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  • ...1 and remained through the [[American Civil War|Civil War]]. Following the war, the title Surgeon's Steward was abolished in favor of [[Apothecary]], a po ...lobbied the Navy administration to take action. With the Spanish-American War looming, Congress passed a bill authorizing establishment of the U.S. Navy
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  • ...bombing''' (October 23, 1983 in Beirut, Lebanon) during the Lebanese Civil War, two [[truck bomb]]s struck separate buildings housing [[Military of the Un ...War, and the deadliest single attack on Americans overseas since World War II.<ref name=HouseReport>{{cite web|accessdate=2007-09-30
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  • ...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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  • ...lass]] [[destroyer escort]] built for the [[U.S. Navy]] during [[World War II]]. ...tactics, maneuvering, and the hundreds of other tasks demanded of a man-o-war.
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  • ...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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  • ...& 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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  • |wars= World War II ...avy]] used during World War II. Its design was derived from a German World War I design. It was used on the minelaying-cruiser ''Pluton'', the destroyers
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  • | wars = [[Continuation War]]<br>[[Lapland War]] ...ive 20 mm air defence 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
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  • [[Image:2001gun88mmwiki.jpg|thumb|88 mm display at Imperial War Museum Duxford, 2001]] ...battlefield, making it one of the most recognizable German weapons of the war. Developments of the original models led to a wide variety of guns.
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  • |wars= First World War, Second World War ...tillery after the ships were broken up, and served during the Second World War.
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  • ...[Hispano-Suiza HS.404]] 20 mm cannon used in British aircraft of World War II. It is based (as are the French [[DEFA cannon]] and American [[M39 cannon]] ...o 1,500–1,700 rounds per minute. No new Mk 5s were built, but many older weapons were converted, being redesignated '''Mk 5 Straden'''.
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  • |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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  • |wars= [[World War II]] [[Category:World War II naval weapons]]
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  • | wars = [[World War II]] ...mm|abbr=on}} [[autocannon]] used on [[Soviet]] aircraft during [[World War II]].
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  • |wars=[[World War II]] ...T 3: Heavy Guns|date=23 September 2007|accessdate=2009-05-22}}</ref> Those weapons captured after the German conquest of Europe were taken into [[Wehrmacht]]
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  • | era=Second World War | wars=Second World War
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  • |wars=[[World War I]], [[World War II]] ...e = Argentina - 12"/50 (30.5 cm) Bethlehem | url = http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNARG_12-50_Bethlehem.htm | publisher = Navweaps.com | accessdate = 22 Febr
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  • |wars= [[World War II]] ...destroyers ceded to the [[Soviet Union]] and the [[Republic of China]] as war reparations, the last of which was scrapped in 1970 after running aground i
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  • |wars= [[Second World War]] ...manufactured by [[Hotchkiss et Cie]] from the late 1920s until [[World War II]] where it saw service with various nation's forces, including Japan where
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  • |wars=[[Second World War]] ...lass]] and [[Leipzig class cruiser|''Leipzig''-class cruisers]]. Oddly, no weapons of this type surplus appear to have been used as coast-defense guns.
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  • |wars=[[Second World War]] ...ps]] and the [[Graf Zeppelin class aircraft carrier]]. A number of surplus weapons were used as coast-defense guns and eight were adapted to use Army carriage
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  • |wars= World War II ...States of America 16"/50 (40.6 cm) Mark 7 | url = http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNUS_16-50_mk7.htm | publisher = Navweaps.com | date = 7 February 2008 | ac
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  • |wars=[[Second World War]] ...gun''' was the main battery gun used on all [[Germany|German]] [[World War II]] [[heavy cruiser]]s.
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  • | wars = [[World War II]] ...t flying at altitudes of 4200 meters<ref>Hogg, ''German Artillery of World War Two''</ref> and lower. The cannon was produced in both towed and self-prop
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  • |wars=[[Second World War]] .... It was superseded by the fully-automatic [[3.7 cm Flak M43]] late in the war.
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  • |wars=[[Second World War]] ...ht=20 tonnes<ref name="Campbell">{{cite book| title=Naval Weapons of World War Two |author=Campbell, John |publisher=Naval Institute Press |year=1985 |id=
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  • |wars=[[Second World War]] ...ht=22 tonnes<ref name="Campbell">{{cite book| title=Naval Weapons of World War Two |author=Campbell, John |publisher=Naval Institute Press |year=1985 |id=
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  • |wars=[[Second World War]] ...ength|caliber]] guns''' formed the main battery of [[Japan]]'s [[World War II]] [[heavy cruiser]]s. These guns were also mounted on two early [[aircraft
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  • ...g armour-piercing projectile :<ref>Tony diGiulian, http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNGER_11-52_skc28.htm</ref> ...Tony| title = German 28 cm/52 (11") SK C/28 | url=http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNGER_11-52_skc28.htm| publisher = Navweaps.com| date = 13 October 2006| ac
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  • ...= Tony| title = Netherlands 28 cm/54.5 (11")| url=http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNNeth_11-545.htm| publisher = Navweaps.com| date = 09 October 2006| access ...ony| title = German 28 cm/54.5 (11") SK C/34 | url=http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNGER_11-545_skc34.htm| publisher = Navweaps.com| date = 13 October 2006| a
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  • |wars=[[World War II]] ...cm SK C/33''' was a German [[anti-aircraft gun]] used during [[World War II]] by the [[Kriegsmarine]] on a number of their larger capital ships. It was
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  • |wars=[[World War II]] ...e = United States of America 12"/50 Mark 8 | url = http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNUS_12-50_mk8.htm | publisher = Navweaps.com | accessdate = 7 January 2009
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  • |wars=[[World War II]] The '''12.8&nbsp;cm FlaK 40''', was a [[Germany|German]] [[World War II]] [[Anti-aircraft warfare|anti-aircraft]] gun built as the successor to the
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  • |wars= World War II ...tle = 14"/45 (35.6 cm) Marks 1, 2, 3 and 5 | url = http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNUS_14-45_mk1.htm | publisher = Navweaps.com | date = 2008-03-27 | access
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  • |wars= [[World War II]] [[Category:World War II naval weapons]]
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  • |wars=[[World War II]]<br>[[Korean War]]<br>[[Vietnam War]]<br>[[Gulf War]] | url = http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNUS_16-50_mk7.htm
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  • |wars=[[Second World War]] * {{cite book| title=Naval Weapons of World War Two |author=Campbell, John |publisher=Naval Institute Press |year=1985 |id=
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  • |wars=[[Second World War]] ...gun]]s widely used by various German forces throughout the [[Second World War]]. It was the primary German light anti-aircraft gun and was produced in a
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  • |wars= World War I ...[[anti-aircraft]] gun for [[United States]] [[destroyers]] through [[World War I]] and the 1920s. United States naval gun terminology indicates the gun f
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  • ...ange of 7000 yards at the maximum elevation of 15 degrees. By [[World War II]] these guns were found only on a few Coast Guard cutters and [[Defensively ...ied by submarines, auxiliaries, and merchant ships during the second world war. These guns fired the same {{convert|2700|ft|m}} per second ammunition use
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  • ...to protect United States Warships from [[kamikaze]] attacks in [[World War II]]. The name indicates in US Navy terminology that this piece of [[naval ar ...action. <ref> [http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNUS_3-70_mk37.htm US Naval Weapons, at "NavWeaps" website]</ref> It was an essential improvement over the prev
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  • |wars= [[World War I]] * [http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNFR_12-45_m1906.htm 305 mm/45 (12") Model 1906 and Model 1906-1910]
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  • |wars=[[Second World War]] ...[[Italy]]'s [[World War I]] [[battleship]]s for service during [[World War II]].<ref name="Breyer"/> The guns were manufactured by boring out and relini
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  • |wars= [[Second World War]] * [http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNFR_13-50_m1931.htm French 330 mm/50 (13") Model 1931]
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  • |wars= [[First World War]], [[Second World War]] * [http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNFR_134-45_m1912.htm 340 mm/45 (13.4") Model 1912]
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  • |wars=[[Vietnam War]], [[Cambodian Civil War]] ...s shot down 14,657 Axis planes<ref name="ReferenceA">Shunkov V. N. - ''The Weapons of the Red Army''</ref>. The mean quantity of 37&nbsp;mm ammunition to shoo
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  • ...ed in the [[United States]]. It was used by the [[US Army]] in [[World War II]]. | title = Allied Artillery of World War Two
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  • |wars= [[Second World War]], [[Suez Crisis]] * [http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNFR_15-45_m1935.htm French 380 mm/45 (14.96") Model 1935 ]
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  • |wars=[[Second World War]] * {{cite book| title=Naval Weapons of World War Two |author=Campbell, John |publisher=Naval Institute Press |year=1985 |id=
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  • |wars=[[World War II]] ...enough protection for the guns (''[[Cross-Channel guns in the Second World War|Battery Todt]]'') emplaced on [[Cap-Gris-Nez]] in the [[Pas de Calais]] nea
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