Coastal artillery

Coastal artillery is the branch of the armed forces concerned with operating anti-ship artillery or fixed gun batteries in coastal fortifications. ^[1]

Aarno Almqvist

Arno Axel Almqvist (23 September 1881 – 5 March 1940) was a Finnish colonel and modern pentathlete.

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Abkhazian Armed Forces

The Abkhazian Armed Forces are the military of Abkhazia.

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Acheron-class torpedo boat

The colonial service Acheron-class torpedo boats were built by the Atlas Engineering Company at Sydney in 1879 for the New South Wales naval service.

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Across the Pacific

Across the Pacific is a 1942 American spy film set on the eve of the entry of the United States into World War II.

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Action in the Oslofjord

The Action in the Oslofjord occurred late on 8 April 1940 in World War II.

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Action of 12 October 1950

The Action of 12 October 1950 was a battle fought during the Korean War.

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Action of 13 December 1814

The Action of 13 December 1814 was a naval action during the War of 1812.

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The Action of 28 January 1945 was an inconclusive naval battle of the Second World War fought between two British Royal Navy light cruisers and three Kriegsmarine (German navy) destroyers near Bergen, Norway.

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Air Mail scandal

The Air Mail scandal, also known as the Air Mail fiasco, is the name that the American press gave to the political scandal resulting from a congressional investigation of the awarding of contracts to certain airlines to carry airmail and to the use of the U.S. Army Air Corps to fly the mail by the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1934.

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Aleutian World War II National Historic Area

The Aleutian World War II National Historic Area is a U.S. National Historic Site on Amaknak Island in the Aleutian Island Chain of Alaska.

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Alexander Kolchak

Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak CB (Алекса́ндр Васи́льевич Колча́к, – 7 February 1920) was an Imperial Russian admiral, military leader and polar explorer who served in the Imperial Russian Navy, who fought in the Russo-Japanese War and the First World War.

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Alexandra Battery

Alexandra Battery is a coastal artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.

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Allied Forces Baltic Approaches

Allied Forces Baltic Approaches (BALTAP) was a Principal Subordinate Command (PSC) of the NATO Military Command Structure, with responsibility for the Baltic Sea area.

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Allied naval bombardments of Japan during World War II

During the last weeks of World War II, warships of the United States Navy, the British Royal Navy, and the Royal New Zealand Navy bombarded industrial and military facilities in Japan.

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Almirante Latorre-class battleship

The Almirante Latorre class consisted of two super-dreadnought battleships designed by the British company Armstrong Whitworth for the Chilean Navy.

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Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran

The Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran, also known as Anglo-Soviet invasion of Persia, was the invasion of the Imperial State of Iran during the Second World War by Soviet, British and other Commonwealth armed forces.

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Anglo-Zanzibar War

The Anglo-Zanzibar War was a military conflict fought between the United Kingdom and the Zanzibar Sultanate on 27 August 1896.

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Anti-ship missile

Anti-ship missiles are guided missiles that are designed for use against ships and large boats.

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Anti-surface warfare

Anti-surface warfare (ASuW or ASUW) is the branch of naval warfare concerned with the suppression of surface combatants.

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Archipelago Sea

The Archipelago Sea (Finnish: Saaristomeri, Swedish: Skärgårdshavet) is a part of the Baltic Sea between the Gulf of Bothnia, the Gulf of Finland and the Sea of Åland, within Finnish territorial waters.

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Archipelago Sea Naval Command

Archipelago Sea Naval Command (Saaristomeren meripuolustusalue, Skärgårdshavets Marinkommando) was a Finnish Navy unit headquartered in Pansio, Turku.

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Artillery

Artillery is a class of large military weapons built to fire munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry's small arms.

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Artillery battery

In military organizations, an artillery battery is a unit of artillery, mortars, rocket artillery, multiple rocket launchers, surface to surface missiles, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles etc, so grouped to facilitate better battlefield communication and command and control, as well as to provide dispersion for its constituent gunnery crews and their systems.

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Artillery brigade

An artillery brigade is a specialised form of military brigade dedicated to providing artillery support.

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Asbury mechanism

An Asbury Mechanism opens and closes the breech of heavy artillery for reloading with a projectile and bags of propellant.

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Asiatic Squadron

The Asiatic Squadron was a squadron of United States Navy warships stationed in East Asia during the latter half of the 19th century.

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Atlantic Wall

The Atlantic Wall (Atlantikwall) was an extensive system of coastal defence and fortifications built by Nazi Germany between 1942 and 1944 along the coast of continental Europe and Scandinavia as a defence against an anticipated Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe from the United Kingdom during World War II.

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Australian contribution to the Battle of Normandy

The Australian contribution to the Battle of Normandy involved more than 3,000 military personnel serving under British command.

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Austrått Fort

Austrått Fort is a disused coastal artillery site located at Austrått in Ørland, Norway.

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Austro-Hungarian Navy

The Austro-Hungarian Navy (German: kaiserliche und königliche Kriegsmarine, Hungarian: Császári és Királyi Haditengerészet "Imperial and Royal War Navy") was the naval force of Austria-Hungary.

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Škoda 10 cm K10

The Škoda 10 cm K10 was a light-calibre 100 mm (4-inch) naval gun of the Austro-Hungarian Navy used as tertiary armament on semi-dreadnought battleships and as primary armament on scout cruisers and destroyers during World War I. After World War I, variants of the Škoda 10 cm K10 were widely produced in Italy as the 100/47In Italian nomenclature the first number indicates the caliber expressed in millimeters, the second the length in calibers.

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Škoda 15 cm K10 gun

The Škoda 15 cm K10 was a naval gun of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that was used by the Austro-Hungarian Navy during World War I. The gun was actually 149.1 mm, but the classification system for artillery rounded up to the next highest centimeter.

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Škoda 19 cm vz. 1904

The Škoda 19 cm vz.

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Škoda 30.5 cm /45 K10

The Škoda 30.5 cm /45 and Škoda 30.5 cm /45 K10 were a family of related naval guns of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that were used aboard the last classes of pre-dreadnoughts and dreadnoughts of the Austro-Hungarian Navy during the World War I. Guns salvaged from these ships after World War I were later used by the Royal Italian Army as coastal artillery during World War II.

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Škoda 7 cm guns

The Škoda 7 cm guns were a family of naval guns and dual-purpose guns of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that were developed and produced for the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the years before and during World War I. These guns were actually 66 mm, but the classification system for artillery rounded up to the next highest centimeter.

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Škoda 7 cm K10

The Škoda 7 cm K10 was a dual-purpose gun of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that was used by the Austro-Hungarian Navy during World War I. The gun was actually 66 mm, but the classification system for artillery rounded up to the next highest centimeter.

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Żebbuġ, Gozo

Żebbuġ (Iż-Żebbuġ) is a small village overlooking the northwest coast of the island of Gozo in Malta.

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Ballylongford

Ballylongford (historically Bealalongford, from) is a village near Listowel in north County Kerry, Ireland.

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Baltic Fleet

The Baltic Fleet (Балтийский флот) is the fleet of the Russian Navy in the Baltic Sea.

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Banff-class sloop

The Banff-class sloops were a group of ten ships of the Royal Navy.

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BAP Pisagua (SS-33)

BAP Pisagua (SS-33) is one of two Type 209/1200 submarines ordered by the Peruvian Navy on 21 March 1977.

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Basque Auxiliary Navy

The Basque Auxiliary Navy (Marina de Guerra Auxiliar de Euzkadi, Eusko Itsas Gudarostea) was a section of the Spanish Republican Navy operating in the Bay of Biscay between 1936 and 1937.

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Battery Lothringen

Batterie Lothringen was a World War II coastal artillery battery in Saint Brélade, Jersey, named after the SMS'' Lothringen'', and constructed by Organisation Todt for the Wehrmacht during the Occupation of the Channel Islands.

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Battery Moltke

Battery Moltke or Batterie Moltke is an uncompleted World War II former coastal artillery battery in St Ouen in the north west of Jersey.

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Battle for Lake Tanganyika

The Battle for Lake Tanganyika was a series of naval engagements that took place between elements of the Royal Navy, Force Publique and the Kaiserliche Marine between December 1915 and July 1916, during the First World War.

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Battle for Narva Bridgehead

This is a sub-article to Battle of Narva. The Battle of Narva Bridgehead (Estonian: Narva lahingud; German: Schlacht um den Brückenkopf von Narva; Russian: Битва за плацдарм Нарва; 2 February – 26 July 1944) was the campaign that stalled the Soviet Estonian Operation in the surroundings of the town of Narva for six months.

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Battle of Aquia Creek

The Battle of Aquia Creek was an exchange of cannon fire between Union Navy gunboats and Confederate shore batteries on the Potomac River at its confluence with Aquia Creek in Stafford County, Virginia.

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Battle of Šibenik

The Battle of Šibenik (Bitka za Šibenik), also known as the September War (Rujanski rat), was an armed conflict fought between the Yugoslav People's Army (Jugoslovenska Narodna Armija – JNA), supported by the Croatian Serb-established Serbian Autonomous Oblast of Krajina (SAO Krajina), and the Croatian National Guard (Zbor Narodne Garde – ZNG), supported by the Croatian Police.

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Battle of Boca Teacapan

The Battle of Boca Teacapan was the result of a United States Navy boat expedition to destroy a Mexican pirate ship which was attacking targets in the Pacific Ocean.

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Battle of Boulogne (1940)

The Battle of Boulogne was the defence of the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer by French, British and Belgian troops, during the Battle of France of the Second World War in 1940.

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Battle of Corregidor

The Battle of Corregidor (Filipino: Labanan sa Corregidor), fought May 5–6, 1942, was the culmination of the Japanese campaign for the conquest of the Commonwealth of the Philippines during World War II.

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Battle of Drøbak Sound

The Battle of Drøbak Sound took place in Drøbak Sound, the northernmost part of the outer Oslofjord in southern Norway, on 9 April 1940.

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Battle of Drewry's Bluff

The Battle of Drewry's Bluff, also known as the Battle of Fort Darling, or Fort Drewry, took place on May 15, 1862, in Chesterfield County, Virginia, as part of the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War.

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Battle of Durazzo (1915)

The First Battle of Durazzo was a naval battle of World War I. It was fought off Durazzo, Albania at the end of December 1915 and involved the navies of Austria, the United Kingdom, Italy, and France.

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Battle of Durazzo (1918)

The Second Battle of Durazzo, or the Bombardment of Durazzo was a naval battle fought in the Adriatic Sea during the First World War.

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Battle of Dynekilen

The naval Battle of Dynekilen (Slaget ved Dynekilen) took place on 8 July 1716 during the Great Northern War.

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Battle of El Caney

The Battle of El Caney was fought on 1 July 1898, during the Spanish–American War in southeastern Cuba.

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Battle of Fatshan Creek

The Battle of Fatshan Creek (佛山水道之戰) was a naval engagement fought between the United Kingdom's Royal Navy and the Cantonese fleet of Qing China on 1 June 1857.

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Battle of Fayal

The Battle of Fayal was an engagement fought in September 1814 during the war between the United States and the United Kingdom at the Portuguese colony of Fayal in the Azores.

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Battle of Galveston Harbor (1862)

The Battle of Galveston Harbor was a naval engagement between forces from the Union Navy and the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War.

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Battle of Ganghwa

The Battle of Ganghwa was fought during the conflict between Joseon and the United States in 1871.

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Battle of Gdynia

Battle of Gdynia was one of the major battles in northern Poland during the Invasion of Poland of 1939.

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Battle of Guantánamo Bay

The Battle of Guantánamo Bay was fought from June 6 to June 10 in 1898, during the Spanish–American War, when American and Cuban forces seized the strategically and commercially important harbor of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

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Battle of Hel

The Battle of Hel was one of the longest battles of the Invasion of Poland during World War II.

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Battle of Heligoland Bight (1914)

The First Battle of Heligoland Bight was the first naval battle of the First World War, fought on 28 August 1914, between the United Kingdom and Germany.

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Battle of Imbros

The Battle of Imbros was a naval action that took place during the First World War.

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Battle of La Guaira (1812)

The Battle of La Guaira was a naval engagement fought in the Caribbean Sea on 11 December 1812 during the war between Britain and the United States.

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Battle of Lake Borgne

The Battle of Lake Borgne was a battle between the Royal Navy and Royal Marines on one side and the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marines on the other in the American South theatre of the War of 1812.

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Battle of Leros

The Battle of Leros was the central event of the Dodecanese campaign of the Second World War, and is widely used as an alternate name for the whole campaign.

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Battle of Madagascar

The Battle of Madagascar was the British campaign to capture Vichy French-controlled Madagascar during World War II.

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Battle of Manila Bay

The Battle of Manila Bay (Batalla de Bahía de Manila), also known as the Battle of Cavite, took place on 1 May 1898, during the Spanish–American War.

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Battle of Marsa Talamat

The Battle of Marsa Talamat (קרב מרסה-תלמאת) was fought between the Israeli Navy and the Egyptian Navy commando forces on October 7, 1973, during the early stages of the Yom Kippur War.

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Battle of Navarino

The Battle of Navarino was a naval battle fought on 20 October 1827, during the Greek War of Independence (1821–32), in Navarino Bay (modern Pylos), on the west coast of the Peloponnese peninsula, in the Ionian Sea.

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Battle of Okinawa

The (Uchinaa ikusa), codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Marine and Army forces against the Imperial Japanese Army.

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Battle of Port Arthur

The of Monday 8 February – Tuesday 9 February 1904 marked the commencement of the Russo-Japanese War.

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Battle of Puerto Cabello

The Battle of Puerto Cabello was an attack on a Spanish colonial port during the War of Jenkins' Ear on 16 April 1743 and resulted in another defeat of British forces.

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Battle of Rabaul (1942)

The Battle of Rabaul, also known by the Japanese as Operation R, was fought on the island of New Britain in the Australian Territory of New Guinea, in January and February 1942.

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Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (1706)

The Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife was a minor military action of the War of the Spanish Succession during which an English fleet of 13 ships under the command of Admiral John Jennings attempted unsuccessfully to seize the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

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Battle of Shimonoseki Straits

The Battle of Shimonoseki Straits (Japanese:下関海戦, Shimonoseki Kaisen) was a naval engagement fought on July 16, 1863, by the United States Navy warship USS ''Wyoming'' against the powerful daimyō (feudal lord) Mōri Takachika of the Chōshū clan based in Shimonoseki.

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Battle of Shumshu

The Battle of Shumshu, the Soviet invasion of Shumshu in the Kuril Islands, was the first stage of the Soviet invasion of the Kuril Islands in August–September 1945 during World War II.

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Battle of Sinop

The Battle of Sinop, or the Battle of Sinope, was a Russian naval victory over the Ottoman Empire during the Crimean War that took place on 30 November 1853 at Sinop, a sea port in northern Anatolia, when a squadron of Imperial Russian warships struck and defeated a squadron of Ottoman ships anchored in the harbor.

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Battle of Sullivan's Island

The Battle of Sullivan's Island or the Battle of Fort Sullivan was fought on June 28, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War.

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Battle of the Barracks

The Battle of the Barracks (Bitka za vojarne) was a series of engagements that occurred in mid-to-late 1991 between the Croatian National Guard (Zbor narodne garde – ZNG, later renamed the Croatian Army) and the Croatian police on one side and the Yugoslav People's Army (Jugoslovenska Narodna Armija – JNA) on another.

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Battle of the Dalmatian Channels

The Battle of the Dalmatian Channels was a three-day confrontation between three tactical groups of Yugoslav Navy ships and coastal artillery, and a detachment of naval commandos of the Croatian Navy fought on 14–16 November 1991 during the Croatian War of Independence.

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Battle of the Kerch Peninsula

The Battle of the Kerch Peninsula, which commenced with the Soviet Kerch-Feodosia landing operation (Керченско-Феодосийская десантная операция, Kerchensko-Feodosiyskaya desantnaya operatsiya) and ended with the German Operation Bustard Hunt (Unternehmen Trappenjagd), was a World War II battle between Erich von Manstein's German and Romanian 11th Army and Soviet Crimean Front forces in the Kerch Peninsula, in the eastern part of the Crimea.

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Battle of the Rice Boats

The Battle of the Rice Boats, also called the Battle of Yamacraw Bluff, was a land and naval battle of the American Revolutionary War that took place in and around the Savannah River on the border between the Province of Georgia and the Province of South Carolina on March 2 and 3, 1776.

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Battle of Trent's Reach

The Battle of Trent's Reach was one of the final major naval battles of the American Civil War.

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Battle of Valparaíso

The Battle of Valparaíso, also called the Capture of USS Essex, was a naval action fought during the War of 1812.

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Battle of Wake Island

The Battle of Wake Island began simultaneously with the attack on Pearl Harbor naval/air bases in Hawaii and ended on 23 December 1941, with the surrender of the American forces to the Empire of Japan.

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Battlefield 1942

Battlefield 1942 is a first-person shooter video game developed by Digital Illusions Creative Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. The game can be played in single-player mode against the video game AI or in multiplayer mode against players on the Internet or in a local area network.

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Benjamin Tillman

Benjamin Ryan Tillman (August 11, 1847 – July 3, 1918) was a politician of the Democratic Party who served as Governor of South Carolina from 1890 to 1894, and a United States Senator from 1895 until his death in 1918.

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Bergen

Bergen, historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Hordaland on the west coast of Norway.

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Bermuda Cadet Corps

The Bermuda Cadet Corps was a youth organisation in the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda, sponsored originally by the War Office and the British Army.

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Bermuda Garrison

The Bermuda Garrison was the military establishment maintained on the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda by the regular British Army, and its local militia and voluntary reserves from 1701 to 1957.

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Bermuda Militia Artillery

The Bermuda Militia Artillery was a unit of part-time soldiers organised in 1895 as a reserve for the Royal Garrison Artillery detachment of the Regular Army garrison in Bermuda.

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Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps

The Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps (BVRC) was created in 1894 as an all-white, racially segregated reserve for the Regular Army infantry component of the Bermuda Garrison.

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Bethany Beach, Delaware

Bethany Beach is an incorporated town in Sussex County, Delaware, United States.

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Bjarne Keyser Barth

Bjarne Keyser Barth (14 April 1892 – 23 April 1972) was a Norwegian fortress artillery officer.

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BL 12 inch Mk I – VII naval gun

The BL 12 inch naval gun Mk I was a British rifled breech-loading naval gun of the early 1880s intended for the largest warships such as battleships and also coastal defence.

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BL 14 inch Mk VII naval gun

The BL 14 inch Mk VII naval gun was a breech loading (BL) gun designed for the battleships of the Royal Navy in the late 1930s.

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BL 4 inch naval gun Mk VII

The BL 4-inch gun Mk VIIMk VII.

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BL 6 inch gun Mk II – VI

The BL 6 inch guns Marks II, III, IV and VIMark II.

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BL 6-inch Mk VII naval gun

The BL 6 inch gun Mark VII (and the related Mk VIII) was a British naval gun dating from 1899, which was mounted on a heavy traveling carriage in 1915 for British Army service to become one of the main heavy field guns in the First World War, and also served as one of the main coast defence guns throughout the British Empire until the 1950s.

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BL 7.5 inch Mk VI naval gun

The BL 7.5 inch gun Mark VI was the 45 calibre naval gun forming the main battery of Royal Navy s. These ships with seven single gun mounts were significant to the cruiser limitations defined by the Washington Naval Treaty.

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BL 7.5-inch Mk II – V naval gun

The BL 7.5-inch guns Mk II - Mk VBritain used Roman numerals to designate versions or models ("Mark" abbreviated as "Mk") until after World War II.

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BL 8 inch Mk VIII naval gun

The 50 calibre BL 8 inch gun Mark VIIIMark VIII.

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Black Sea Raid

The Black Sea Raid was an Ottoman naval sortie against Russian ports in the Black Sea on 29 October 1914, supported by Germany, that led to the Ottoman entry into World War I. The attack was conceived by Ottoman War Minister Enver Pasha, German Admiral Wilhelm Souchon and the German foreign ministry.

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Blackshirts

The Milizia Volontaria per la Sicurezza Nazionale (MVSN, "Voluntary Militia for National Security"), commonly called the Blackshirts (Camicie Nere, CCNN, singular: Camicia Nera) or squadristi (singular: squadrista), was originally the paramilitary wing of the National Fascist Party and, after 1923, an all-volunteer militia of the Kingdom of Italy.

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Blake Island

Blake Island is a Puget Sound island in Kitsap County, Washington, United States, that is preserved as Blake Island State Park.

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Boden Fortress

Boden Fortress (Bodens fästning) is a modern fortress consisting of several major and minor forts and fortifications surrounding the city of Boden, Norrbotten, in northern Sweden.

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Bombardment of Ancona

The Bombardment of Ancona was a naval engagement of the Adriatic Campaign of World War I between the navies of Italy and Austria-Hungary.

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Bombardment of Curaçao

The Bombardment of Curaçao refers to a 1942 German naval bombardment of a Bullen Baai Company petroleum storage facility on the small South American island of Curaçao during World War II.

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Bombardment of Papeete

The Bombardment of Papeete occurred in French Polynesia when German warships attacked on 22 September 1914, during World War I. The German armoured cruisers and entered the port of Papeete on the island of Tahiti and sank the French gunboat and freighter Walkure before bombarding the town's fortifications.

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Bombardment of Punta Sombrero

The Bombardment of Punta Sombrero was an American naval bombardment in response to a Mexican attack on a United States Navy warship during the Mexican-American War, on October 31, 1847.

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Bombardment of San Juan

The Bombardment of San Juan, or the First Battle of San Juan, on 12 May 1898 was an engagement between United States Navy warships and the Spanish fortifications of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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Breakneck Battery

Breakneck Battery is an artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.

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Brean Down Fort

Brean Down Fort was built above sea level on the headland at Brean Down, south of Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England.

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British anti-invasion preparations of the Second World War

British anti-invasion preparations of the Second World War entailed a large-scale division of military and civilian mobilisation in response to the threat of invasion by German armed forces in 1940 and 1941.

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British campaign in the Baltic (1918–19)

The British Campaign in the Baltic 1918–19 was a part of the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. The codename of the Royal Navy campaign was "Operation Red Trek". The intervention played a key role in enabling the establishment of the independent states of Estonia and LatviaKinvig, Churchill's Crusade but failed to secure the control of Petrograd by White Russian forces, which was one of the main goals of the campaign.Kinvig, Churchill's Crusade, pp. 271–90.

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British Volunteer Corps

The Volunteer Corps was a British voluntary part-time organization for the purpose of home defence in the event of invasion, during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

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Buena Vista Barracks and Battery

Buena Vista Battery was an artillery battery near the Buena Vista Barracks at the southern end of the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.

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Buffalo Airways

Buffalo Airways is a family-run airline based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, established in 1970.

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Built-up gun

A built-up gun is artillery with a specially reinforced barrel.

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Bunker

A bunker is a defensive military fortification designed to protect people or valued materials from falling bombs or other attacks.

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Cabrillo National Monument

Cabrillo National Monument is at the southern tip of the Point Loma Peninsula in San Diego, California.

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Calshot Castle

Calshot Castle is an artillery fort constructed by Henry VIII on the Calshot Spit, Hampshire, England, between 1539 and 1540.

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Camden Fort Meagher

Camden Fort Meagher is a coastal defence fortification close to Crosshaven, County Cork, Ireland.

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Camp Callan

Camp Callan was a United States Army anti-aircraft artillery replacement training center that was operational during World War II.

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Cannon 102/35 Model 1914

The Cannon 102/35 Model 1914 was a naval gun of the Royal Italian Navy in World War I and World War II, which was modified for shore based anti-aircraft, field artillery, railway gun and coastal artillery roles.

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Cannon 102/45

The Cannon 102/45 was a naval gun of the Italian Navy in World War II, which was later modified for shore based anti-aircraft and coastal artillery roles.

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Cannon 76/40 Model 1916

The Cannon 76/40 Model 1916 was a widely used naval gun on ships of the Royal Italian Navy during World War I and World War II.

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Cannone da 190/45

The Cannone da 190/45 was a family of Italian Naval Guns that were the secondary armament of two classes of armored cruisers of the Regia Marina and Hellenic Navy built before World War I. The cruisers that they were aboard saw action in both world wars.

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Cannone da 76/45 S 1911

The Cannone da 76/45 S 1911 was a naval gun used by Italy during World War I and World War II.

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Cannone da 90/53

The Cannone da 90/53 was an Italian-designed cannon used both in an anti-aircraft role and as an anti-tank gun during World War II.

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Canon de 100 mm Modèle 1891

The Canon de 100 mm Modèle 1891 was a French naval gun developed in the late 1800s that armed a variety of warships before World War I and during World War II.

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Canon de 145 L modele 1916 Saint-Chamond

Canon de 145 L modèle 1916 Saint-Chamond or L 16 St Ch was a French heavy artillery piece designed and produced during the First World War.

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Canon de 155 L modèle 1877/14 Schneider

The Canon de 155 L modèle 1877/14 Schneider was a French heavy artillery piece designed before and produced during the First World War.

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Canon de 155 L modele 1916 Saint-Chamond

Canon de 155 L modele 1916 Saint-Chamond was a French heavy artillery piece designed and produced during the First World War.

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Canon de 155mm GPF

The Canon de 155 Grande Puissance Filloux (GPF) mle.1917 was a WWI-era French-designed 155 mm cannon used by the French Army and the United States Army during the first half of the 20th century in both towed and self-propelled mountings.

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Canon de 164 mm Modèle 1893

Railroad model, 1916. The Canon de 164 mm Modèle 1893 was a medium-caliber naval gun used as the secondary armament of a number of French pre-dreadnoughts and armoured cruisers during World War I. It was used as railway artillery in both World Wars and as coastal artillery in World War II.

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Canon de 194 mm Modèle 1902 gun

The Canon de 194 mm Modèle 1902 was a medium-caliber naval gun used as the primary or secondary armament in both casemates and turrets of a number of French pre-dreadnoughts and armored cruisers during World War I. After World War I these ships were scrapped and some were later reused as coastal artillery in World War II.

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Canon de 240 L Mle 1884

The Canon de 240 mm L modèle 1884 was a heavy artillery piece originally employed as coastal artillery and later converted to siege artillery and railway artillery roles.

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Canon de 65 mm Modèle 1891

The Canon de 65 mm Modèle 1891 & Modèle 1902 were a family of widely used naval guns of the French Navy that were also used by the Ottoman Navy during World War I. Guns removed from decommissioned ships also saw use as coastal artillery and as fortress guns in the Maginot Line fortifications during World War II.

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Canon de 75 modèle 1897

The French 75 mm field gun was a quick-firing field artillery piece adopted in March 1898.

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Cape Cod Canal

The Cape Cod Canal is an artificial waterway in the U.S. state of Massachusetts connecting Cape Cod Bay in the north to Buzzards Bay in the south, and is part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway.

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Capel-le-Ferne

Capel-le-Ferne is a village situated near Folkestone, Kent.

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Capture of Monterey

The Capture of Monterey by the United States Navy and Marine Corps occurred in 1842.

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Capture of Plymouth

The Capture of Plymouth was a battle of the American Civil War, fought in October 1864.

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Casemate

A casemate, sometimes erroneously rendered casement, is a fortified gun emplacement or armored structure from which guns are fired.

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Castle Community College

Castle Community College is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in Deal in the English county of Kent.

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Castle Down

Castle Down is a windswept plateau of maritime heath in the northern part of the island of Tresco, Isles of Scilly.

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Ceylon in World War II

After the outbreak of the Second World War, in the British Crown Colony of Ceylon (modern-day Sri Lanka), the government of Sir Don Baron Jayatilaka assured the British king and his majesty's government of its continued support.

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Chain Home Low

Chain Home Low (CHL) was the name of a British early warning radar system operated by the RAF during World War II.

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Charles E. Moore

Charles Edward Moore (21 April 1894–19 June 1953) was an American industrialist who is best known for his contribution to the maritime shipbuilding industry during World War II.

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Chebucto Head, Nova Scotia

Chebucto Head is a Canadian headland on Nova Scotia's Chebucto Peninsula located within the community of Duncan's Cove, Nova Scotia.

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Chinese cruiser Ying Rui

Ying Rui was a cruiser built for the Imperial Chinese Navy, which served with the Republic of China Navy.

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Clarence M. Condon

Clarence Melville Condon (August 12, 1875 - July 20, 1916) was a United States Army Sergeant who received the Medal of Honor for actions during the Philippine–American War.

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Coastal batteries of Estonia

The coastal batteries presented itself as a powerful strike force of Estonian Navy between 1918 and 1940.

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Coastal defence and fortification

Castillo San Felipe de Barajas in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, an example of an Early Modern coastal defense Coastal defence (or defense) and coastal fortification are measures taken to provide protection against military attack at or near a coastline (or other shoreline), for example, fortification and coastal artillery.

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Coastal defence ship

Coastal defence ships (sometimes called coastal battleships or coast defence ships) were warships built for the purpose of coastal defence, mostly during the period from 1860 to 1920.

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Coastal fortifications of New Zealand

Coastal fortifications were constructed in New Zealand in two main waves: around 1885 as a response to fears of an attack by Russia, and in World War II due to fears of invasion by the Japanese.

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Columbiad

The columbiad was a large-caliber, smoothbore, muzzle-loading cannon able to fire heavy projectiles at both high and low trajectories.

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Commandos 3: Destination Berlin

Commandos 3: Destination Berlin is a real-time tactics video game, the third installment of the ''Commandos'' series.

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Connaught Battery

Connaught Battery is a World War I era harbour defence battery located north of York Redoubt at Ferguson's Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Conning tower

A conning tower is a raised platform on a ship or submarine, often armored, from which an officer can conn the vessel, i.e., give directions to the helmsman.

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Corregidor

Corregidor Island, locally called Isla ng Corregidor, is an island located at the entrance of Manila Bay in southwestern part of Luzon Island in the Philippines.

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Cove Fort, County Cork

Cove Fort is a small bastioned land battery to the east of Cobh in County Cork, Ireland.

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Croatian Navy

The Croatian Navy (Hrvatska ratna mornarica or HRM) is a branch of the Croatian Armed Forces.

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Croatian War of Independence

The Croatian War of Independence was fought from 1991 to 1995 between Croat forces loyal to the government of Croatia—which had declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY)—and the Serb-controlled Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and local Serb forces, with the JNA ending its combat operations in Croatia by 1992.

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Culver Battery

Culver Battery is a former coastal artillery battery on Culver Down, on the eastern side of the Isle of Wight.

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Dale Fort

Dale Fort is a mid-19th century coastal artillery fort at Dale Head, a rocky promontory near Dale, Pembrokeshire, to the west of Milford Haven in Wales.

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Dano-Swedish War (1658–60)

The Dano-Swedish War of 1658–60 (Anden Karl Gustav-krig, Karl X Gustavs andra danska krig, Zweeds-Nederlandse Oorlog) was a war between Denmark–Norway and Sweden.

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Danube Delta Campaign

The Danube Delta Campaign was a series of naval engagements between the Soviet Danube Flotilla and its Romanian counterpart in late June 1941, during the first days of Operation Barbarossa.

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Danube Flotilla (Soviet Union)

The Danube Flotilla was a naval force of the Soviet Navy's Black Sea Fleet during World War II (in Russia, called the Great Patriotic War) and afterwards, existing 1940–1941 and 1944–1960.

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Davids' Island (New York)

Davids' Island is a island off the coast of New Rochelle, New York, in Long Island Sound.

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De Redin towers

The De Redin Towers (Torrijiet ta' De Redin) are a series of small coastal watchtowers built in Malta by the Order of Saint John between 1658 and 1659.

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Decima Flottiglia MAS

The Decima Flottiglia MAS (Decima Flottiglia Motoscafi Armati Siluranti, also known as La Decima or Xª MAS) (Italian for "10th Assault Vehicle Flotilla") was an Italian commando frogman unit of the Regia Marina (Italian Royal Navy) created during the Fascist regime.

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Depression range finder

The depression range finder was a fire control device used to calculate firing solutions when gun laying in coastal artillery.

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Devil's Gap Battery

Devil's Gap Battery is a coastal battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar, overlooking the Bay of Gibraltar near the westernmost limits of the Upper Rock Nature Reserve.

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Disappearing gun

A disappearing gun, a gun mounted on a disappearing carriage, is an obsolete type of artillery which enabled a gun to hide from direct fire and observation.

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Douglas Imrie McKay

Douglas Imrie McKay (1879 – September 24, 1962) was an American artillery and law enforcement officer and New York City Police Department police official who served as New York City Police Commissioner in 1914.

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Dover Strait coastal guns, 1940–1944

The Dover Strait coastal guns were British and German long-range coastal artillery pieces, on the English Channel coasts of Kent, England and the Pas-de-Calais, occupied France.

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Dover Western Heights

The Western Heights of Dover are one of the most impressive fortifications in Britain.

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Dummy Battery

Dummy Battery, originally known as Grain Battery, is a disused fortified gun battery located about south of the village of Grain, Kent at the confluence of the Rivers Thames and Medway.

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Dynamite gun

A dynamite gun is any of a class of artillery pieces that use compressed air to propel an explosive projectile (such as one containing dynamite).

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Easter Sunday Raid

The Easter Sunday Raid (or Battle of Ceylon) was an air attack by carrier-based aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Navy against Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), on Easter Sunday, 5 April 1942, during the South-East Asian theatre of World War II.

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Egmont Key Light

The current Egmont Key Light dates from 1858.

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Ehrhardt 7.5 cm Model 1901

The Ehrhardt 7.5 cm Model 1901 was a field gun designed and built by the German company Rheinische Metallwaren- und Maschinenfabrik and sold to Norway in 1901.

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Ekaterina II-class battleship

The Ekaterina II class were a class of four battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the 1880s.

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EOC 8 inch 45 caliber

The EOC 8 inch 45 caliber were a family of related 45 caliber naval guns designed by the Elswick Ordnance Company and manufactured by Armstrong for export customers before World War I. In addition to being produced in the United Kingdom licensed variants were produced in Italy and in Japan.

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Falca Lines

The Falca Lines, also known as the Falca Gap Entrenchment (Trunċiera ta' Falca Gap), are an infantry entrenchment in northern Malta, located on the boundary between Mġarr and St. Paul's Bay.

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Fårösund

Fårösund is a locality situated on the Swedish island of Gotland with 800 inhabitants in 2014.

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Federico Martinengo

Federico Carlo Martinengo (18 July 1899 – 9 September 1943) was an Italian flying ace, credited with five aerial victories, during World War I, and an Italian admiral during World War II.

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Femöre battery

Femöre battery (also known as "Battery OD") is a facility previously operated by the Swedish Coastal Artillery arm of Swedish Armed Forces.

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Ferguson's Cove, Nova Scotia

Ferguson's Cove is a suburban community within the Halifax Regional Municipality Nova Scotia on the western shore of Halifax Harbour between Purcell's Cove and Herring Cove along Route 253.

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Festung Norwegen

Festung Norwegen (Fortress Norway) was the German term for the heavy defence and fortification system of Norway during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany in World War II.

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Field gun

A field gun is a field artillery piece.

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Finnish Civil War

The Finnish Civil War was a conflict for the leadership and control of Finland during the country's transition from a Grand Duchy of the Russian Empire to an independent state.

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Finnish coastal defence ship Ilmarinen

Ilmarinen was a Finnish Navy Panssarilaiva ("Armored ship"; a coastal defence ship by British classification).

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Finnish Navy

The Finnish Navy (Merivoimat, Marinen) is one of the branches of the Finnish Defence Forces.

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Finnish transport vessel Wilhelm Carpelan

Wilhelm Carpelan is a former Von Fersen-class transport boat.

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Finnish–Estonian defence cooperation

Finnish–Estonian defence cooperation began in 1930 with a secret military pact between Finland and Estonia against the threat of the Soviet Union.

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Fire control tower

A fire control tower is a structure located near the coastline, used to detect and locate enemy vessels offshore, direct fire upon them from coastal batteries, or adjust the aim of guns by spotting shell splashes.

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First Battle of Cárdenas

The First Battle of Cardenas was a naval action fought in May 1898 during the Spanish–American War.

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First Battle of Sacket's Harbor

The First Battle of Sacket's Harbor (also spelled as Sackett's) was a battle fought on July 19, 1812, between the United States and the British Empire; it was the first engagement of the war between these forces.

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First Battle of Tripoli Harbor

The First Battle of Tripoli Harbor was a naval battle fought on May 16, 1802 in Tripoli Harbor between a combined force consisting of the American frigate and two Swedish Navy frigates against several Tripolitan Barbary corsairs.

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First Bombardment of Midway

The First Bombardment of Midway, or the First Bombardment of Sand Island, or Attack on Midway, was a small land and sea engagement of World War II.

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Flakfortet

Flakfortet, meaning sand-shoal fortress, is a sea fort located on the artificially built island of Saltholmrev, in the Øresund between Copenhagen and Saltholm.

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Fort Armstrong (Hawaii)

Fort Armstrong, Hawaii was a Coast Artillery Fort built in 1907 and named after Brigadier General Samuel C. Armstrong.

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Fort Baker

Fort Baker is one of the components of California's Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

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Fort Columbia State Park

Fort Columbia State Park is a Washington state park that preserves the site of Fort Columbia in Chinook.

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Fort Cowan Cowan

Fort Cowan Cowan is a heritage-listed World War II fortification at 30 Jessie Wadsworth Street, Moreton Island, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

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Fort Crockett

Fort Crockett is a government reservation on Galveston Island overlooking the Gulf of Mexico originally built as a defense installation to protect the city and harbor of Galveston and to secure the entrance to Galveston Bay, thus protecting the commercial and industrial ports of Galveston and Houston and the extensive oil refineries in the bay area.

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Fort Cronkhite

Fort Cronkhite is one of the components of California's Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

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Fort Davis, County Cork

Fort Davis (Irish: Dún an Dáibhisigh; previously Fort Carlisle), is a coastal defence fortification close to Whitegate, County Cork, Ireland.

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Fort DeRussy Military Reservation

Fort DeRussy is a United States military reservation in the Waikiki area of Honolulu, Hawaii, under the jurisdiction of the United States Army.

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Fort Dunree

Fort Dunree (or Dún Fhraoigh meaning "Fort of Heather") is a coastal defence fortification located on the west side of the Inishowen peninsula, Ireland.

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Fort Fredrick

Fort Fredrick (translit; translit), also known as Trincomalee Fort or Fort of Triquillimale, is a fort built by the Portuguese at Trincomalee, Eastern Province, Sri Lanka, completed in 1624 CE, built on Swami Rock-Konamamalai from the debris of the world famous ancient Hindu Koneswaram temple (Temple of a Thousand Pillars).

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Fort Funston

Fort Funston is a former harbor defense installation located in the southwestern corner of San Francisco.

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Fort Hancock, New Jersey

Fort Hancock is a former United States Army fort at Sandy Hook in Middletown Township New Jersey.

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Fort Heath

Fort Heath was a US seacoast military installation for defense of the Boston and Winthrop Harbors with an early 20th-century Coast Artillery fort, a 1930s USCG radio station, prewar naval research facilities, World War II batteries, and a Cold War radar station.

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Fort Ino

Fort Ino or Fort Nikolaevsky (форт «Ино» or форт Николаевский) is an abandoned early 20th-century Russian coastal fortification situated on the northern shore of Neva Bay in the Gulf of Finland.

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Fort Kamehameha

Fort Kamehameha was a United States Army military base that was the site of several coastal artillery batteries to defend Pearl Harbor starting in 1907 in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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Fort MacArthur

Fort MacArthur is a former United States Army installation in San Pedro, Los Angeles, California (now the port community of Los Angeles).

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Fort Mahon

Fort Mahon (Fort d'Ambleteuse or Fort Vauban) is a sea fort by the commune of Ambleteuse in the Pas-de-Calais, northern France.

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Fort Manoel

Fort Manoel (Forti Manoel or Fortizza Manoel) is a star fort on Manoel Island in Gżira, Malta.

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Fort Mansfield

Fort Mansfield was a coastal artillery installation located on Napatree Point, a long barrier beach in the village of Watch Hill in Westerly, Rhode Island.

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Fort Mills

Fort Mills (Corregidor, the Philippines) was the location of US Major General George F. Moore's headquarters for the Philippine Department's Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays in early World War II, and was the largest seacoast fort in the Philippines.

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Fort of São João (São Mateus da Calheta)

Fort of São João (Forte de São João), also known as Fort of Biscoitinho (for the lava rock formations along its coastal frontier), is a medieval fort, in the civil parish of São Mateus da Calheta, in the municipality of Angra do Heroísmo, on the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores.

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Fort Queenscliff

Fort Queenscliff, in Victoria, Australia, dates from 1860 when an open battery was constructed on Shortland's Bluff to defend the entrance to Port Phillip.

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Fort Randolph (Panama)

Fort Randolph (Panama) was a Coast Artillery Corps fort built to defend the northern end of the Panama canal in conjunction with Fort Sherman.

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Fort San Miguel

Fort San Miguel was a Spanish fortification at Yuquot (formerly Friendly Cove) on Nootka Island, just west of north-central Vancouver Island.

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Fort Schuyler

Fort Schuyler is a preserved 19th century fortification in the New York City borough of the Bronx.

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Fort Slocum

Fort Slocum, New York was a US military post which occupied Davids' Island in the western end of Long Island Sound in the city of New Rochelle, New York from 1867 to 1965.

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Fort St. Catherine

Fort St.

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Fort Templebreedy

Fort Templebreedy (Irish: Dún Theampall Bríde), also known as Templebreedy Battery, was a coastal defence fortification close to Crosshaven, in County Cork, Ireland.

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Fort Tilden

Fort Tilden, also known as Fort Tilden Historic District, is a former United States Army installation on the coast in the New York City borough of Queens.

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Fort Wadsworth

Fort Wadsworth is a former United States military installation on Staten Island in New York City, situated on The Narrows which divide New York Bay into Upper and Lower halves, a natural point for defense of the Upper Bay and Manhattan beyond.

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Fort Ward (Washington)

Fort Ward is a former United States Army coastal artillery fort, and later, a Navy installation located on the southwest side of Bainbridge Island, Washington, along Rich Passage.

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Fort Wetherill

Fort Wetherill is a former coast artillery fort that occupies the southern portion of the eastern tip of Conanicut Island in Jamestown, Rhode Island.

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Fort Wint

Fort Wint (known as Grande Island, the Philippines) was part of the harbor defenses of Manila and Subic Bays built by the Philippine Department of the United States Army between 1907 and 1920 in response to recommendations of the Taft Board prior to the non-fortification clause of the Washington Naval Treaty.

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Fort Worden

Fort Worden and accompanying Fort Worden State Park are located in Port Townsend, along Admiralty Inlet in Washington state.

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Fortaleza de São João (Rio de Janeiro)

The Fortaleza de São João da Barra do Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese for: Fortress of Saint John of the Harbor of Rio de Janeiro), popularly known as the Fortaleza de São João or Forte (de) São João (Fort (of) Saint John), is a 16th-century star fort in the present-day Urca neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, erected by Estácio de Sá to protect Guanabara Bay from French invasion.

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Fortification

A fortification is a military construction or building designed for the defense of territories in warfare; and is also used to solidify rule in a region during peacetime.

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Fortifications of Malta

The fortifications of Malta consist of a number of walled cities, citadels, forts, towers, batteries, redoubts, entrenchments and pillboxes.

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Fortifications of Plymouth

The fortifications of Plymouth in Devon are extensive due to its natural harbour, its commanding position on the Western Approaches and its role as the United Kingdom's second largest naval base after Portsmouth.

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Forts in Sri Lanka

Forts and fortifications in Sri Lanka date back thousands of years with many being built by Sri Lankan Kings, these include several walled cities.

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Forts of Texas

The Forts of Texas include a number of historical and operational military installations.

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Franco-Prussian War

The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War (Deutsch-Französischer Krieg, Guerre franco-allemande), often referred to in France as the War of 1870 (19 July 1871) or in Germany as 70/71, was a conflict between the Second French Empire of Napoleon III and the German states of the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia.

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Frederick Wilhelm Kaltenbach

Frederick Wilhelm Kaltenbach (March 29, 1895 – c. October 1945) was an American of German origin who broadcast Nazi propaganda from Germany during World War II.

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Free French Naval Forces

Les Forces Navales Françaises Libres ("Free French Naval Forces") were the naval arm of the Free French Forces during the Second World War.

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French battleship Bouvet

Bouvet was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the French Navy.

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French battleship Suffren

Suffren was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the French Navy, launched in July 1899.

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French destroyer Albatros

The French destroyer Albatros was one of six (contre-torpilleurs) built for the French Navy in the interwar period.

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French destroyer Léopard

| The French destroyer Léopard was a built for the French Navy during the 1920s.

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French invasion of Honolulu

The French invasion of Honolulu (also known as the Sacking of Honolulu, or the Tromelin Affair) was an attack on Honolulu by Louis Tromelin in retribution for the local persecution of Catholics and repression of French trade.

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French Resistance

The French Resistance (La Résistance) was the collection of French movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and against the collaborationist Vichy régime during the Second World War.

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Gabriel Schanche Kielland

Gabriel Schanche Kielland (4 March 1760 – 5 March 1821) was a businessman and ship owner in the city of Stavanger in Norway.

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Gallipoli Campaign

The Gallipoli Campaign, also known as the Dardanelles Campaign, the Battle of Gallipoli, or the Battle of Çanakkale (Çanakkale Savaşı), was a campaign of the First World War that took place on the Gallipoli peninsula (Gelibolu in modern Turkey) in the Ottoman Empire between 17 February 1915 and 9 January 1916.

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Gangut-class battleship

The Gangut-class battleships, also known as the "Sevastopol class", were the first dreadnoughts begun for the Imperial Russian Navy before World War I. They had a convoluted design history involving several British companies, evolving requirements, an international design competition, and foreign protests.

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Günther Lütjens

Johann Günther Lütjens (25 May 1889 – 27 May 1941) was a German Admiral whose military service spanned more than thirty years and two world wars.

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George Blakely

George Blakely (July 5, 1870 – November 16, 1965) was an army officer, and American Brigadier general active during World War I.

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George S. Blanchard

George Samuel Blanchard (April 3, 1920 – May 3, 2006) was a United States Army four-star general who served as Commander in Chief, U.S. Army Europe/Commander, Central Army Group (CINCUSAREUR/COMCENTAG) from 1975 to 1979.

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German cruiser Königsberg

Königsberg was a German light cruiser that was operated between 1929 and April 1940, including service in World War II.

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German destroyer Z1 Leberecht Maass

The German destroyer Z1 Leberecht Maass was the lead ship of her class of four destroyers built for the German Navy (initially called the Reichsmarine and then renamed as the Kriegsmarine in 1935) during the mid-1930s.

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German destroyer Z18 Hans Lüdemann

Z18 Hans Lüdemann was one of six Type 1936 destroyers built for the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) in the late 1930s.

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German destroyer Z22 Anton Schmitt

Z22 Anton Schmitt was one of six Type 1936 destroyers built for the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) in the late 1930s.

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German destroyer Z27

Z27 was one of eight Type 1936A destroyers built for the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) during World War II.

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German destroyer Z29

Z29 was one of eight Type 1936A destroyers built for the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) during World War II.

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German destroyer Z30

Z30 was one of eight Type 1936A destroyers built for the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) during World War II.

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German destroyer Z33

Z33 was a Type 1936A (Mob) destroyer built for the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) during World War II.

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German destroyer Z34

Z34 was a Type 1936A (Mob) destroyer built for the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) during World War II.

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German destroyer Z9 Wolfgang Zenker

Z9 Wolfgang Zenker was a built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine in the mid-1930s.

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German destroyer ZH1

ZH1 was the lead ship of her her class of four destroyers built for the Royal Netherlands Navy in the late 1930s.

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German invasion of Denmark (1940)

The German invasion of Denmark was the fighting that followed the German army crossing the Danish border on 9 April 1940 by land, sea and air.

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German training ship Bremse

Bremse was built as an artillery training ship (Artillerieschulschiff) of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine with a secondary function as a testbed for new marine diesel engines later installed in German panzerschiffs.

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German war crimes

The governments of the German Empire and Nazi Germany ordered, organized and condoned a substantial number of war crimes in World War I and World War II respectively.

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Gibson Code

The Gibson Code is a constructed language invented by Manly B. Gibson of the United States Army Coastal Artillery, which replaces words with numbers using the digits 0-9.

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GL Mk. I radar

Gun Laying radar, Mark I, or GL Mk.

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Gladeon M. Barnes

Gladeon Marcus Barnes (15 June 1887 – 15 November 1961) was a United States Army major general who, as Chief of Research and Engineering in the Ordnance Department, was responsible for the development of 1,600 different weapons.

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Glen Rounds

Glen Harold Rounds (April 4, 1906 – September 27, 2002) was an American author and illustrator.

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Gonzalez Hontoria de 12 cm mod 1883

The Gonzalez Hontoria de 12 cm mod 1883 was a Spanish naval gun developed in the late 1800s that armed a variety of warships of the Spanish Navy during the Spanish–American War.

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Gonzalez Hontoria de 14 cm mod 1883

The Gonzalez Hontoria de 14 cm mod 1883 was a Spanish naval gun developed in the late 1800s that armed a variety of warships of the Spanish Navy during the Spanish–American War.

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Gonzalez Hontoria de 16 cm mod 1883

The Gonzalez Hontoria de 16 cm mod 1883 was a Spanish naval gun developed in the late 1800s that armed a variety of warships of the Spanish Navy during the Spanish–American War.

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Governor Simcoe (1793 ship)

Governor Simcoe was a merchant schooner launched in 1793 that the Provincial Marine acquired in 1813 and named after the British naval officer Sir Sidney Smith.

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Great Diamond Island

Great Diamond Island is an island in Casco Bay, Maine, United States.

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Grillo-class tracked torpedo motorboat

The Grillo-class was a class of torpedo armed motorboats in service with the Regia Marina (the Royal Navy of Italy) during the First World War.

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Gulf of Finland Naval Command

Gulf of Finland Naval Command (Suomenlahden Meripuolustusalue, Finska Vikens Marinkommando) was a Finnish Navy unit headquartered in Upinniemi, Kirkkonummi.

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Gun data computer

The gun data computer was a series of artillery computers used by the U.S. Army for coastal artillery, field artillery and antiaircraft artillery applications.

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Gun laying

Gun laying is the process of aiming an artillery piece, such as a gun, howitzer or mortar, on land or at sea, against surface or air targets.

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Gun turret

A gun turret is a location from which weapons can be fired that affords protection, visibility, and some cone of fire.

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Halcyon-class minesweeper

The Halcyon class was a class of 21 oil-fired minesweepers (officially, "fleet minesweeping sloops") built for the British Royal Navy between 1933 and 1939.

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Half Shot Shooters

Half Shot Shooters is the 14th short film released by Columbia Pictures in 1936 starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard).

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Hans Reidar Holtermann

Hans Reidar Holtermann (born 20 October 1895 in Sokndal, died 25 November 1966 in Bærum) was a Norwegian military officer.

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Harbor Defenses of Argentia and St. John's

The Harbor Defenses of Argentia and St.

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Harbor Defenses of Boston

The Harbor Defenses of Boston was a United States Army Coast Artillery Corps harbor defense command.

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Harbor Defenses of Long Island Sound

The Harbor Defenses of Long Island Sound was a United States Army Coast Artillery Corps harbor defense command.

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Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays

The Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays ("Coast Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays" until 1925) (a.k.a. CD/HD Manila Bay) were a United States Army Coast Artillery Corps harbor defense command, part of the Philippine Department of the United States Army from circa 1910 through early World War II.

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Harbor Defenses of Narragansett Bay

The Harbor Defenses of Narragansett Bay was a United States Army Coast Artillery Corps harbor defense command.

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Harbor Defenses of New Bedford

The Harbor Defenses of New Bedford was a United States Army Coast Artillery Corps harbor defense command.

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Harbor Defenses of New York

The Harbor Defenses of New York was a United States Army Coast Artillery Corps harbor defense command.

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Harbor Defenses of Portland

The Harbor Defenses of Portland was a United States Army Coast Artillery Corps harbor defense command.

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Harbor Defenses of Portsmouth

The Harbor Defenses of Portsmouth was a United States Army Coast Artillery Corps harbor defense command.

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Hearts of Oak (New York militia)

The Hearts of Oak (originally "The Corsicans") were a volunteer militia based in the British colonial Province of New York and formed circa 1775 in New York City.

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Heligoland

Heligoland (Helgoland; Heligolandic Frisian: deät Lun, Mooring Frisian: Hålilönj) is a small German archipelago in the North Sea.

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Henry Aurand

Henry S. Aurand (November 16, 1894 – 1980) was a career United States Army officer.

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Herdla (island)

Herdla is an island in the municipality of Askøy in Hordaland county, Norway.

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History of Galveston, Texas

The History of Galveston, Texas, begins with the archaeological record of Native Americans who used the island.

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History of Mauritius

The known history of Mauritius begins with its discovery by Arabs, followed by Europeans and its appearance on maps in the early 16th century.

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HMAS Australia (1911)

HMAS Australia was one of three s built for the defence of the British Empire.

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HMAS Hobart (D 39)

HMAS Hobart (D 39) was a ''Perth'' class guided missile destroyer of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).

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HMAS Watson

HMAS Watson is a Royal Australian Navy (RAN) base on Sydney Harbour at South Head, near in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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HMCS Fort William (J311)

HMCS Fort William (pennant J311) was a that served with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War.

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HMCS Haida

HMCS Haida is a destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) from 1943 to 1963, participating in World War II and the Korean War.

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HMCS Huron (G24)

HMCS Huron was a that served in the Royal Canadian Navy in the Second World War and the Korean War.

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HMCS Prince Henry

HMCS Prince Henry was an armed merchant cruiser and a landing ship infantry during World War II for the Royal Canadian Navy.

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HMNB Portsmouth

Her Majesty's Naval Base, Portsmouth (HMNB Portsmouth) is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the British Royal Navy (the others being HMNB Clyde and HMNB Devonport).

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HMS Bangor (J00)

HMS Bangor was a of the Royal Navy that served during the Second World War.

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HMS Barham (04)

HMS Barham was a built for the Royal Navy during the early 1910s.

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HMS Caradoc (D60)

HMS Caradoc was a light cruiser built for the Royal Navy during World War I. She was one of the four ships of the Caledon sub-class.

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HMS Dragon (D46)

HMS Dragon, also known in Polish service as ORP Dragon (dragoon), was a D- or ''Danae''-class cruiser built for the Royal Navy.

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HMS Endymion (1797)

HMS Endymion was a 40-gun fifth rate that served in the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, the War of 1812 and during the First Opium War.

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HMS Exmoor (L08)

The second HMS Exmoor (L08), ex-HMS Burton, was a destroyer of the Royal Navy in commission from 1941 to 1945.

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HMS Fearless (H67)

HMS Fearless was an F-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s.

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HMS Fury (H76)

HMS Fury was an F-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the 1930s.

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HMS Hotspur (H01)

HMS Hotspur was an H-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s.

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HMS Hussar (J82)

HMS Hussar was a Royal Navy Halcyon-class minesweeper of World War II.

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HMS New Zealand (1911)

HMS New Zealand was one of three s built for the defence of the British Empire.

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HMS North Star

Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS North Star, named after the pole star.

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HMS Revenge (06)

HMS Revenge (pennant number: 06) was the lead ship of the s built for the Royal Navy during World War I. Although the class is often referred to as the Royal Sovereign class, official documents of 1914–1918 refer to it as the Revenge class.

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HMS Thames (1885)

HMS Thames was a protected cruiser built for the Royal Navy (RN) in the 1880s.

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HMS Undaunted (1807)

HMS Undaunted was a fifth-rate 38-gun sailing frigate of the British Royal Navy, built during the Napoleonic Wars, which conveyed Napoleon to his first exile on the island of Elba in early 1814.

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HMS Unique (1804)

HMS Unique was the French 12-gun schooner Harmonie that captured from the French in 1804.

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HMS Venetia (D53)

HMS Venetia (D53) was a V-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in World War I and World War II.

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HMS Venomous

HMS Venomous (ex-Venom), was a Modified W-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in the Russian Civil War and World War II.

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HMT Islay (T172)

HMT Islay (T172) was a British Royal Navy Isles class armed trawler of the Second World War.

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HNLMS Koningin Emma der Nederlanden

HNLMS Koningin Emma der Nederlanden (Hr.Ms.) was an Atjeh-class unprotected cruiser of the Royal Dutch Navy.

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HNoMS Æger (1936)

HNoMS Æger was a launched at Karljohansvern naval shipyard in Horten in 1936.

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HNoMS Draug (1908)

HNoMS Draug was the lead ship of the three-ship of destroyers built for the Royal Norwegian Navy in the years 1908–1913.

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HNoMS Olav Tryggvason

The minelayer HNoMS Olav Tryggvason was built by the naval shipyard at Horten in the early 1930s and had build number 119.

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HNoMS Sleipner (1936)

HNoMS Sleipner was a destroyer commissioned into the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1936.

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Hobart coastal defences

The Hobart coastal defences are a network of now defunct coastal batteries, some of which are inter-linked with tunnels, that were designed and built by British colonial authorities in the nineteenth century to protect the city of Hobart, Tasmania, from attack by enemy warships.

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Hoods Tower Museum

The Hoods Tower Museum (translit; ත්‍රිකුණාමලය නාවික කෞතුකාගාරය Trikuṇāmalaya Nāvika Kautukāgāraya) is a naval museum of the Sri Lanka Navy in Trincomalee.

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Hotel Nacional de Cuba

The Hotel Nacional de Cuba is a historic hotel located on the Malecón in the middle of Vedado, Havana, Cuba.

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Hugh John Casey

Hugh John "Pat" Casey (24 July 1898 – 30 August 1981) was a major general in the United States Army.

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Humaitá-class gunboat

The Humaitá-class gunboat was a two-unit class of riverine gunboats designed by Paraguayan naval engineer José Bozzano and built in Genoa, Italy, for the Paraguayan Navy from 1928 to 1931.

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Hyōgo-ku, Kobe

is one of nine wards of Kobe in Japan.

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Iki Island

, or the is an archipelago in the Tsushima Strait, which is administered as the city of Iki in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan.

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Il Cuore nel Pozzo

Il Cuore nel Pozzo (Italian for The heart in the pit; often reported in Croatian media with the translation Srce u jami and in Slovene Srce v breznu) is a TV movie, produced by state broadcaster RAI, that focuses on the escape of a group of children from Tito's partisans in the aftermath of World War II, as they start an ethnic cleansing of all Italians from Istria and the Julian March.

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Imperatritsa Mariya-class battleship

The Imperatritsa Mariya-class (Императрица Мария) battleships were the first dreadnoughts built for the Black Sea Fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy.

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Inis Cathaigh

Inis Cathaigh or Scattery Island is an island in the Shannon Estuary, Ireland, off the coast of Kilrush, County Clare.

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Inspector General of the Royal Norwegian Navy

The Inspector General of the Royal Norwegian Navy is the Commander in chief of the Royal Norwegian Navy.

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Iosif Stalin-class passenger ship

The Iosif Stalin-class passenger ship was a two-strong class of large turbo-electric powered passenger ships, operated by the Soviet Baltic State Shipping Company (BGMP).

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Italian battleship Vittorio Veneto

Vittorio Veneto was the second member of the that served in the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) during World War II.

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Italian cruiser Marco Polo

Marco Polo was an armored cruiser built for the Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina) in the 1890s, the first of her type in Italian service.

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Italian invasion of France

The Italian invasion of France, also called the Battle of the Alps (10–25 June 1940), was the first major Italian engagement of World War II and the last major engagement of the Battle of France.

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J. Edward Hutchinson

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James H. Ledlie

James Hewett Ledlie (April 14, 1832 – August 15, 1882) was a civil engineer for American railroads and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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James Lucas Yeo

Sir James Lucas Yeo,, (7 October 1782 – 21 August 1818) was a British naval commander who served in the War of 1812.

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James's Fort

James Fort (Dún Rí Shéamuis) is an early 17th-century pentagonal fort located on Castlepark peninsula in Kinsale harbour.

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Japanese battleship Aki

was a semi-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the first decade of the 20th century.

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Japanese battleship Kashima

was the second ship of the two pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the first decade of the 20th century, the last to be built by British shipyards.

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Japanese destroyer Akatsuki (1932)

was the twenty-first, or the lead ship of the (if that sub-class is regarded as a separate class), built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the inter-war period.

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Japanese destroyer Hayate (1925)

The Japanese destroyer was one of nine destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN).

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Japanese destroyer Ikazuchi (1931)

was the twenty-third, or the third (if that sub-class is regarded as a separate class), built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the inter-war period.

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Japanese destroyer Kisaragi (1925)

was one of twelve s, built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the 1920s.

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Japanese invasion of Lingayen Gulf

The Japanese invasion of Lingayen Gulf (Filipino: Paglusob ng mga Hapones sa Golfo ng Lingayen) was the key point in the Japanese plan for the conquest of the Philippines.

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Japanese submarine I-25

was a B1-Type (I-15 Class) submarine of the Imperial Japanese Navy that served in World War II, took part in the Attack on Pearl Harbor, and carried out the only aerial bombing on the continental United States during wartime; during the so-called Lookout Air Raid; and the Bombardment of Fort Stevens, both attacks occurring in the state of Oregon.

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Järflotta

Järflotta is an island in Stockholm archipelago, approximately south of Nynäshamn.

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Júpiter-class minelayer

Júpiter-class minelayers was a group of four vessels of the Spanish Republican Navy built during the Spanish Republic.

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Jewell Island (Maine)

Jewell Island is a small island in Casco Bay, Maine, United States.

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John Hart (actor)

John Lewis Hart (December 13, 1917 – September 20, 2009), also credited as John Hilton was an American film and television actor.

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John Quilliam

Captain John Quilliam RN (born Marown, Isle of Man 29 September 1771 - died Michael, Isle of Man 10 October 1829) was a Royal Navy officer and the First Lieutenant on HMS ''Victory'' at the Battle of Trafalgar.

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John Taylor Lewis

John Taylor Lewis (October 28, 1894 – December 5, 1983) was a lieutenant general in the United States Army.

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John Williams Gunnison

John Williams Gunnison (November 11, 1812 – October 26, 1853) was an American military officer and explorer.

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Johnny Wiseman

John "Johnny" Wiseman, MC (27 January 1916 – 23 August 2005) was a British Army officer and Second World War Special Air Service (SAS) veteran, where he saw action in the long range desert raiding parties of the North African Campaign, then in front line support of the invasion of Sicily and Italy during which he was awarded the Military Cross, followed by commando operations deep behind German lines following the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.

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Johore Battery

The Johore Battery was a former British coastal artillery battery located in Changi on the easternmost side of mainland Singapore.

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Joint Expeditionary Base Fort Story

Joint Expeditionary Base-Fort Story, commonly called simply Fort Story is a sub-installation of Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek–Fort Story, which is operated by the United States Navy.

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Jomala

Jomala is a municipality of Åland, an autonomous territory of Finland.

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Joseph A. Redding

Joseph A. Redding (June 7, 1894—February 24, 1984) was a United States Army Major General who served as commander of the Army National Guard’s 39th Infantry Division.

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Juwana Morto

Juwana Morto is former coastal artillery battery on the island of Aruba.

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Kaiman-class torpedo boat

The Kaiman class were high-seas torpedo boats built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy between 1904 and 1910.

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Karlskrona Artillery Corps

Karlskrona Artillery Corps (Karlskrona artillerikår) was a coastal artillery unit of the Swedish Navy which operated between 1893 and 1902.

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King's Bastion

King's Bastion is a coastal bastion on the western front of the fortifications of the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, protruding from the Line Wall Curtain.

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Kingdom of Hawaii

The Kingdom of Hawaiʻi originated in 1795 with the unification of the independent islands of Hawaiʻi, Oʻahu, Maui, Molokaʻi, and Lānaʻi under one government.

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Kingisepp–Gdov Offensive

This is a sub-article to Leningrad–Novgorod Offensive and Battle of Narva. The Kingisepp–Gdov Offensive was a campaign between the Soviet Leningrad Front and the German 18th Army fought for the eastern coast of Lake Peipus and the western banks of the Narva River from 1 February till 1 March 1944.

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Kingsbridge Armory

The Kingsbridge Armory, also known as the Eighth Regiment Armory, is located on West Kingsbridge Road in the New York City borough of the Bronx.

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Kotor Mutiny

The Kotor Mutiny or Cattaro Mutiny was an unsuccessful revolt by sailors of part of the Austro-Hungarian Navy in early 1918, inspired by the October Revolution.

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Krasnaya Gorka fort

Krasnaya Gorka (Красная Горка meaning red Hill) is a coastal artillery fortress west of Lomonosov, Russia on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland, opposite Kotlin Island and the Baltic Fleet's base at Kronstadt.

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Krepost Sveaborg

The Krepost Sveaborg was an Imperial Russian system of land and coastal fortifications constructed around Helsinki during the First World War.

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Kriegsmarine

The Kriegsmarine (literally "War Navy") was the navy of Germany from 1935 to 1945.

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Kristiansand

Kristiansand, historically Christianssand and Christiansand, is a city and municipality in Norway.

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Kristiansand Cannon Museum

Kristiansand Cannon Museum is a museum at Møvik, 8 kilometers west of the town centre of Kristiansand, Norway.

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Kuivasaari

Kuivasaari (Torra Mjölö in Swedish) is a Finnish island in the Gulf of Finland, near Helsinki.

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Kystjegerkommandoen

Kystjegerkommandoen (KJK: in English "Coastal Ranger Commando") is a Norwegian amphibious unit trained to operate in littoral combat theatres, filling the role of a marine corps and coastal artillery.

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L'Adroit-class destroyer

The L'Adroit-class destroyer was a group of fourteen French Navy destroyers (torpilleur) laid down in 1925–26 and commissioned from 1928 to 1931.

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Land Coastal Defence

Land Coastal Defence (or Land Coastal Command, Lądowa Obrona Wybrzeża, abbr. LOW), commanded by Colonel Stanisław Dąbek (land forces), was an important unit tasked with the defence of Poland's Baltic Sea coast during the 1939 invasion.

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Lascaris towers

The Lascaris Towers (Torrijiet ta' Lascaris) are a series of mostly small coastal watchtowers built in Malta by the Order of Saint John between 1637 and 1652.

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Laurie York Erskine

Laurie York Erskine (23 June 1894 – 30 November 1976) was a popular boys adventure author, educator, and co-founder of the Solebury School in New Hope, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Leif Welding-Olsen

Leif Welding-Olsen (15 August 1895 – 8 April 1940) was the commander of the Royal Norwegian Navy patrol boat HNoMS ''Pol III''.

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List of coastal defence ships of World War II

"Coastal defence ship" is a catchall category for warships with overlapping characteristics and duties, grouped here for purposes of concision and comparison.

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List of coastal fortifications of County Cork

A number of coastal fortifications were built in County Cork, Ireland, to defend the county's coastline, and in particular the strategic berths at Cork Harbour, Kinsale Harbour, Berehaven and Bantry Bay.

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List of equipment of the United States Army during World War II

The following is a list of equipment of the United States Army during World War II which includes artillery, vehicles and vessels.

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List of field artillery regiments of the United States

This list attempts to list the field artillery regiments of the United States Army and United States Marine Corps.

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List of forts in Mumbai

The following is a list of forts in Mumbai.

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List of friendly fire incidents

There have been many thousands of friendly fire incidents in recorded military history, accounting for an estimated 2% to 20% of all casualties in battle.

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List of Gato-class submarines

List of ''Gato''-class submarines and their dispositions.

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List of maritime disasters in World War II

A maritime disaster is an event which usually involves a ship or ships and can involve military action.

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List of National Historic Landmarks in New Jersey

This is a List of National Historic Landmarks in New Jersey and other landmarks of equivalent landmark status in the state.

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List of National Monuments of the United States

There are 129 protected areas in the United States known as national monuments.

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List of shipwrecks in 1877

The list of shipwrecks in 1877 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1877.

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List of shipwrecks in 1893

The list of shipwrecks in 1893 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1893.

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List of shipwrecks in 1895

The list of shipwrecks in 1895 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1895.

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List of shipwrecks in 1985

The list of shipwrecks in 1985 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1985.

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List of shipwrecks in April 1940

The list of shipwrecks in April 1940 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during April 1940.

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List of shipwrecks in April 1942

The list of shipwrecks in April 1942 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during April 1942.

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List of shipwrecks in March 1939

The list of shipwrecks in March 1939 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during March 1939.

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Lista Air Station

Lista Air Station (Lista flystasjon) was a military airbase situated on the Lista peninsula in Farsund, Norway.

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Lockheed P-2 Neptune

The Lockheed P-2 Neptune (designated P2V by the United States Navy prior to September 1962) was a maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare (ASW) aircraft.

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Long Point (Cape Cod)

Long Point is a peninsula located in Provincetown, Massachusetts, at the extreme tip of Cape Cod, as it curls back in on itself to create Provincetown Harbor.

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Longhope, Orkney

Longhope is a coastal settlement on the island of South Walls, in Orkney, Scotland.

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Luigi Biancheri

Luigi Biancheri (January 31, 1891 – December 12, 1950) was an Italian admiral during World War II.

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Luigi Mascherpa

Luigi Mascherpa (April 15, 1893 – May 24, 1944) was an Italian admiral during World War II.

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M1895

M1895, or Model of 1895, can refer to.

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Maizuru Naval District

was one of four main administrative districts of the pre-war Imperial Japanese Navy.

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Malta Coast Artillery

The Malta Coast Artillery was a coastal artillery unit in the British Army which existed from 1802 to 1815 in Malta, then a British protectorate and later a colony.

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Maltese Militia Coast Artillery

The Maltese Militia Coast Artillery was a coastal artillery militia unit in the British Army which existed from 1801 to 1802 in Malta, then a British protectorate.

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Mannerheim Line

The Mannerheim Line (Mannerheim-linja, Mannerheimlinjen) was a defensive fortification line on the Karelian Isthmus built by Finland against the Soviet Union.

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Marina Nazionale Repubblicana

The Marina Nazionale Repubblicana was the navy of the Italian Social Republic, a German puppet state in Italy.

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Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.10

The Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.10 (also known as the Høver M.F.10, after its designer) was a military trainer seaplane built in Norway in 1929.

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Maruoka Domain Battery

was a Bakumatsu period coastal artillery battery erected by Maruoka Domain on the Sea of Japan coast in what is now the Mikuni neighborhood of the city of Sakai, Fukui in the Hokuriku region of northern Japan.

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Mary Rae Knowling

Mary Rae Knowling (–) was a South African medical doctor, Anglican and philanthropist.

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Master gunner

Master gunner is an appointment of the warrant officer rank in the British and United States armed forces.

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Maxim Gorky Fortresses

Maxim Gorky I and Maxim Gorky II (Russian designation: Coast Batteries #30 and #35) were coastal batteries used by the Soviet Union in the Crimea during World War II in the Crimean Campaign.

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Mäkiluoto

Mäkiluoto or MacElliot (Makilo) is a Finnish island in the Gulf of Finland, just to the south of Porkkala peninsula.

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Medal of Honor: European Assault

Medal of Honor: European Assault is a first-person shooter video game, the eighth installment in the ''Medal of Honor'' series.

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Mediterranean Squadron (United States)

The Mediterranean Squadron, also known as the Mediterranean Station, was part of the United States Navy in the 19th century that operated in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Mellieħa

Mellieħa (il-Mellieħa) is a large village or small town in the Northern Region of Malta.

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Midvale Steel

Midvale Steel was a succession of steel-making corporations whose flagship plant was the Midvale Steel Works at Nicetown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which operated from 1867 until 1976.

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Military career of Dwight D. Eisenhower

The military career of Dwight D. Eisenhower encompassed over forty six years of active service.

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Monrad Wallgren

Monrad Charles Wallgren (April 17, 1891September 18, 1961) was an American politician who served as the 13th Governor of Washington from 1945 to 1949, as well as representing that state in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate.

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Montauk Air Force Station

Montauk Air Force Station was a US military base at Montauk Point on the eastern tip of Long Island, New York.

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Monterey Bay Academy

Monterey Bay Academy (MBA) is a private school in Santa Cruz County, California.

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Mortier 280 mm TR de Schneider sur affût-chenilles St Chamond

The Mortier 280 mm TR de Schneider sur affût-chenilles St Chamond was a French self-propelled siege mortar designed during the First World War and used during the Second World War.

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Mortier de 270 mm modèle 1885

The Mortier de 270 mm modèle 1885 was a French heavy mortar employed as siege artillery during the First world war.

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Mortier de 270 mm modèle 1889

The Mortier de 270 mm modèle 1889 sur affût G was a heavy mortar originally employed as coastal artillery and later converted to the siege artillery role.

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Moses Williams (Medal of Honor)

Moses Williams (October 10, 1845 – August 23, 1899) was a Buffalo Soldier in the United States Army and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Indian Wars of the western United States.

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MS Seattle

MS Seattle was a German cargo ship.

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MT explosive motorboat

The explosive motorboat MT (Motoscafo da Turismo) also known as barchino (Italian for "little boat"), was a series of small explosive motor boats developed by the Italian Royal Navy, which was based on its predecessors, the prototype boat MA (Motoscafo d'Assalto) and the MAT (Motoscafo Avio Trasportato), an airborne prototype.

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Mumbles Hill

Mumbles Hill is a hill near the south eastern tip of the Gower Peninsula, Wales.

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Murray Battery

Murray Battery was an artillery battery located on Battery Path, beneath Government Hill in Central, Hong Kong.

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Nahant, Massachusetts

Nahant is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Namsos Campaign

The Namsos Campaign, in Namsos, Norway, and its surrounding area involved heavy fighting between Anglo-French and Norwegian naval and military forces on the one hand, and German military, naval and air forces on the other in April and early May 1940.

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Napier of Magdala Battery

Napier of Magdala Battery is a former coastal artillery battery on the south-western cliffs of the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar, overlooking the Bay of Gibraltar.

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National Fortifications Heritage

The National Fortifications Heritage (Nasjonale festningsverk) is a division with the Norwegian Defence Estates Agency responsible for sixteen military fortifications in Norway designated as heritage sites.

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Oahu

This is a list of properties and districts on the Hawaiian island of Oahu that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Naval artillery

Naval artillery is artillery mounted on a warship, originally used only for naval warfare, later also for naval gunfire support against targets on land, and for anti-aircraft use.

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Naval Battle of Casablanca

The Naval Battle of Casablanca was a series of naval engagements fought between American ships covering the invasion of North Africa and Vichy French ships defending the neutrality of French Morocco in accordance with the Second Armistice at Compiègne during World War II.

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Naval Battle of the Han River (1951)

The Naval Battle of the Han River (28–30 September 1951) was fought during the Korean War.

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Naval brigade

A naval brigade is a body of sailors serving in a ground combat role to augment land forces.

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Naval history of World War II

In the beginning of World War II the Royal Navy was still the strongest navy in the world, with the largest number of warships built and with naval bases across the globe.

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Naval Staff (Sweden)

Naval Staff (Marinstaben, abbreviated MS) was the staff of the Chief of the Swedish Navy.

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Naval warfare in the Winter War

The Naval warfare in the Winter War was the naval part of the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union from 30 November 1939 to 13 March 1940.

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Naxxar Entrenchment

The Naxxar Entrenchment (Trunċiera fin-Naxxar) is an infantry entrenchment in Naxxar, Malta, which was built in the 18th century by the Order of Saint John.

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New Mole Battery

New Mole Battery was an artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.

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New Spain

The Viceroyalty of New Spain (Virreinato de la Nueva España) was an integral territorial entity of the Spanish Empire, established by Habsburg Spain during the Spanish colonization of the Americas.

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New York Provincial Company of Artillery

During the American Revolutionary War, the New York Provincial Company of Artillery was created by the New York Provincial Congress in 1776 to defend New York City from British attack.

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Newfoundland expedition

The Newfoundland expedition (French: Expédition à Terre-Neuve, Spanish: Expedición a Terranova) was a series of fleet manoeuvres and amphibious landings in the coasts of Newfoundland, Labrador and Saint Pierre and Miquelon carried out by the combined French and Spanish fleets during the French Revolutionary Wars.

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Nicholas Bayard Dill

Sir Nicholas Bayard Dill (28 December 1905 – 10 September 1993), known as Bayard Dill, was a prominent Bermudian politician, lawyer and military officer.

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Nigg Bay

Nigg Bay (Camas Neig) is a large, relatively shallow sandy bay, consisting of mudflats, saltmarsh and wet grassland, located on the north east coast of the Cromarty Firth, east of Invergordon, in the district of Ross and Cromarty and in the Scottish council area of Highland.

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Noel Stephen Paynter

Air Commodore Noel Stephen "Peter" Paynter (26 December 1898 – 16 March 1998) was a former chief intelligence officer of Bomber Command.

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North Carolina Baptist Assembly

The North Carolina Baptist Assembly is a Christian retreat owned and operated by the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, the state's largest denomination.

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Northern Front (Soviet Union)

The Northern Front (Северный фронт) was a front of the Red Army during the Second World War.

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NRP Afonso de Albuquerque

The NRP Afonso de Albuquerque was a warship of the Portuguese Navy, named after the 16th-century Portuguese navigator Afonso de Albuquerque.

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Obukhovskii 12"/52 Pattern 1907 gun

The Obukhovskii 12"/52 Pattern 1907 gun was a, 52-caliber naval gun.

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October 1950

The following events occurred in October 1950.

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Officer Candidate School (United States Army)

The United States Army's Officer Candidate School (OCS), located at Fort Benning, Georgia, trains, assesses, and evaluates potential commissioned officers in the U.S. Army, U.S. Army Reserve, and Army National Guard.

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Old Caloundra Light

Old Caloundra Light, also known as Old Caloundra Head Light or Cape Caloundra Light, is an inactive lighthouse located in Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast in South East Queensland, Australia.

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Oozlefinch

The Oozlefinch is the unofficial historic mascot of the Air Defense Artillery – and formerly of the U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps.

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Operation Albion

Operation Albion was the codename for the German air, land and naval operation in October 1917 to occupy the West Estonian Archipelago, part of the Autonomous Governorate of Estonia, Russian Republic.

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Operation Archery

Operation Archery, also known as the Måløy Raid, was a British Combined Operations raid during World War II against German positions on the island of Vågsøy, Norway, on 27 December 1941.

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Operation Crimson

Operation Crimson was a British-led naval operation in World War II, the objective being simultaneous naval bombardment and aerial strikes on Japanese airfields in the Indonesian cities of Sabang, Lhoknga and Kutaraja,Patrick Boniface, HMS Cumberland, page 86, 2006.

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Operation Downfall

Operation Downfall was the proposed Allied plan for the invasion of Japan near the end of World War II.

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Operation Felix

Operation Felix was the codename for a proposed German seizure of Gibraltar during World War II, subject to the co-operation of Spanish caudillo Francisco Franco.

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Operation Inmate

Operation Inmate was an attack by the British Pacific Fleet against Japanese positions on Truk Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean during the Second World War.

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Operation Neuland

Operation Neuland (New Land) was the Kriegsmarine code name for the extension of unrestricted submarine warfare into the Caribbean Sea during World War II.

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Operation Storm

Operation Storm (Operacija Oluja, Операција Олуја) was the last major battle of the Croatian War of Independence and a major factor in the outcome of the Bosnian War.

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Operation Ten-Go

was a Japanese naval operation plan in 1945, consisting of four likely scenarios.

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Operation Zitronella

Operation Zitronella (Lemon Flavour), also known as Operation Sizilien (Sicily), was an eight-hour German raid on Spitzbergen on 8 September 1943.

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Ordóñez guns

Ordóñez guns are a type of coastal artillery that Salvador Diaz Ordóñez, an artillery officer in the Spanish Army, designed in the late 19th Century.

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Oregon boundary dispute

The Oregon boundary dispute or the Oregon Question was a controversy over the political division of the Pacific Northwest of North America between several nations that had competing territorial and commercial aspirations over the region.

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ORP Gryf (1936)

ORP Gryf (English: "Griffin") was a large Polish Navy minelayer, sunk during the 1939 German invasion of Poland.

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PA-class patrol ship (Germany)

The Patrouillenboot Ausland (PA)-class patrol ships were a class of vessels commissioned into the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) in the Second World War.

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Pacific Fleet (Russia)

The Pacific Fleet (Тихоокеанский флот, translit: Tikhookeanskiy flot) is the fleet of the Russian Navy in the Pacific Ocean.

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Panama during World War II

The history of Panama during World War II begins in 1939.

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Panama mount

The term Panama Mount describes a gun mount developed by the U.S. Army in Panama during the 1920s for fixed coastal artillery positions.

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Pappy Boyington

Gregory "Pappy" Boyington (December 4, 1912 – January 11, 1988) was an American combat pilot who was a United States Marine Corps fighter ace during World War II.

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Paramushir

Paramushir (translit, translit, translit, is a volcanic island in the northern portion of Kuril Islands chain in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwest Pacific Ocean. It is separated from Shumshu by the very narrow Second Kuril Strait in the northeast, from Antsiferov by the Luzhin Strait (15 km) to the southwest, from Atlasov in the northwest by, and from Onnekotan in the south by the 40 km wide Fourth Kuril Strait. Its northern tip is from Cape Lopatka at the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula. Its name is derived from the Ainu language, from “broad island” or “populous island”. Severo-Kurilsk, the administrative center of the Severo-Kurilsky district, is the only permanently populated settlement on Paramushir island.

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Parson's Lodge Battery

Parson's Lodge Battery is a coastal battery and fort in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.

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Paul Bunker

Paul Delmont Bunker (May 7, 1881 – March 16, 1943) was an American football player and soldier.

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Peter the Great's Naval Fortress

Peter the Great's naval fortress or the Tallinn-Porkkala defence station was a Russian fortification line, which aimed to block access to the Russian capital Saint Petersburg via the sea.

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Petropavlovsk-class battleship

The Petropavlovsk class, sometimes referred to as the Poltava class, was a class of three pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy during the 1890s.

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Petty warfare

Petty Warfare (Russian: малая война, also transliterated as malaya voyna) is a form of irregular warfare where small units attack the enemy's support operation to ensure that the main force enjoys favorable conditions for decisive battles.

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Philip Rounsevile Alger

Philip Rounsevile Alger (September 29, 1859 – February 23, 1912) was an American Naval officer.

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Plotting room

A plotting room (see photo at top right) was used by the U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps and the Coastal Forces of the Royal Canadian Navy to house a team of soldiers who were engaged in controlling fire for the guns of a coastal artillery battery.

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Point Barracks

Point Barracks is a former a military installation at Portsmouth Point, Hampshire.

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Point-defence

Point-defence (or point-defense; see spelling differences) is the defence of a single object or a limited area, e.g. a ship, building or an airfield, now usually against air attacks and guided missiles.

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Polish Navy order of battle in 1939

This article details the Order of Battle of the Polish Navy prior to the outbreak of World War II and the Polish Defensive War of 1939.

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Porkkalanniemi

Porkkalanniemi (Porkala udd) is a peninsula in the Gulf of Finland, located at Kirkkonummi (Kyrkslätt) in Southern Finland.

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Port of Subic

The Port of Subic Bay is in the Subic Bay Freeport Zone, the former U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay, on Subic Bay in the Philippines.

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Port Townsend, Washington

Port Townsend is a city in Jefferson County, Washington, United States.

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Project Hula

Project Hula was a program of World War II in which the United States transferred naval vessels to the Soviet Union in anticipation of the Soviets eventually joining the war against Japan, specifically in preparation for planned Soviet invasions of southern Sakhalin and the Kuril islands.

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Prospect Camp, Bermuda

Prospect Camp, also referred to as Prospect Garrison, was the main infantry camp of the Bermuda Garrison.

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Qatari Emiri Navy

The Qatari Emiri Navy (QEN), also called the Qatari Emiri Naval Forces (QENF), is the naval branch of the armed forces of the State of Qatar.

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QF 12-pounder 12 cwt naval gun

The QF 12-pounder 12-cwt gun (abbreviated as Q.F. 12-pdr. (12-cwt.), the War Office, 1925) was a common, versatile calibre naval gun introduced in 1894 and used until the middle of the 20th century.

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QF 3 pounder Nordenfelt

The QF 3 pounder Nordenfelt was a light 47 mm quick-firing naval gun and coast defence gun of the late 19th century used by many countries.

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QF 3-pounder Hotchkiss

The QF 3-pounder Hotchkiss or in French use Canon Hotchkiss à tir rapide de 47 mm were a family of long-lived light naval guns introduced in 1886 to defend against new, small and fast vessels such as torpedo boats and later submarines.

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QF 4 inch Mk V naval gun

The QF 4 inch Mk V gunMk V.

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QF 4 inch naval gun Mk I – III

The QF 4-inch gun Mks I, II, IIII.e. Mark 1, 2 and 3.

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QF 4.7 inch Mk V naval gun

The QF 4.7 inch Gun Mark V originated as a 45-calibre naval gun designed by the Elswick Ordnance Company for export customers and known as the Pattern Y.DiGiulian.

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QF 4.7-inch Gun Mk I–IV

The QF 4.7 inch Gun Mks I, II, III, and IVMk I.

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QF 5.25 inch gun

The QF 5.25 inch Mark I gun was the heaviest dual-purpose gun used by the Royal Navy during the Second World War.

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QF 6 inch /40 naval gun

The QF 6 inch 40 calibre naval gun (Quick-Firing) was used by many United Kingdom-built warships around the end of the 19th century and start of the 20th century.

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QF 6 pounder 10 cwt gun

The British QF (quick-firing) 6 pounder 10 cwt gun"6 pounder" refers to approximate weight of projectiles, which was a traditional British way of denoting small guns.

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QF 6-pounder Hotchkiss

The Ordnance QF Hotchkiss 6 pounder gun Mk I and Mk II or QF 6 pounder 8 cwt were a family of long-lived light naval guns introduced in 1885 to defend against new, small and fast vessels such as torpedo boats and later submarines.

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Queen Emma of Hawaii

Emma Kalanikaumakaamano Kaleleonālani Naea Rooke of Hawaii (January 2, 1836 – April 25, 1885) was queen consort of King Kamehameha IV from 1856 to his death in 1863.

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Quick-firing gun

A quick-firing gun (in U.S. parlance, 'rapid-firing') is an artillery piece, typically a gun or howitzer, which has several characteristics which taken together mean the weapon can fire at a fast rate.

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Radar

Radar is an object-detection system that uses radio waves to determine the range, angle, or velocity of objects.

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RAF Elsham Wolds

Royal Air Force Station Elsham Wolds or more simply RAF Elsham Wolds is a former Royal Air Force station in England, which operated in the First World War and the Second World War.

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Raid on Constanța

The Raid on Constanța was an attack of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet on the Romanian port of Constanța on 26 June 1941, resulting in the only encounter between major warships during the naval war in the Black Sea in World War II.

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Raid on Genoa

The Raid on Genoa was a minor naval engagement fought in the harbour of the Italian city of Genoa during the first year of the French Revolutionary Wars.

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Redan

Redan (a French word for "projection", "salient") is a term related to fortifications.

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Redoubt

A redoubt (historically redout) is a fort or fort system usually consisting of an enclosed defensive emplacement outside a larger fort, usually relying on earthworks, although some are constructed of stone or brick.

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Republic of Korea Navy

No description.

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Revenge-class battleship

The Revenge-class battleships (listed as Royal Sovereign class in several editions of Jane's Fighting Ships, as with the 1919 and 1931 editions, and sometimes also known as the "R" class) were five battleships of the Royal Navy, ordered as the First World War loomed, and launched in 1914–16.

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RML 10 inch 18 ton gun

The RML 10 inch guns Mk I - Mk II were large rifled muzzle-loading guns designed for British battleships and monitors in the 1860s to 1880s.

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RML 7 inch gun

The RML 7 inch guns were various designs of medium-sized rifled muzzle-loading guns used to arm small to medium-sized British warships in the late 19th century, and some were used ashore for coast defence.

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RML 8 inch 9 ton gun

The British RML 8 inch 9 ton guns Mark I - Mark III were medium rifled muzzle-loading guns used to arm smaller ironclad warships and coast defence batteries in the later 19th century.

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Road to the Reich

Road to the Reich is a 10-minute 1945 Canadian documentary film, directed and produced by Tom Daly for the National Film Board of Canada as part of the wartime Canada Carries On series.

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Robert Elliott-Cooper

Sir Robert Elliott-Cooper, (29 January 1845 – 16 February 1942) was a British civil engineer.

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Robert Emmet Callan

Major General Robert Emmet Callan was a distinguished United States Army Coast Artillery officer who served in the United States and overseas in places such as Puerto Rico, France and the Philippines.

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Robert Henry Best

Robert Henry Best (April 16, 1896 – December 16, 1952) was an American foreign correspondent who covered events in Europe for American media outlets during the Interwar period.

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Rock House Army Camp

Rock House Army Camp is a military base located at Modera, north of Colombo in the Western Province of Sri Lanka.

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Romolo Polacchini

Romolo Polacchini (May 20, 1897 – October 16, 1968) was an Italian admiral during World War II.

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Roquebert's expedition to the Caribbean

Roquebert's expedition to the Caribbean, was an unsuccessful operation by a French naval squadron to transport supplies to Guadeloupe in December 1809 at the height of the Napoleonic Wars.

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Round Hill (Dartmouth, Massachusetts)

Round Hill is a location in Dartmouth, Massachusetts of historical significance.

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Royal Australian Artillery

The Royal Regiment of Australian Artillery, normally referred to as the Royal Australian Artillery (RAA), is a Regiment of the Australian Army descended from the original colonial artillery units prior to Australia's federation.

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Royal Bermuda Regiment

The Royal Bermuda Regiment (RBR), formerly the Bermuda Regiment, is the home defence unit of the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda.

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Royal Citadel, Plymouth

The Royal Citadel in Plymouth, Devon, England, was built in the late 1660s to the design of Sir Bernard de Gomme.

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Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom

The Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom was a committee formed in 1859 to enquire into the ability of the United Kingdom to defend itself against an attempted invasion by a foreign power, and to advise the British Government on the remedial action required.

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Royal Garrison Artillery

The Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) was formed in 1899 as a distinct arm of the British Army's Royal Regiment of Artillery serving alongside the other two arms of the Regiment, the Royal Field Artillery (RFA) and the Royal Horse Artillery (RHA).

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Russian battleship Gangut (1911)

Gangut (Гангут) was both the lead ship of the dreadnoughts of the Imperial Russian Navy built before World War I and the last of her class to be completed.

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Russian battleship Imperator Aleksandr III

Imperator Aleksandr III (Emperor Alexander III) was the third, and last, ship of the dreadnoughts of the Imperial Russian Navy.

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Russian battleship Imperatritsa Mariya

Imperatritsa Mariya (Императрица Мария: Empress Maria) was one of three dreadnoughts built for the Imperial Russian Navy, lead ship of her class.

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Russian battleship Petropavlovsk (1911)

The Russian battleship Petropavlovsk (Петропавловск) was the third of the four dreadnoughts built before World War I for the Imperial Russian Navy, the first Russian class of dreadnoughts.

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Russian battleship Slava

Slava (Слава "Glory") was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the Imperial Russian Navy, the last of the five s. Commissioned too late to participate in the Battle of Tsushima during the Russo-Japanese War, she survived while all of her sister ships were either sunk during the battle or surrendered to the Imperial Japanese Navy.

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Salpa Line

The Salpa Line (Salpalinja, literally Bolt-line; Salpalinjen), or its official name, Suomen Salpa (Finland's Bolt), is a bunker line on the eastern border of Finland.

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Salvador Diaz Ordóñez

Salvador Diaz Ordóñez y Escandón (1845–1911) was an artillery officer in the Spanish Army and the designer of several pieces of artillery, the Ordóñez guns.

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Samuel C. Armstrong

Samuel Chapman Armstrong (January 30, 1839 – May 11, 1893), the son of Hawaiian missionaries, rose through the Union Army during the American Civil War, to become a General leading units of African American soldiers.

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Sanji Iwabuchi

was a Rear Admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Pacific War of World War II.

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Santa Clara Battery

The Santa Clara Battery, with its two remaining coastal guns, one a caliber 305mm (12") Ordóñez HSE Modelo 1892 rifle and the other a 280mm (11") Krupp, stands on the grounds of the Hotel Nacional de Cuba, in Vedado, Havana.

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Santa Cruz de Nuca

Santa Cruz de Nuca (or Nuca), was a Spanish settlement and the first European colony in British Columbia.

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Sõrve Peninsula

Sõrve Peninsula (Sõrve poolsaar) is a peninsula which forms the southernmost section of the Estonian island Saaremaa.

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Söderarm

Söderarm is the name of a deactivated Swedish lighthouse station and its surrounding small archipelago in the west part of the sea of Åland.

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Schwerer Gustav

Schwerer Gustav (English: Heavy Gustaf) was a German 80 cm (31.5 in.) railway gun.

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Sea Skua

The Sea Skua is a British lightweight short-range air-to-surface missile (ASM) designed for use from helicopters against ships.

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Second Battle of Tripoli Harbor

The Second Battle of Tripoli Harbor, was a naval action during a naval blockade which took place in Tripoli Harbor in 1804.

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Shelly Battery

Shelly Battery was a coastal battery located at Shelly Head, Manly, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Siege of Malta (World War II)

The Siege of Malta in the Second World War was a military campaign in the Mediterranean Theatre.

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Siege of Port Hudson

The Siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana (May 22 – July 9, 1863), was the final engagement in the Union campaign to recapture the Mississippi in the American Civil War.

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Silent Raiders

Silent Raiders is a 1954 low budget American war film directed, starring and co-produced by Richard Bartlett.

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Singapore strategy

The Singapore strategy was a naval defence policy of the British Empire that evolved in a series of war plans from 1919 to 1941.

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SLN Dockyard

Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) Dockyard is the largest naval base of the Sri Lanka Navy and a major shipyard located in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka.

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SMS Deutschland (1904)

SMS Deutschland (His Majesty's Ship Germany) was the first of five pre-dreadnought battleships built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy).

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South Foreland

South Foreland is a chalk headland on the Kent coast of southeast England.

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Soviet Navy

The Soviet Navy (Military Maritime Fleet of the USSR) was the naval arm of the Soviet Armed Forces.

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Soviet submarine S-363

Soviet submarine S-363 was a Soviet Navy of the Baltic Fleet, which became famous under the designation U 137 when it ran aground on 27 October 1981 on the south coast of Sweden, approximately from Karlskrona, one of the larger Swedish naval bases.

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Spanish cruiser Castilla

Castilla was an unprotected cruiser of the Spanish Navy that fought in the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish–American War.

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Spanish cruiser Don Antonio de Ulloa

Don Antonio de Ulloa was a unprotected cruiser of the Spanish Navy that fought in the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish–American War.

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Spanish cruiser Vizcaya

Vizcaya was an armored cruiser of the Spanish Navy that fought at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish–American War.

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Spanish destroyer Plutón

Plutón, was an of the Spanish Navy that fought at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish–American War.

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Spåkenes coastal fort

Spåkenes fort is a ruined coastal fortress in northern Norway.

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Special Service Battalion

The Special Service Battalion (SSB) is a South African military unit formed on 1 May 1933 under the patronage of Oswald Pirow, Minister of Defence.

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Spurn

Spurn is a narrow sand tidal island located off the tip of the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England that reaches into the North Sea and forms the north bank of the mouth of the Humber Estuary.

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Sri Lanka Artillery

The Sri Lanka Artillery (SLA) is the artillery arm of the Sri Lanka Army.

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SS Czar

SS Czar, or Царь in Russian, was an ocean liner for the Russian American Line before World War I. The ship was later known as Estonia for the Baltic American Line, Pułaski for the Gdynia America Line and as a British Ministry of War Transport troopship, and as Empire Penryn after World War II.

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SS King Orry (1913)

TSS (RMS) King Orry (III) – the third ship in the history of the Company to bear the name – was a passenger steamer which served with the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company, until she was sunk during the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940.

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SS Uganda (1952)

SS Uganda was a British steamship that had a varied and notable career.

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St Catherine's Fort

St Catherine's Fort is a 19th century Palmerston Fort, located on St Catherine's Island, at Tenby, West Wales.

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Stanley R. Mickelsen

Stanley Raymond Mickelsen (1895 - 1966) was an American military leader.

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Stephen W. Thompson

Stephen W. Thompson (March 20, 1894 – October 9, 1977) was an American aviator of World War I. Flying as a gunner on a French aircraft in February 1918, he became the first member of the United States military to shoot down an enemy aircraft.

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Stone frigate

Informally, a stone frigate is a naval establishment on land.

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Structure of the Danish Armed Forces in 1989

The following article depicts the structure of the Danish Armed Forces in 1989 by service branch.

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Sunchado cannons

Sunchado cannons (or zunchado), meaning wrapped, belted, banded, or built-up, described Spanish coastal artillery weapons constructed in the third quarter of the 19th century.

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Sunset District, San Francisco

The Sunset District is a neighborhood located in the west-central area of San Francisco, California, United States.

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Swedish Coastal Artillery

The Swedish Coastal Artillery (Kustartilleriet, KA) has its origin in the Archipelago Artillery that was raised in 1866.

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Sydney Harbour defences

Sydney Harbour was protected by coastal batteries and other fixed defences from the early 19th century until the 1960s.

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Tantalus (Oahu)

Mount Tantalus (Puu-ohia)Edward B. Scott, "The Saga of the Sandwich Islands".

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Tōdō Takayuki

was a Japanese daimyō of the late Edo period.

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Ted Serong

Brigadier Francis Philip "Ted" Serong, (11 November 1915 – 1 October 2002) was a senior officer of the Australian Army.

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Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907

The Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c.9) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed the auxiliary forces of the British Army by transferring existing Volunteer and Yeomanry units into a new Territorial Force (TF); and disbanding the Militia to form a new Special Reserve of the Regular Army.

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Territory of Hawaii

The Territory of Hawaii or Hawaii Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from August 12, 1898, until August 21, 1959, when most of its territory, excluding Palmyra Island and the Stewart Islands, was admitted to the Union as the fiftieth U.S. state, the State of Hawaii.

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The Eve of St. Mark

The Eve of St Mark is a 1942 play by Maxwell Anderson set during World War II.

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The Gap (Sydney)

The Gap is an ocean cliff on the South Head peninsula in eastern Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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The Guns of Navarone (novel)

The Guns of Navarone is a 1957 novel about the Second World War by Scottish writer Alistair MacLean that was made into the film The Guns of Navarone in 1961.

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Third Battle of Manzanillo

The Third Battle of Manzanillo was a battle fought in the harbor of Manzanillo, Cuba on July 18, 1898.

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Thorn Island

Thorne Island is a rocky islet, part of the Community of Angle, Pembrokeshire, Wales.

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Thorpeness

Thorpeness is a village in the county of Suffolk, England.

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Tokyo Bay

is a bay located in the southern Kantō region of Japan, and spans the coasts of Tokyo, Kanagawa Prefecture, and Chiba Prefecture.

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Trondheim Airport, Øysand

Trondheim Airport, Øysand (Trondheim flyplass, Øysand) was a military air base situated at Øysand in Melhus, Norway.

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Tung Chung Battery

Tung Chung Battery is a former artillery battery located on Lantau Island in Hong Kong.

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Turku Coastal Regiment

Turku Coastal Regiment (Turun Rannikkorykmentti) was a Finnish coastal artillery unit operating in the Turku area and Archipelago Sea.

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Turret ship

Turret ships were a 19th-century type of warship, the earliest to have their guns mounted in a revolving gun turret, instead of a broadside arrangement.

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Type 3 120 mm 45 caliber naval gun

Type 3 120 mm 45 caliber naval gun was a Japanese naval gun and coast defense gun used on destroyers, submarines and torpedo boats of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War I and World War II.

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Type 38 10 cm cannon

The was a field gun used by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War I, the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.

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Type 45 240 mm howitzer

The was a siege gun used by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War I and World War II.

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Type 88 Surface-to-Ship Missile

The Type 88 Surface-to-Ship Missile (88式地対艦誘導弾, SSM-1) is a truck-mounted anti-ship missile developed by Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in the late 1980s.

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Type 90 240 mm railway gun

The was a large caliber railroad gun acquired by the Imperial Japanese Army from the French arms manufacturer Schneider in 1930.

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U.S. Army Museum of Hawaii

The U.S. Army Museum of Hawaii is housed inside Battery Randolph, a former coastal artillery battery, located at Fort DeRussy Military Reservation.

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U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay

Naval Base Subic Bay was a major ship-repair, supply, and rest and recreation facility of the Spanish Navy and subsequently the United States Navy located in Zambales, Philippines.

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Uniforms and insignia of the Kriegsmarine

The Kriegsmarine was the navy of Nazi Germany prior to and during World War II.

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United States Army Air Service

The United States Army Air ServiceCraven and Cate Vol.

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United States Army Field Artillery School

The United States Army Field Artillery School (USAFAS) trains Field Artillery Soldiers and Marines in tactics, techniques, and procedures for the employment of fire support systems in support of the maneuver commander.

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Uragan-class monitor

The Uragan class (also known as the Bronenosetz class,, "armor carrier" or "warship") was a class of monitors built for the Baltic Fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy.

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USS Arizona (1858)

The first USS Arizona was an iron-hulled, side-wheel merchant steamship.

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USS Baldwin (DD-624)

USS Baldwin (DD-624), was a United States Navy, in service from 1943 to 1946.

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USS Bisbee (PF-46)

USS Bisbee (PF-46) was a United States Navy in commission from 1944 to 1945 and from 1950 to 1951.

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USS Brooklyn (CL-40)

USS Brooklyn (CL-40) was a light cruiser, the lead ship of her class of seven, and the third United States Navy ship to bear its name.

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USS Chicago (CA-136)

USS Chicago (CA-136) was a heavy cruiser laid down on 28 July 1943 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, by the Philadelphia Navy Yard.

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USS Everett (PF-8)

USS Everett (PF-8), a in commission from 1944 to 1945 and from 1950 to 1953, thus far has been the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Everett, Washington.

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USS Glennon (DD-620)

USS Glennon (DD-620) was a, the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for Rear Admiral James H. Glennon, who was a recipient of the Navy Cross.

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USS Gregory (DD-802)

USS Gregory (DD-802) was a ''Fletcher''-class destroyer of the United States Navy, the second Navy ship named for Rear Admiral Francis H. Gregory (1780–1866), who served from the War of 1812 to the Civil War.

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USS Hamilton (DD-141)

The second USS Hamilton (DD–141) was a in the United States Navy following World War I, later reclassified DMS-18 for service in World War II.

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USS Hinsdale (APA-120)

USS Hinsdale (APA-120) was a ''Haskell''-class attack transport of the US Navy.

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USS Howard (DD-179)

USS Howard (DD–179) was a in the United States Navy during World War II.

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USS Lloyd (DE-209)

USS Lloyd (DE-209/APD-63), a of the United States Navy, was named in honor of Ensign William R. Lloyd (1916–1942), who was killed in action while serving aboard the on 6 May 1942 during the Battle of Corregidor.

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USS Maryland (BB-46)

USS Maryland (BB-46), also known as "Old Mary" or "Fighting Mary" to her crewmates, was a. She was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of the seventh state.

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USS Massachusetts (BB-2)

USS Massachusetts (BB-2) was an and the second United States Navy ship comparable to foreign battleships of the time.

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USS Massachusetts (BB-59)

USS Massachusetts (BB-59), known as "Big Mamie" to her crewmembers during World War II, was a battleship of the second ''South Dakota'' class.

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USS Montgomery (C-9)

The fourth USS Montgomery (C-9), the lead ship of her class, was an unprotected cruiser in the United States Navy authorized in the Naval Appropriations Act of September 7, 1888.

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USS Palisade (AM-270)

USS Palisade (AM-270) was an built for the United States Navy during World War II and in commission from 1944 to 1945.

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USS Palmer (DD-161)

USS Palmer (DD-161) was a of the United States Navy, later converted to a minesweeper and reclassified as DMS-5.

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USS Patroon (1859)

USS Patroon was a screw steamer acquired by the United States Navy during the American Civil War.

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USS Saratoga (CV-3)

USS Saratoga (CV-3) was a built for the United States Navy during the 1920s.

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USS Schley (DD-103)

USS Schley (DD-103) was a in the United States Navy during World War I and later designated, APD-14 in World War II.

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USS Silverstein (DE-534)

USS Silverstein (DE-534) was a acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II.

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USS Stockton (DD-646)

USS Stockton (DD-646), a, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for Commodore Robert F. Stockton.

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USS Tanager (AM-5)

USS Tanager (AM-5) was an acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing.

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USS Tillman (DD-641)

USS Tillman (DD-641), a, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for United States Senator Ben Tillman.

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USS Uncas (AT-51)

The second USS Uncas (Ocean Tug No. 51/AT-51/YT-110) was a United States Navy tug in commission from 1898 to 1922.

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USS Willmarth (DE-638)

USS Willmarth (DE-638), a of the United States Navy, was named in honor of Ensign Kenneth Willmarth (1914-1942), who was killed in action when the cruiser was sunk during the Battle of Savo Island on 9 August 1942.

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USS Wyoming (1859)

The first USS Wyoming of the United States Navy was a wooden-hulled screw sloop that fought on the Union side during the American Civil War.

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Valdevaqueros

Valdevaqueros is a village and beach in the municipality of Tarifa in the Province of Cadiz in southern Spain.

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Vardøhus Fortress

Vardøhus Fortress (Vardøhus festning) is located in Vardø Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.

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Vaxholm Coastal Artillery Regiment

The Vaxholm Coastal Artillery Regiment (Vaxholms kustartilleriregemente), designation KA 1, was a Swedish Navy coastal artillery regiment of the Swedish Armed Forces which operated between 1902 and 2000.

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Väinö Valve

Väinö Lahja Richard Valve (until 1915 Vähätupa; 28 December 1895 — 11 March 1995) was a Finnish general, navy commander and the last living member of the Royal Prussian Jägerbattalion 27 formed from Finnish volunteers.

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Vicente Lim

Vicente Podico Lim (February 24, 1888 – December 31, 1944) was a Filipino Brigadier General and hero during World War II.

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Vickers 10-inch /45 naval gun

The Vickers 10 inch naval gun was used on battleships and armoured cruisers built during the first decade of the 20th century.

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Virginia Capes

The Virginia Capes are the two capes, Cape Charles to the north and Cape Henry to the south, that define the entrance to Chesapeake Bay on the eastern coast of North America.

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Virginius E. Clark

Virginius Evans Clark (February 27, 1886 – January 30, 1948) was an officer in the United States Army, a military aviation pioneer, and a World War I engineer.

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Volunteer Defence Corps (Australia)

The Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) was an Australian part-time volunteer military force of World War II modelled on the British Home Guard.

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Wadamisaki Battery

The is a coastal defense located in Hyōgo-ku, Kobe, Japan.

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Walls of Genoa

The walls of Genoa (mura di Genova in Italian, miage de Zena in Ligurian) constitute in their whole the several circle of walls that protected and defended the city of Genoa, former capital of the homonimous Republic.

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Walter Ohmsen

Walter Ohmsen (7 June 1911 – 19 February 1988) was a highly decorated Oberleutnant zur See in the Kriegsmarine during World War II.

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War of Jenkins' Ear

The War of Jenkins' Ear (known as Guerra del Asiento in Spain) was a conflict between Britain and Spain lasting from 1739 to 1748, with major operations largely ended by 1742.

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Warwick Camp (Bermuda)

'Warwick Camp' was originally the rifle ranges and a training area used by units of the Bermuda Garrison based elsewhere in the colony.

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Weapon mount

A weapon mount is a weapon component used to affix an armament for stabilization.

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Wenningstedt-Braderup

Wenningstedt-Braderup (Söl'ring: Woningstair-Brääderep, Venningsted-Brarup) is a municipality and seaside resort on the island of Sylt in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

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West Blockhouse Fort

West Blockhouse Fort is a mid-19th century coastal artillery fort at West Blockhouse Point, a rocky headland near Dale, Pembrokeshire, to the west of Milford Haven in Wales.

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West Place of Arms

The West Place of Arms is a place-of-arms in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar that was originally used as a troop assembly point.

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Westland Lysander

The Westland Lysander (nickname the "Lizzie") is a British army co-operation and liaison aircraft produced by Westland Aircraft used immediately before and during the Second World War.

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Willard H. Brownson

Rear Admiral Willard Herbert Brownson, USN (July 8, 1845 – March 16, 1935), was a United States Navy officer whose career included service against pirates in Mexico and service during the Spanish–American War.

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Winterton Lighthouse

Winterton Lighthouse is located in Winterton-on-Sea in the English county of Norfolk.

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Wotje Atoll

Wotje Atoll (Marshallese: Wōjjā) is a coral atoll of 75 islands in the Pacific Ocean, and forms a legislative district of the Ratak Chain of the Marshall Islands.

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Yaverland Battery

Yaverland Battery is a battery on the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.

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Yokosuka, Kanagawa

is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

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Yugoslav frigate Split

Split (pennant number VPBR-31) was a ''Koni''-class frigate acquired by the Yugoslav Navy (Jugoslavenska ratna mornarica; JRM) in 1980.

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Yugoslav torpedo boat T3

The Yugoslav torpedo boat T3 was a sea-going torpedo boat that was operated by the Royal Yugoslav Navy between 1921 and 1941.

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Yugoslav torpedo boat T4

The Yugoslav torpedo boat T4 was a seagoing torpedo boat that was operated by the Royal Yugoslav Navy between 1921 and 1932.

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Zbigniew Przybyszewski

Zbigniew Przybyszewski (1907–1952) was a Polish military officer and a Commander in the Polish Navy.

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10 cm/65 Type 98 naval gun

The, also known as the, was a light caliber naval gun of the Imperial Japanese Navy used during World War II.

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10-inch gun M1895

The 10-inch Gun M1895 (254 mm) and its variants the M1888 and M1900 were large coastal artillery pieces installed to defend major American seaports between 1895 and 1945.

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10.5 cm SK C/32 naval gun

The 10.5 cm SK C/32 (SK - Schnelladekanone (quick loading cannon) C - Construktionsjahr (year of design), was a widely used German naval gun on a variety of Kriegsmarine ships during World War II. Originally designed as a surface weapon, it was used in a number of other roles such as anti-aircraft and coastal defence; wet-mounts were developed for U-Boats.

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100 56 TK

100 56 TK or 100 TK ("100 mm, 56 length caliber, turret gun") is a Finnish stationary coastal artillery gun that utilizes the tank turret from the Soviet T-55 tank with its 100 mm D-10 tank gun.

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102mm 60 caliber Pattern 1911

The 102mm 60 caliber Pattern 1911 was a Russian naval gun developed in the years before World War I that armed a variety of warships of the Imperial Russian Navy during World War I. Pattern 1911 guns found a second life on river gunboats and armored trains during the Russian Civil War and as coastal artillery during World War II.

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11th Coast Artillery (United States)

The 11th Coast Artillery was a coast artillery regiment in the United States Army, first constituted in the Regular Army on 27 February 1924.

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11th Coast Regiment RNZA

11th Coast Regiment RNZA was a coastal artillery regiment of the New Zealand Army.

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12"/45 caliber Mark 5 gun

The 12″/45 caliber Mark 5 gun was an American naval gun that first entered service in 1906.

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12-inch coast defense mortar

The 12-inch coast defense mortar was a weapon of caliber emplaced during the 1890s and early 20th century to defend US harbors from seaborne attack.

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12-inch gun M1895

The 12-inch coastal defense gun M1895 (305 mm) and its variants the M1888 and M1900 were large coastal artillery pieces installed to defend major American seaports between 1895 and 1945.

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12.7 cm SK C/34 naval gun

The 12.7 cm SK C/34SK - Schnelladekanone (quick loading cannon); C - Construktionsjahr (year of design) was a German medium-caliber naval gun deployed on destroyers from 1934 through the Second World War.

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120 mm 50 caliber Pattern 1905

The 120 mm 50 caliber Pattern 1905 was a Russian naval gun developed by Vickers for export in the years before World War I that armed a variety of warships of the Imperial Russian Navy.

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120 mm Italian naval gun

Italian 120 millimetre naval guns were standard main armament on Italian destroyers and were widely used on various other ships and coastal artillery.

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120mm 45 caliber Pattern 1892

The 120mm 45 caliber Pattern 1892 was a Russian naval gun developed in the years before the Russo-Japanese War that armed a variety of warships of the Imperial Russian Navy during the Russo-Japanese War and World War I. Guns salvaged from scrapped ships found a second life on river gunboats of the Soviet Navy during the Russian Civil War and as coastal artillery and railway artillery during World War II.

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122 mm gun M1931 (A-19)

122 mm corps gun M1931 (A-19) (122-мм корпусная пушка обр.) was a Soviet field gun, developed in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

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122 mm gun M1931/37 (A-19)

122 mm corps gun M1931/37 (A-19) (122-мм корпусная пушка обр.) was a Soviet field gun developed in late 1930s by combining the barrel of the 122 mm gun M1931 (A-19) and the carriage of the 152 mm howitzer-gun M1937 (ML-20).

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12th Coast Artillery (United States)

The 12th Coast Artillery Regiment was a Coast Artillery regiment in the United States Army, constituted in the Regular Army on 27 February 1924.

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130 53 TK

130 53 TK or 130 TK ("130 mm rifled, 53 length caliber, turret gun") is a Finnish fixed, heavy artillery piece, manufactured by Tampella.

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130 mm coastal defense gun A-222

The A-222 Bereg (Берег; "Coast") is a Russian 130 mm self-propelled coastal artillery gun, which was developed in the 1980s and first shown to the public in 1993 at an arms fair in Abu Dhabi.

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130 mm/50 B13 Pattern 1936

The 130 mm/50 B13 Pattern 1936 was a 50 caliber Soviet Union naval gun.

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13th Coast Artillery (United States)

The 13th Coast Artillery Regiment was a Coast Artillery regiment in the United States Army.

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13th Coast Regiment Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery

The 13th Coast Regiment RNZA was a coastal artillery regiment.

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14 cm/50 3rd Year Type naval gun

The 14 cm/50 3rd Year Type naval gun was a Japanese low-angle weapon introduced during World War I.

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14-inch gun M1907

The 14-inch Gun M1907 (356 mm) and its variants the M1907MI, M1909, and M1910 were large coastal artillery pieces installed to defend major American seaports between 1895 and 1945.

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14th Coast Artillery (United States)

The 14th Coast Artillery Regiment was a Coast Artillery regiment in the United States Army.

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15 cm SK C/28

The 15 cm SK C/28SK - Schiffskanone (ship cannon); C - Construktionsjahr (year of design) was a German, medium-caliber, naval gun used during the Second World War.

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15 cm SK L/40 naval gun

The 15 cm SK L/40SK - Schnelladekanone (quick loading cannon); L - Länge in Kaliber (length in caliber) was a German naval gun that was used as secondary armament on pre-dreadnought battleships, protected cruisers and armored cruisers of the Imperial German Navy in World War I. It was also used as a coast-defence gun during World War II.

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15 cm SK L/45

The 15 cm SK L/45SK - Schnelladekanone (quick loading cannon); L - Länge in Kaliber (length in caliber) was a German naval gun used in World War I and World War II.

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15 cm/45 41st Year Type

The 15 cm/45 41st Year Type was a British naval gun designed by the Elswick Ordnance Company for export in the years before World War I that armed warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

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15 cm/50 41st Year Type

The was a naval gun used by the Imperial Japanese Navy before and during World War II.

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15.5 cm/60 3rd Year Type naval gun

The was a dual-purpose naval gun used by the Imperial Japanese Navy on the s as secondary armament in four triple turrets, the s in five triple turrets (later converted to five twin 20 cm/50 3rd Year Type naval gun turrets) and on the light cruiser ''Ōyodo'' in two triple turrets.

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152 mm 45 caliber Pattern 1892

The 152mm 45 caliber Pattern 1892 was a Russian naval gun developed in the years before the Russo-Japanese War that armed a variety of warships of the Imperial Russian Navy during the Russo-Japanese War and World War I. Guns salvaged from scrapped ships found a second life on river gunboats of the Soviet Navy during the Russian Civil War and as coastal artillery and railway artillery during World War II.

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152 mm gun M1935 (Br-2)

152 mm gun M1935 (Br-2) (152-мм пушка обр.) was a Soviet 152.4 mm heavy gun, produced in limited numbers by the Barrikady Plant in Stalingrad in the late 1930s.

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152 mm howitzer-gun M1937 (ML-20)

The 152 mm howitzer-gun M1937 (ML-20) (152-мм гаубица-пушка обр.), is a Soviet heavy gun-howitzer.

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15th Coast Artillery (United States)

The 15th Coast Artillery Regiment was a Coast Artillery regiment in the United States Army.

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15th Field Artillery Regiment (Canada)

15th Field Artillery Regiment, RCA, is a Primary Reserve Royal Canadian Artillery (RCA) regiment based in Vancouver, British Columbia, at the Bessborough Armoury.

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16"/50 caliber M1919 gun

The 16 inch Gun M1919 (406 mm) was a large coastal artillery piece installed to defend the United States' major seaports between 1920 and 1946.

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16-inch gun M1895

The 16-inch coastal defense gun M1895 was a large artillery piece installed to defend major American seaports.

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16-inch howitzer M1920

The 16-inch howitzer M1920 (406 mm) was a coastal artillery piece installed to defend major American seaports between 1922 and 1947.

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16th Coast Artillery (United States)

The 16th Coast Artillery Regiment was a Coast Artillery regiment in the United States Army, Along with the 15th Coast Artillery, it manned the Harbor Defenses of Honolulu and other fortified sites on Oahu, Hawaii from 1924 until broken up into battalions in August 1944 as part of an Army-wide reorganization.

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17 cm SK L/40 gun

The 17 cm SK L/40SK - Schnelladekanone (quick loading cannon); L - Länge in Kaliber (length in caliber) was a Kaiserliche Marine naval gun that was used on two classes of German pre-dreadnought battleships the Braunschweig-class and the Deutschland-class as their secondary battery.

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1715 in architecture

The year 1715 in architecture involved some significant events.

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176 (Abu Klea) Battery Royal Artillery

176 (Abu Klea) Battery Royal Artillery is the junior currently-existent regular battery of the Royal Artillery.

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180mm Pattern 1931-1933

The 180mm Pattern 1931-1933 were a family of related naval guns of the Soviet Navy in World War II, which were later modified for coastal artillery and railway artillery roles.

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18th Coast Artillery (United States)

The 18th Coast Artillery Regiment was a Coast Artillery regiment in the United States Army.

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1936 Naval Revolt

The 1936 naval revolt (Revolta dos Marinheiros de 1936) or Mutiny on the Tagus ships (Motim dos Barcos do Tejo) was a mutiny in Portugal that occurred on 8 September 1936 aboard the aviso and destroyer.

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1942 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1942.

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1944 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1944.

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19th Coast Artillery (United States)

The 19th Coast Artillery Regiment was a Coast Artillery regiment in the United States Army.

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1st Berwickshire Artillery Volunteers

The Berwickshire Artillery Volunteers were formed in 1860 as part of the Volunteer Force, as result of a French invasion threat.

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1st Light Antiaircraft Missile Battalion

1st Light Antiaircraft Missile Battalion (1st LAAM Bn) was a United States Marine Corps air defense unit equipped with the medium range surface-to-air MIM-23 HAWK Missile System.

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20.3 cm SK C/34 naval gun

The 20.3 cm SK C/34SK - Schnelladekanone (quick loading cannon); C - Construktionsjahr (year of design) was the main battery gun used on all German World War II heavy cruisers.

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20.3 cm/45 Type 41 naval gun

The 20.3 cm/45 Type 41 naval gun was a Japanese Naval gun and coastal artillery used on cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy from the Russo-Japanese War through the end of World War II.

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203 mm /50 Model 1924

The 203 mm /50 Model 1924 was an Italian 203 mm (8 inch) naval gun.

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203 mm 50 caliber Pattern 1905

The 203 mm 50 caliber Pattern 1905 was a Russian naval gun developed by Vickers for export in the years before World War I that armed a variety of warships of the Imperial Russian Navy.

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203mm 45 caliber Pattern 1892

The 203mm 45 caliber Pattern 1892 was a Russian naval gun developed in the years before the Russo-Japanese War that armed a variety of warships of the Imperial Russian Navy during the Russo-Japanese War and World War I. Guns salvaged from scrapped ships found a second life as coastal artillery.

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20th Coast Artillery (United States)

The 20th Coast Artillery Regiment was a Coast Artillery regiment in the United States Army.

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21 cm Mörser 18

The 21 cm Mörser 18 (21 cm Mrs 18), or 21 cm Mörser M 18/L31, was a German heavy howitzer used in the Second World War by independent artillery battalions and batteries.

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21 cm SK L/40

The 21 cm Schnelladekanone Länge 40, abbreviated as 21 cm SK L / 40, was a German naval gun developed in the years before World War I that armed a number of the Imperial German Navy's protected and armored cruisers.

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21 cm SK L/45

The 21 cm Schnelladekanone Länge 45, abbreviated as 21 cm SK L/45 was a German naval gun developed in the years before World War I that armed the armored cruiser SMS Blücher of the Imperial German Navy.

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21st Coast Artillery (United States)

The 21st Coast Artillery Regiment was a Coast Artillery regiment in the United States Army.

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22nd Coast Artillery (United States)

The 22nd Coast Artillery Regiment was a Coast Artillery regiment in the United States Army.

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23rd Coast Artillery (United States)

The 23rd Coast Artillery Regiment was a Coast Artillery regiment in the United States Army.

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24 cm K L/35

The 24 cm K L/35 was a German Naval Gun developed in the years before World War I that armed ships of the Imperial German Navy, Argentine Navy and the Austro-Hungarian Navy.

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24 cm SK L/40

The 24 cm Schnelladekanone Länge 40, abbreviated as 24 cm SK L/40, was a German naval gun developed in the years before World War I that armed a number of the Imperial German Navy's pre-dreadnought battleships and armored cruisers.

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240th Coast Artillery (United States)

The 240th Coast Artillery Regiment was a Coast Artillery Corps regiment in the Maine National Guard.

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241st Coast Artillery (United States)

The 241st Coast Artillery Regiment was a Coast Artillery Corps regiment in the Massachusetts National Guard.

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242nd Coast Artillery (United States)

The 242nd Coast Artillery Regiment was a Coast Artillery Corps regiment in the Connecticut National Guard.

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243rd Coast Artillery (United States)

The 243rd Coast Artillery Regiment was a Coast Artillery Corps regiment in the Rhode Island National Guard.

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245th Coast Artillery (United States)

The 245th Coast Artillery Regiment was a Coast Artillery Corps regiment in the New York National Guard.

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246th Field Artillery (United States)

The 246th Field Artillery was a Field Artillery Branch regiment from 1959 to 2005.

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248th Coast Artillery (United States)

The 248th Coast Artillery Regiment was a Coast Artillery Corps regiment in the Washington National Guard.

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249th Coast Artillery (United States)

The 249th Coast Artillery Regiment was a Coast Artillery Corps regiment in the Oregon National Guard.

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24th Coast Artillery (United States)

The 24th Coast Artillery Regiment was a Coast Artillery regiment in the United States Army.

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250t-class torpedo boat

The 250t class were high-seas torpedo boats built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy between 1913 and 1916.

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250th Coast Artillery (United States)

The 250th Coast Artillery Regiment was a Coast Artillery Corps regiment in the California National Guard.

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254mm 45 caliber Pattern 1891

The 254mm 45 caliber Pattern 1891 was a Russian naval gun developed in the years before the Russo-Japanese War that armed coastal defense ships and pre-dreadnought battleships during the Russo-Japanese War and World War I. Guns salvaged from scrapped ships found a second life as coastal artillery.

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28 cm howitzer L/10

The was a Japanese coastal and siege howitzer.

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28 cm SK C/34 naval gun

The German 28 cm SK C/34SK - Schnelladekanone (quick loading cannon); C - Construktionsjahr (year of design) naval gun was a 283 mm 54.5-caliber built-up gun designed in 1934 used on the s.

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28 cm SK L/40 gun

The 28 cm SK L/40SK - Schnelladekanone (quick loading cannon); L - Länge in Kaliber (length in caliber) was a German naval gun that was used in World War I and World War II as the main armament of the - and pre-dreadnoughts.

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28 cm SK L/45 gun

The 28 cm SK L/45SK - Schnelladekanone (quick loading cannon); L - Länge in Kaliber (length in caliber) was a German naval gun that was used in World War I and World War II.

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28 cm SK L/50 gun

The 28 cm SK L/50 was a German naval gun that was used in World War I and World War II.

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30.5 cm SK L/50 gun

The 30.5 cm SK L/50 gunIn Imperial German Navy gun nomenclature, "SK" (Schnelladekanone) denotes that the gun is quick firing, while the L/50 denotes the length of the gun.

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305 mm /46 Model 1909

The 305 mm /46 Model 1909 was a naval gun that was the main armament of two classes of Italian dreadnought battleships and one unique dreadnought of the Regia Marina built at the beginning of World War I. Many of these guns were later modified to 320 mm Model 1934 and 320 mm Model 1936 naval guns by boring out their barrels, adding new liners and developing new ammunition.

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33rd Regiment Alabama Infantry

The 33rd Regiment Alabama Infantry was an infantry unit from Alabama that served in the Confederate States Army during the U.S. Civil War.

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38 cm SK C/34 naval gun

The 38 cm SK C/34SK - Schnelladekanone (quick loading cannon); C - Construktionsjahr (year of design) naval gun was developed by Germany mid to late 1930s.

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4"/40 caliber gun

The 4"/40 caliber gun (spoken "four-inch-forty-caliber") was used for the secondary batteries on the United States Navy's battleship, protected cruisers, and the armored cruiser, and was the primary batteries on the gunboats,, and.

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4.7"/50 Mark 3 (Armstrong)

The 4.7"/50 caliber Armstong gun (spoken "four-point-seven-inch-fifty-caliber") were used in the secondary batteries of the United States Navy's protected cruisers and during the Spanish–American War.

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40.6 cm SK C/34 gun

The 40.6 cm SK C/34,SK - Schnelladekanone (quick loading cannon); C - Construktionsjahr (year of design) sometimes known as the Adolfkanone (Adolf gun), was a German naval gun, designed in 1934 by Krupp and originally intended for the early H-class battleships.

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41 cm/45 3rd Year Type naval gun

The 41 cm/45 3rd Year Type naval gun was a breech-loading naval gun designed during World War I for the Imperial Japanese Navy.

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5"/38 caliber gun

The Mark 12 5"/38 caliber gun was a United States naval gun.

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5"/50 caliber gun

The 5"/50 caliber gun (spoken "five-inch-fifty-caliber") was the first long barrel gun of the United States Navy and was used in the secondary batteries of the early dreadnought battleships, various protected cruisers, and scout cruisers.

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5"/51 caliber gun

5"/51 caliber guns (spoken "five-inch-fifty-one-caliber") initially served as the secondary battery of United States Navy battleships built from 1907 through the 1920s, also serving on other vessels.

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5-inch gun M1897

The 5-inch gun M1897 (127 mm) and its variant the M1900 were coastal artillery pieces installed to defend major American seaports between 1897 and 1920.

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50th Coast Artillery (United States)

The 50th Coast Artillery Regiment was a Coast Artillery Corps regiment in the Regular Army.

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51st Coast Artillery Regiment

The 51st Coast Artillery Regiment was a Coast Artillery regiment in the United States Army.

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53rd Coast Artillery Regiment

The 53rd Coast Artillery Regiment was a Coast Artillery regiment in the United States Army.

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53rd Troop Command

The 53d Troop Command is an administrative headquarters of the New York Army National Guard that provides direction for units not under another brigade or other formation headquarters (HQ).

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57 55 J

57 55 J or 57 mm, 55 caliber length model Jokinen coastal gun was a Finnish light coastal gun designed during Continuation War.

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6 inch 35 caliber naval gun 1877

6 inch 35 caliber naval gun 1877 was a 152 mm naval gun used by Russian Empire.

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6"/50 caliber gun

The 6"/50 caliber gun Mark 6 and Mark 8 (spoken "six-inch-fifty-caliber") were used for the secondary batteries of the United States Navy's and battleships, as well as the and armored cruisers.

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6-inch gun M1897

The 6-inch gun M1897 (152 mm) and its variants the M1900, M1903, M1905, M1908, and M1 (a.k.a. T2) were coastal artillery pieces installed to defend major American seaports between 1897 and 1945.

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68-pounder gun

The 68-pounder cannon was an artillery piece designed and used by the British Armed Forces in the mid-19th century.

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7"/44 caliber gun

The 7"/44 caliber gun Mark 1 (spoken "seven-inch-forty-four--caliber") and 7"/45 caliber gun Mark 2 (spoken "seven-inch-forty-five--caliber") were used for the secondary batteries of the United States Navy's last generation of pre-dreadnought battleships, the and.

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7.5 cm Flak. L/60

The 7.5 cm Flak.

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75 mm FRC M27

The 75 mm FRC M27 was a Belgian anti-aircraft gun built after the First World War and used during the Second World War.

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75mm 50 caliber Pattern 1892

The 75mm 50 caliber Pattern 1892 was a Russian naval gun developed in the years before the Russo-Japanese War that armed the majority of warships of the Imperial Russian Navy during the Russo-Japanese War and World War I. The majority of ships built or refit between 1890-1922 carried Pattern 1892 guns.

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76 mm air-defense gun M1914/15

The 76-mm air-defense gun M1914/15 (3" зенитная пушка обр.) was the first Russian purpose built anti-aircraft gun.

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8 cm/60 Type 98 naval gun

The was a dual-purpose gun used by the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.

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8"/45 caliber gun

The 8"/45 caliber Mark 6 gun (spoken "eight-inch-forty-five--caliber") were used for the secondary batteries of the United States Navy's last pre-dreadnought battleships and refitted in older armored cruisers main batteries.

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8"/55 caliber gun

The 8"/55 caliber gun (spoken "eight-inch-fifty-five-caliber") formed the main battery of United States Navy heavy cruisers and two early aircraft carriers.

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8-inch M1888

The 8-inch Gun M1888 (203 mm) was a U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps gun, initially deployed 1898-1908 in about 75 fixed emplacements, usually on a disappearing carriage.

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8th Coast Artillery (United States)

The 8th Coast Artillery Regiment was a Coast Artillery Corps regiment in the United States Army, which garrisoned the Harbor Defenses of Portland (HD Portland), Maine 1924–1944, and the Harbor Defenses of Portsmouth, New Hampshire 1924–1940.

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90 mm Gun M1/M2/M3

The 90–mm Gun M1/M2/M3 is an American heavy anti-aircraft and anti-tank gun, playing a role similar to the German 8.8cm Flak 18.

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9th Army Signal Command (United States)

The 9th Army Signal Command is the operational executive agent for Army-wide network operations and security.

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9th Coast Artillery (United States)

The 9th Coast Artillery Regiment was a Coast Artillery regiment in the United States Army.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastal_artillery

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