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Start of a German attack towards Amiens. Villers-Bretonneux is the first target but the village holds out on 30 March.
Wickes class destroyer USS Stringham (DD-83) is launched at the Fore River Shipbuilding Company of Quincy, Massachussets. She saw limited service towards the end of the First World War, before serving throughout most of the Pacific Campaign of the Second World War as a fast transport.
Wickes class destroyer USS Lamberton (DD-119) is launched at Newport News Shipbuilding. She saw brief service in the last weeks of the First World War, was used as an auxiliary in the interwar period, and then as a fast minesweeper for most of the Second World War
U.S. Destroyers: An Illustrated Design History, Norman Friedmann .
The standard history of the development of American destroyers, from the earliest torpedo boat destroyers to the post-war fleet, and covering the massive classes of destroyers built for both World Wars. Gives the reader a good understanding of the debates that surrounded each class of destroyer and led to their individual features.
