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1369:. USS Gettysburg Public Affairs. Archived from
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1081:Desert Storm at Sea: What the Navy Really Did
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1016:. MercoPress. 23 May 2011. Archived from
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1677:List of destroyers of the Argentine Navy
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684:, sunk by German aircraft, in May 1941.
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1063:"The Atlantic Conveyor - Think Defence"
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1672:List of destroyers of the Royal Navy
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