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• USS Wilhoite (DE-397)
  ...all|destroyer escort}} built for the [[United States Navy]] during [[World War II]]. She served in the [[Atlantic Ocean]] and the [[Pacific Ocean]] and pr ==World War II North Atlantic operations==
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• USS Chincoteague (AVP-24)
  |Ship honors=Six [[battle star]]s for [[World War II]] service ...(127-[[millimeter]]) guns<br/>8 x 40-millimeter guns<br/>8 x 20-millimeter guns<br/>2 &times; [[depth charge]] tracks
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• USS Wainwright (DD-62)
  ...than Wainwright, Jr.]] <br/>• [[Richard Wainwright (naval officer, Civil War)|Richard Wainwright]] ...Heritage Command]] | url = http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/w1/wainwright-i.htm | title = Wainwright | short = on | accessdate = 25 April 2009 }}</ref>
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• USS Porter (DD-59)
  ...or the [[United States Navy]] prior to the American entry into [[World War I]]. The ship was the second U.S. Navy vessel named in honor of both [[David ...{{convert|1090|LT|MT}}. She was armed with four {{convert|4|in|cm|adj=on}} guns and had eight {{convert|21|in|mm|adj=on}} [[torpedo tube]]s. ''Porter'' was
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• USS Zuni (ATF-95)
  ...× 3&nbsp;in/50 guns</li><li>2 × twin 40 mm guns</li><li>2 × 20&nbsp;mm guns</li></ul>1990:<ul><li>1 x 3-in .50 caliber</li></ul> ...ait]], on 3 November by Japanese [[submarine]] [[Japanese submarine I-41|''I-41'']]. Though the cruiser nearly capsized, the ships’ companies of ''Zun
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• USS Downes (DD-45)
  |Ship armament=4 × {{convert|4|in|mm|abbr=on}}/50 cal guns, 8 × {{convert|18|in|mm|abbr=on}} [[torpedo tube]]s ...n''-class]] [[destroyer]] in the [[United States Navy]] during [[World War I]]. She was later transferred to the [[United States Coast Guard]], where sh
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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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• USS PC-1168
  ...=1 × 3/50&nbsp;inch gun, <br/> 1 × 40&nbsp;mm gun, <br/> 3 × 20&nbsp;mm guns, <br/> 2 × rocket launchers, <br/> 4 × depth charge projectiles, <br/> 2 ...461|submarine chaser}} built for the [[United States Navy]] during [[World War II]]. ''PC-1168'' is notable for being the ship on which the film ''[[You'r
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• Armstrong Gun
  ...tai 1868.jpg|thumb|Armstrong gun deployed by [[Japan]] during the [[Boshin war]] (1868–69).]] ...ign of the [[Rifled breech-loader|rifling breech-loading]] field and heavy guns designed by [[William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong|Sir William Arm
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• 25 mm Hotchkiss anti-aircraft gun
  |wars= Second World War ...[autocannon]] designed by the French firm of Hotchkiss. It served in World War II with French, Japanese and other nations' forces. Other than the designer
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• 15 cm Schnelladekanone L/45
  |wars=World War I, World War II ...ing gun)) 45 caliber) was a German naval gun used in World War I and World War II.
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• Vickers 10 inch /45 naval gun
  |wars= [[World War I]] ...anese Navy, and was of a very similar design to the Vickers-built Mark VII guns produced initially for the [[Chilean Navy]] and later used in [[Royal Navy]
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• 12"/45 caliber Mark 5 gun
  ...Russian 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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• 12"/50 caliber gun (Argentina)
  |wars=[[World War I]], [[World War II]] The guns were manufactured at the [[Bethlehem Steel|Bethlehem Steel Corporation]].<r
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• 120 mm M1 gun
  |wars= [[World War II]] and [[Korean War]] ...it had been designed to be mobile and saw some action during the [[Korean War]]. The 120 was phased out quite quickly in the 1950s with the introduction
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• 13.2 mm Hotchkiss machine gun
  |wars= [[Second World War]] ...and manufactured by [[Hotchkiss et Cie]] from the late 1920s until [[World War II]] where it saw service with various nation's forces, including Japan whe
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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/25
  |wars=[[Second World War]] ...no weapons of this type surplus appear to have been used as coast-defense guns.
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• 20 cm/50 3rd Year Type naval gun
  |wars=[[Second World War]] ...rrier]]s.<ref name="Campbell"/> The typical installation was ten 20 cm/50 guns; although [[Tone class cruiser|''Tone'']] class cruisers carried eight whil
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• 20 mm Becker
  ...; the only German autocannon to actually see service in the air during the war. ...0 Becker Type M2 guns in June 1916. In addition to the orders for aircraft guns placed with Becker, Spandau and MAN also received a contract to build Becke
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• 14"/45 caliber gun
  |wars= World War II ..., 3, and 5, and later as the Mark 8, 9, 10, and 12, were the first 14-inch guns to be employed with the [[United States Navy]]. They were installed aboard
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• 3"/23 caliber gun
  |wars= World War I ...ti-aircraft]] gun for [[United States]] [[destroyers]] through [[World War I]] and the 1920s. United States naval gun terminology indicates the gun fir
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• 305mm/45 Modèle 1906 gun
  |image=[[Image:Dreanoughts Danton-Main guns.jpg|300px|]] |caption=Main guns of the [[French battleship Danton|''Danton'']]
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• 320 mm Model 1934 naval gun
  |wars=[[Second World War]] ...carried two 548-tonne twin turrets and two 745-tonne triple turrets. All guns used pneumatically operated side-swing [[Welin breech block]]s. Each barre
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• 37 mm automatic air defense gun M1939 (61-K)
  |wars=[[Vietnam War]], [[Cambodian Civil War]] ...fulness against lightly armored ground targets. Crews of the 37&nbsp;mm AD guns shot down 14,657 Axis planes<ref name="ReferenceA">Shunkov V. N. - ''The We
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• 4"/50 caliber gun
  ...[[first American shots fired in World War II|first American shot of World War II]] at [[Attack on Pearl Harbor|Pearl Harbor]] on 7 December 1941 |wars= [[World War I]] [[World War II]]
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• 4.5 inch Mark 8 naval gun
  |wars=[[Falklands war]] ...libre [[QF 4.5 inch Mk I - V naval gun]]s. Like all British 4.5 inch naval guns, it actually has a calibre of 4.45 inches (113 mm)<ref name=Janes1999>Jane'
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• 4.7 inch QF Mark XII
  ...uzzle velocity of 2650fps (808m/s).<ref>Campbell, ''Naval Weapons of World War Two'', p48.</ref> The 40 degree elevation was justified on the grounds that [[Category:Naval anti-aircraft guns]]
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• 40 cm/45 Type 94
  |wars= [[World War II]] ...ever mounted on any warship. They were actually 46&nbsp;cm (18.1&nbsp;in) guns, but were designated 40&nbsp;cm in an effort to hide their true size.
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• 5"/51 caliber gun
  |wars= World War I, World War II '''5"/51 caliber guns''' (spoken "five-inch-fifty-one-caliber") formed the main battery of the fi
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• 7.5 cm L/45 M/16 anti aircraft gun
  |era=[[World War I]] - [[World War II]] |wars= [[World War II]]
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• 7.5 cm L/45 M/32 anti aircraft gun
  |era=[[World War II]] |wars= [[World War II]]
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• 85 mm air defense gun M1939 (52-K)
  ...r the war some 52-Ks were refitted for peaceful purposes as anti-avalanche guns in a mountainous terrain. ...mm air defense gun KS-19|100]] and [[130 mm air defense gun KS-30|130 mm]] guns.
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• 9 cm kanon PL vz. 12/20
  |wars=[[World War II]] ...e taken into [[Wehrmacht]] service as the ''9&nbsp;cm Flak M 12(t)''. Some guns were reportedly captured in [[Yugoslavia]] and the [[Soviet Union]] as well
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• BL 12 inch Mk XI – XII naval gun
  |image=[[File:HMS Vanguard aft guns USNHC NH 52619.jpg|300px]] |caption=Aft Mk XI guns of [[HMS Vanguard (1909)|HMS ''Vanguard'']]
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• BL 12 inch Mk X naval gun
  |wars=[[World War I]] ....jpg|thumb|left|<center>[[HMS Agamemnon (1906)|HMS ''Agamemnon'']] has her guns replaced during a refit at Malta in May-June 1915</center>]]
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• BL 12 inch naval gun Mk I – VII
  |name= Ordnance BL 12 inch gun Mk I - VII |image=[[Image:HMS Conqueror Forecastle Guns Clipped300px.jpg|300px]]
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• BL 12 inch naval gun Mk VIII
  ...tion=Crewmen of [[HMS Goliath (1898)|HMS ''Goliath'']] photographed before guns |wars=[[World War I]]
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• BL 13.5 inch Mk V naval gun
  |caption=Aft guns of [[HMS Emperor of India (1913)|HMS ''Emperor of India'']] |wars=[[World War I]]<br>[[World War II]]
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• BL 14 inch Mk VII naval gun
  ...] were also mounted as [[coastal artillery]] near [[Dover]]. A total of 78 guns were made. **2 gun turret Mark I (900.5 Metric tonnes, up to 40 degree elevation)
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• BL 15 inch Mk I naval gun
  |name= BL 15 inch Mark I ...epresenting the loading cycle of the Mark I turret for the BL 15 inch Mark I.
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• BL 16 inch Mk I naval gun
  |name=Ordnance BL 16 inch Mark I |caption=Guns of HMS Rodney at maximum elevation, 1940
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• BL 18 inch Mk I naval gun
  | name = 18 inch Mark I | wars = [[World War I]]
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• BL 4.7 inch /45 naval gun
  |wars= [[World War I]] [[World War II]] |variants=Mk I, Mk II
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• BL 4 inch Mk IX naval gun
  |wars= [[World War I]]<br>[[World War II]] ...1919/B_Ships/Renown_Cl_62.html Jane's Fighting Ships 1919, page 62]</ref>. Guns were thereafter used in single-gun mountings, typically on smaller ships as
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• BL 4 inch naval gun Mk VII
  ...bres]])<ref name=Handbook1913>HANDBOOK for the 4" Mark VII. and VIII. B.L. Guns 1913</ref> ...ordite MD size 16 propellant. HANDBOOK for the 4" Mark VII. and VIII. B.L. Guns 1913.</ref>
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• BL 4 inch naval gun Mk VIII
  ...bres]])<ref name=Handbook1913>HANDBOOK for the 4" Mark VII. and VIII. B.L. Guns 1913</ref> ...ordite MD size 16 propellant. HANDBOOK for the 4" Mark VII. and VIII. B.L. Guns 1913.</ref>
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• BL 5.5 inch Mark I naval gun
  |name= BL 5.5 inch Mark I ...f [[HMS Chester (1915)|HMS ''Chester'''s]] 5.5 inch guns at the [[Imperial War Museum]], London
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• BL 6 inch Mk VII naval gun
  |wars=[[World War I]], [[World War II]] ...{convert|20|lb|abbr=on}} of the more powerful cordite Mk I size 20, but Mk I caused greater wear</ref>.
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• BL 6 inch Mk XII naval gun
  |wars=[[World War I]] [[World War II]] ...oz cordite MD size 19 propellant was the figure used in range tables. New guns were quoted with a muzzle velocity of 2,845 feet per second. Handbook, 1917
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