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    USS Gar (SS-206) was the first of the Gar subclass of the Tambor-class submarines to be commissioned for the United States Navy just prior to the country's...
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  • attributed to the "Gar class" USS Gar (SS-206), a World War II submarine Gardiner railway station, Melbourne Gar mine, in Russia Garfield "Gar" Logan, DC Comics...
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  • Evarts-class destroyer escort USS Fleming (DE-271), she served in the Royal Navy from 1943 to 1945 and in the U.S. Navy as USS Garlies (DE-271) from August to...
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    torpedoed and sunk on 9 May 1943 by the US submarine USS Gar off Negros Island's south-west coast. The USS Frank E. Evans was decommissioned at Subic Bay and...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Spearfish
    USS Spearfish (SS-190), a Sargo-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the spearfish, any of several large, powerful...
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  • Thumbnail for German battleship Tirpitz
    Knight's Move). Escorting the convoy were the battleships Duke of York and USS Washington and the carrier Victorious. Tirpitz, Admiral Hipper, and six destroyers...
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    yet built, a record she held until the 81,000-metric-ton (80,000-long-ton) USS Forrestal was launched in 1954. She was designed for a crew of 2,400 officers...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Albacore (SS-218)
    USS Albacore (SS-218) was a Gato-class submarine which served in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II, winning the Presidential Unit...
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  • Thumbnail for Japanese destroyer Shimakaze (1942)
    10 Nov: USS Abarenda, USS Alhena, USS Argonne, USS Aries, USS Cacapon, USS Cebu, HMS Hydra, USS Kyne, USS Lyman, USS Mindanao, USS Oberrender, USS Petrof...
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    HMS Electra. For her part of the engagement, Nachi damaged the heavy cruiser USS Houston with a pair of 8-inch (203 mm) shell hits at distances beyond 22...
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    . U.S.S. GAR (SS-206)" on Gar's first and tenth patrols. On July 6, 1944, LCDR Street reported to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard to fit out the USS Tirante (SS-420)...
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    course, Griffith was assigned as the executive officer and navigator on USS Gar (SS-206) during her seventh patrol from April to May 1943. Following this...
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  • (1892-1978), styled Viscount Garlies 1901-1920 HMS Garlies, a British frigate in commission in the Royal Navy from 1943 to 1945 USS Garlies, a United States Navy...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Growler (SS-215)
    USS Growler (SS-215), a Gato-class submarine, was the third ship of the United States Navy named for the growler. Growler′s keel was laid down by the...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Mount Hood (AE-11)
    USS Mount Hood (AE-11) was the lead ship of her class of ammunition ships for the United States Navy in World War II. She was the first ship named after...
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  • Thumbnail for Japanese battleship Kongō
    American vessels in the latter. Kongō was torpedoed and sunk by the submarine USS Sealion while transiting the Formosa Strait on 21 November 1944. She was...
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  • 6,968-ton Japanese Type 2A Wartime Standard cargo ship that was sunk by USS Sunfish on 18 November 1944 with 2,114 lives lost. Edogawa Maru sailed as...
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  • Thumbnail for French destroyer Mogador
    10 Nov: USS Abarenda, USS Alhena, USS Argonne, USS Aries, USS Cacapon, USS Cebu, HMS Hydra, USS Kyne, USS Lyman, USS Mindanao, USS Oberrender, USS Petrof...
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  • frigate HMS Garlies (K475) from 1943 to 1945 and in the U.S. Navy as the destroyer escort USS Garlies (DE-271) from August to October 1945 USS Fleming (DE-32)...
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  • Thumbnail for Grand Army of the Republic
    The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was a fraternal organization composed of veterans of the Union Army (United States Army), Union Navy (U.S. Navy)...
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  • Thumbnail for Japanese cruiser Kumano
    on 20 June 1944 she was attacked by aircraft from the aircraft carriers USS Bunker Hill, Monterey, and Cabot. During this action, the carrier Hiyō was...
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  • Thumbnail for Japanese destroyer Urakaze (1940)
    commander Lieutenant Commander Ikeda) which had been sunk by the submarine USS Harder, near Tawitawi. During the Battle of Philippine Sea, she assisted...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Mississinewa (AO-59)
    USS Mississinewa (AO-59) was the first of two United States Navy ships of the name. She was a T3-S2-A1 auxiliary oiler of the US Navy, laid down on 5...
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  • Thumbnail for Chinese cruiser Ping Hai
    Battle of Leyte Gulf and escorting troop convoys. Aircraft from the carriers USS Ticonderoga and Langley caught her escorting two merchantmen west of Luzon...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Billfish (SSN-676)
    States Navy to be named for the billfish, a name used for any fish, such as gar or spearfish, with bill-shaped jaws. The contract to build Billfish was awarded...
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  • Thumbnail for Chilean tugboat Janequeo
    Janequeo (5.), retrieved on 26 September 2013 NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive, USS Potawatomi (ATF-109), ex USS Potawatomi (AT-109) (1944)...
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  • Thumbnail for List of United States Navy ships: G–H
    USS Garfield Thomas (DE-193) USS Garfish (SS-30) USS Gargoyle (1903) USS Garland (1815, AM-238/MSF-238) USS Garlies (DE-271) USS Garlopa (SS-358) USS Garnet...
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  • Thumbnail for Japanese destroyer Akikaze
    March 1943, Akikaze and two other destroyers attacked a submarine — possibly USS Triton — near Kairiru Island 3°20′10″S 143°33′0″E / 3.33611°S 143.55000°E...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Abarenda (IX-131)
    The second USS Abarenda (IX-131) was a storage tanker, one of many miscellaneous-class Navy vessel crewed by the United States Coast Guard during World...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Abner Read (DD-526)
    USS Abner Read (DD-526) was a Fletcher-class destroyer in the service of the United States Navy, named after Lieutenant Commander Abner Read (1821 – 1863)...
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