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    USCGC Decisive (WMEC-629) was a United States Coast Guard medium endurance cutter. Decisive's keel was laid on 12 May 1967, at the Coast Guard Yard in...
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  • (86 m) USCGC Alex Haley, and the now-decommissioned 213-foot (65 m) USCGC Acushnet, and 230-foot (70 m) USCGC Storis, and 205-foot (62 m) USCGC Tamaroa...
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    Pleasence playing the captain of the Soviet ship. In the movie, the USCGC Decisive (WMEC 629) played the part of the Vigilant. The incident is also portrayed...
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  • USCGC Venturous (WMEC-625) USCGC Dependable (WMEC-626) USCGC Vigorous (WMEC-627) USCGC Durable (WMEC-628) USCGC Decisive (WMEC-629) USCGC Alert (WMEC-630) USCGC Ute (WMEC-76)...
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  • Donald Pleasence playing the captain of the Soviet ship, and USCGC Decisive serving as the USCGC Vigilant. It was also the subject of the 1973 book Day of...
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    Station Pascagoula. NAVSTA Pascagoula Base Realignment and Closure USCGC Decisive official website 2001 Naval Station Pascagoula Home page Archive 2005...
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    (WMEC-621) USCGC Dauntless (WMEC-624) USCGC Venturous (WMEC-625) USCGC Dependable (WMEC-626) USCGC Vigorous (WMEC-627) USCGC Decisive (WMEC-629) USCGC Bear...
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  • onto which Kudirka jumped. The actual ship shown in the movie was the USCGC Decisive at its home port of New Castle, New Hampshire. The TS State of Maine...
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    aboard USCGC Decisive as deck watch officer, USCGC Dauntless as executive officer, and tours as commanding officer on USCGC Cape Current and USCGC Resolute...
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    commission in the United States Coast Guard from 1946 to 1972 as the cutter USCGC McCulloch (WAVP-386), later WHEC-386, the fourth ship of the U.S. Coast...
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    2005, Saipan was one of two American military vessels (the other being USCGC Eagle) to participate in the Royal Navy International Fleet Review in the...
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    base) Attacks on the United States Total includes USCGC Taney (WHEC-37), USCGC Reliance (WSC-150), and USCGC Tiger (WSC-152). Unless otherwise stated, all...
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    USCGC Chase, a 378' high endurance cutter anchored in Port-au-Prince Harbor. Numerous 210' and 270' medium endurance cutters, 180' buoy tender USCGC Gentian...
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    where Axis naval forces were perceived as less capable of inflicting decisive damage. After supporting the occupation of Iceland in 1941, Wasp joined...
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    inadvertently pull back on the yoke. This nose-up condition could have been the decisive stall that caused the final plunge into the water. List of accidents and...
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    on 7 June 2014. Retrieved 22 October 2010. Fuller, J. F. C. (1956). The Decisive Battles of the Western World. Volume III. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode....
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  • War, the Army and the Navy, and later the other services, have played a decisive role in the country's history. They helped forge a sense of national unity...
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    things have been named for Taney, including Taney County, Missouri, the USCGC Taney (WPG-37) (although the ship was later renamed during Taney's de-memorialization)...
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    into the war, her capital ships never engaged the German fleet and few decisive submarine actions occurred. The main theater of World War I was the Western...
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    After completing an extensive, four-year repair project on the barque USCGC Eagle in the 1980s, the cutter returned to the yard in 1995 and 1998 for...
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    woman to serve in the Coast Guard during the war and she is the namesake of USCGC Myrtle Hazard. Wartime newspapers erroneously reported that twin sisters...
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  • the Coast Guard cutter where Kerry had received medical treatment, the USCGC Spencer. but relevant Navy documents indicate that the report was likely...
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    Derek Kelsall and had become convinced that multihulls had finally made decisive progress in being competitive in all wind situations. Looking to repeat...
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    South China Sea. Here she patrolled during the Leyte landings and the decisive Battle for Leyte Gulf, and on 24 October sank the passenger-cargo ship...
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    died during the battle. Gawrych, George Walter (2000). The albatross of decisive victory: war and policy between Egypt and Israel in the 1967 and 1973 Arab-Israeli...
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  • Macdonough, Thomas American naval officer. Macdonough's actions during the decisive Battle of Lake Champlain are often cited as a model of tactical preparation...
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    the boiler room immediately aft. The loss of fuel and boiler power were decisive factors in the Bismarck's decision to return to port. In Prince of Wales...
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    killing 63 civilians.: 172  11 August Three USAF jets mistakenly attack the USCGC Point Welcome operating offshore from the DMZ, killing two United States...
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  • aft externals) which filled and the sub sank. All aboard escaped, with decisive action by four crew members resulting in bravery awards. She was raised...
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  • World War II. The Japanese Imperial Navy had a base here and launched decisive attacks against the Allied forces from this strategic position. After seizing...
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