
  ...liest single-day death toll for the United States military since the first day of the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War, and the deadliest single attac ...United States military since the 243 killed on January 31, 1968, the first day of the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War. The attack remains the deadlie
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• USS Dale W. Peterson (DE-337)
  ...the war in the Pacific was fast coming to a close and on 2 September, the day of signing of the [[Japan]]ese surrender, ''Dale W. Peterson'' was ordered
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• USS Willis (DE-395)
  ...he merchantman {{SS|Exanthia}} to Hampton Roads where she arrived the next day. That day, the task group put to sea for operations in the Central Atlantic that took
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• USS Menges (DE-320)
  ...torpedo]] from [[Unterseeboot 371|U-371]] (which was in turn sunk the next day by [[USS Joseph E. Campbell (DE-70)|USS ''Joseph E. Campbell'' (DE-70)]], [ ...iving [[Boston, Massachusetts]] the 17th. By [[Navy Day#United States|Navy Day]], 27 October, ''Menges'' was moored at [[Fall River]], below Boston.
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• USS Frederick C. Davis (DE-136)
  ...rom the water within 3 hours, and other escorts sank her attacker the same day.
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• USS Jacob Jones (DE-130)
  ...ade [[rendezvous]] 13 May with 44 merchant ships and 17 escorts for the 10-day passage to Northern Ireland and returned to New York 8 June with a westboun Three weeks and a day after Germany's unconditional surrender, ''Jacob Jones'' departed Southampt
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• USS Herbert C. Jones (DE-137)
  ...t major action as she arrived off the [[France|French]] coast 16 August, D-day plus one, to support [[Operation Dragoon]], the invasion of southern France ...]] patrol in the Atlantic out of Norfolk. Remaining on this duty until V-E Day, ''Herbert C. Jones'' sailed for the Pacific 24 June 1945 after training ex
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• USS Farquhar (DE-139)
  ''Farquhar'' arrived at [[Norfolk, Virginia]], 3 October 1943, and next day sailed on the first of three convoy escort voyages to [[Casablanca]]. She r
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• USS Huse (DE-145)
  ...is convoy safely to [[Casablanca]], she returned to [[New York]] Christmas Day 1943. Following training exercises off [[Norfolk, Virginia]], ''Huse'' esco
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• USS Blair (DE-147)
  ...and [[Delaware]] sections of GUS-24 to [[Chesapeake Bay]] on [[New Year's Day]] 1944. ''Blair'' then sailed to New York for upkeep. After refresher train ...(DE-148)]] and [[USS Jacob Jones (DE-130)]] and arrived there on the last day of July.
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• USS Tomich (DE-242)
  ...s]], on 12 August and reached [[New Orleans, Louisiana]], on the following day. The destroyer escort departed [[Louisiana]] waters on the 19th, bound for ...urned to [[Cuba]]. Upon her arrival back at Guantánamo Bay later the same day, 17 October, she received orders to search for [[USS Dorado (SS-248)]] whic
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• USS Otterstetter (DE-244)
  ...rived there on 2 December 1943 and returned to [[New York]] on [[Christmas Day]]. She made a convoy escort voyage to Casablanca in February 1944. ...]an waters, she proceeded to [[Saipan]], arriving 29 August. The following day she sailed for [[Iwo Jima]], arriving on 1 September 1945.
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• USS Stanton (DE-247)
  ...[[Landing Ship, Tank|LST]]'s were hit. The convoy reached Bizerte the next day, and ''Stanton'' returned to New York with convoy GUS-37.
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• USS Swasey (DE-248)
  ...rces near [[Donaldsville, Louisiana]], on 4 October 1862 and died the same day. ...er provisioning on the 12th, moved to [[New Orleans, Louisiana]], the next day. She stood out of New Orleans on 14 September en route to [[Bermuda]] for h
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• USS Pettit (DE-253)
  After [[V-E Day]], ''Pettit'' proceeded via [[Guantanamo Bay, Cuba]], the [[Panama Canal]],
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• USS Ricketts (DE-254)
  ...ed on the 14th, but ''Ricketts'' delayed her departure until the following day to wait for two late-loading merchant ships. ...[[Panama Canal]] 7 July. She called at [[San Diego, California]], for a 5-day visit and departed 20 July, steaming independently for [[Pearl Harbor]] and
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