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Increased awareness of the need for anti-aircraft protection encouraged mounting of dual-purpose 5"/38 caliber guns in later battleships and most of the World-War 1 era battleships were rearmed. Surplus guns from scrapped or re-armed battleships were mounted in United States Coast Guard cutters, auxiliaries, small aircraft carriers, coast defense batteries, fleet submarines, and Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships. 5"/51 shore batteries were used with great effectiveness by the Marines during the Battle of Wake Island in December 1941.
The 5"/51 caliber gun was mounted on:
- USS Olympia (C-6) - replacing the original 10 5"/40 and 4 8"/35 guns
- USS Chester (CL-1)
- USS Birmingham (CL-2)
- USS Salem (CL-3)
- USS Florida (BB-30)
- USS Utah (BB-31)
- USS Wyoming (BB-32)
- USS Arkansas (BB-33)
- USS New York (BB-34)
- USS Texas (BB-35)
- USS Nevada (BB-36)
- USS Oklahoma (BB-37)
- USS Pennsylvania (BB-38)
- USS Arizona (BB-39)
- USS New Mexico (BB-40)
- USS Mississippi (BB-41)
- USS Idaho (BB-42)
- USS Tennessee (BB-43)
- USS California (BB-44)
- USS Colorado (BB-45)
- USS Maryland (BB-46)
- USS West Virginia (BB-48)
- USS Barracuda (SS-163)
- USS Bass (SS-164)
- USS Bonita (SS-165)
- USS Langley (CV-1)
- USS Long Island (CVE-1)
- USS Sangamon (CVE-26)
- USS Suwannee (CVE-27)
- USS Chenango (CVE-28)
- USS Santee (CVE-29)
- USS Charger (CVE-30)
- Bogue class escort carriers
- Tambor class submarines
- USCG Tampa Class Cutters
- USCG Lake Class Cutters
- USCG Treasury Class Cutters
- Banff class sloops
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