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• USS Holder (DE-401)
  |Ship fate=Irreparably damaged by German aircraft on 11 April 1944 ...destroyer escort]] built for the [[United States Navy]] during [[World War II]]. Named for Lieutenant (junior grade) [[Randolph Mitchell Holder]] (a nava
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• USS Stanton (DE-247)
  ...s|Edsall|destroyer escort}} built for the [[U.S. Navy]] during [[World War II]]. She served in the [[Atlantic Ocean]] the [[Pacific Ocean]] and provided == World War II North Atlantic operations==
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• USS Swasey (DE-248)
  ...ass|Edsall|destroyer escort}} built for the [[U.S. Navy]] during World War II. She served in the Atlantic Ocean the Pacific Ocean and provided destroyer == World War II North Atlantic operations==
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• USS Joyce (DE-317)
  ...s|Edsall|destroyer escort}} built for the [[U.S. Navy]] during [[World War II]]. She served in the [[Atlantic Ocean]] the [[Pacific Ocean]] and provided == World War II North Atlantic operations==
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• USS Mosley (DE-321)
  ...s|Edsall|destroyer escort}} built for the [[U.S. Navy]] during [[World War II]]. She served in the [[Atlantic Ocean]] the [[Pacific Ocean]] and provided ...[Silver Star]] for his heroic actions during the early months of World War II. She was laid down by [[Consolidated Steel]] Corporation of [[Orange, Texas
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• USS Lowe (DE-325)
  ...gainst [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoys]]. Post-war she was converted and served the Navy as a weather ship and then as a radar == World War II North Atlantic operations==
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• USS Newell (DE-322)
  ...gainst [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoys]]. Post war, she served in various capacities before being finally decommissioned. == World War II North Atlantic operations==
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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 Swenning (DE-394)
  ...s|Edsall|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 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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• Edsall class destroyer escort
  ...the ships participated in [[Operation Dragoon]] and two were attacked by [[German missiles of WW2|guided missile]]s used by the Germans. ...E-401)|DE-401 USS ''Holder'']] - damaged April 11, 1944 off [[Algiers]] by German aircraft
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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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• USS Muskeget (AG-48)
  ...h loss of all crew members; it was later determined she had been sunk by a German [[submarine]]. == World War II service ==
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• USS Bangor (PF-16)
  ...caliber gun]]s (3×1)<br />• 4 × 40 mm guns (2×2)<br />• 9 × 20 mm guns (9×1)<br />• 1 × [[Hedgehog (weapon)|Hedgehog]] [[anti-submarine mortar ''Bangor'' returned to the United States with another convoy. A German [[U-boat]] attacked the Allied ships two days out of Oran. ''Bangor'' joine
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• 20 ITK 40 VKT
  | wars = [[Continuation War]]<br>[[Lapland War]] ...ce weapon used by the [[Finnish Army]] during World War II. A total of 174 guns were built, used in training until 1970s and kept in reserve until 1988. T
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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
  ...rench [[DEFA cannon]] and American [[M39 cannon]]) on the mechanism of the German [[Mauser MG 213]]C, an experimental [[revolver cannon]] designed for the '' [[Category:Aircraft guns]]
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• 25 mm Hotchkiss anti-aircraft gun
  |wars= Second World War ...ocannon]] designed by the French firm of Hotchkiss. It served in World War II with French, Japanese and other nations' forces. Other than the designer co
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• 15 cm Schnelladekanone L/45
  |image=[[File:German gun from SMS Bremse - geograph.org.uk - 118942.jpg|300px]] |wars=World War I, World War II
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• Volkov-Yartsev VYa-23
  | wars = [[World War II]] ...mm|abbr=on}} [[autocannon]] used on [[Soviet]] aircraft during [[World War II]].
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• Vickers Model 1931
  |wars=[[World War II]] ...35(h)'' or ''7.5&nbsp;cm Flak (d)''. Similarly the Soviet Union used those guns it captured from Lithuania. Supposedly it saw limited British service with
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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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• 15 cm SK C/25
  |caption=15 cm SK C/25 in Drh LC/35 turret on [[German cruiser Nürnberg|''Nürnberg'']] |wars=[[Second World War]]
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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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• 20.3 cm SK C/34 naval gun
  ...seen aboard ''Admiral Hipper'' was the standard mounting of 20 cm SK C/34 guns. |wars=[[Second World War]]
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• 3.7 cm FlaK 43
  | wars = [[World War II]] ...nnon fell into gradual disuse, being replaced by existing 40-mm [[Bofors]] guns, and later, 35-mm anti-aircraft pieces produced by [[Switzerland]].
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• 3.7 cm SK C/30
  |wars=[[Second World War]] .... It was superseded by the fully-automatic [[3.7 cm Flak M43]] late in the war.
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• 203mm/50 Modèle 1924 gun
  |image=[[Image:Colbert-1-Main guns.jpg|200px|]] |caption=Main guns of the [[French cruiser Colbert (1928)|''Colbert'']]
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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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• 28 cm SK C/28 naval gun
  The German '''28&nbsp;cm C/28 naval gun''' was a 283&nbsp;mm 52-[[Caliber#Caliber as m ...<center>Adolf Hitler and other senior German staff below the aft guns of [[German pocket battleship Deutschland|''Deutschland'']] in April 1934</center>]]
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• 28 cm SK C/34 naval gun
  The German '''28 cm C/34 naval gun''' was a 283 mm 54.5-[[Caliber#Caliber as measureme ...tra and mounted on Fjell festning.jpg|thumb|right|300px|<center>Gun from [[German warship Gneisenau (1936)|''Gneisenau'']] being unloaded in Bergen, Norway,
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• 10.5 cm FlaK 38
  |wars=[[World War II]] [[Image:German 105 mm Flak 38 anti-aircraft gun.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Two views of a Flak
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• 12.8 cm FlaK 40
  |image=[[Image:German 12.8 cm Flak 40 - static mount.jpg|300px]] |wars=[[World War II]]
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• 203 mm /53 Italian naval gun
  ...mounting of 203 cm/53 [[Caliber#Caliber as measurement of length|caliber]] guns. |wars=[[Second World War]]
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• 2 cm FlaK 30
  |wars=[[Second World War]] ...ious German forces throughout the [[Second World War]]. It was the primary German light anti-aircraft gun and was produced in a variety of models, notably th
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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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• 38 cm SK C/34 naval gun
  |wars=[[World War II]] ...nshtadt''-class]] battlecruisers, however they were never delivered. Spare guns were used as [[coastal artillery]] in [[Denmark]], [[Norway]] and [[France]
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• 4.2 cm Pak 41
  ...ti-tank gun]] issued to German [[Luftwaffe|airborne units]] in [[World War II]]. This gun was externally similar to the [[PaK 36]], and used a modified v ...ncyclopedic Survey of All Small Arms, Artillery and Special Weapons of the German Land Forces 1939-1945''. New York: Doubleday, 1979 ISBN 0-385-15090-3
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• 45 mm anti-aircraft gun (21-K)
  |wars=[[Second World War]], [[Cold War]] ...' gun from 1942—3. It was used in [[World War II]] and during the [[Cold War]] as the Soviets exported their WWII-era ships to their friends and allies.
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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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• 7.5 cm kanon PL vz. 37
  |wars=[[World War II]] ...//www.jaegerplatoon.net/AA_GUNS3.htm|title=ANTIAIRCRAFT GUNS PART 3: Heavy Guns|date=23 September 2007|accessdate=2009-05-22}}</ref> Twelve were in Luftwaf
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• 8"/55 caliber gun
  |wars= [[World War II]]<br/>[[Korean War]]<br/>[[Vietnam War]] These simplified built-up guns eliminated hoops to reduce weight to 17 tons. The breech mechanism was sim
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• 8.35 cm PL kanon vz. 22
  |wars=[[World War II]] ...><ref name=k>Kliment and Nakládal, p. 124</ref> One hundred seven were in German service in August 1943, declining to twenty by October 1944.<ref>Gander and
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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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• 8 cm PL kanon vz. 37
  |wars=[[World War II]] ...gun used during the [[Second World War]]. Those weapons captured after the German occupation of [[Czechoslovakia]] in March [[1939]] were taken into [[Wehrma
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• 90 mm Gun M1/M2/M3
  |era=WW II |wars=[[World War II|Second World War]]
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