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April 1918
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End of the Second Battle of the Somme. The Germans have created a massive bulge in the Allied lines, but they have lost between 200,000 and 300,000 men and haven't achieved their aim of splitting the Allied lines.
The last German attack on Villers-Bretonneux never really gains any momentum. The failure of this attack forces Ludendorff to cancel the entire Somme offensive.
The Wickes class destroyer USS Radford (DD-120) is launched at Newport News. She saw service in the last month of the First World War and that was briefly selected for use as a mobile target vessel before being scrapped under the terms of the London Naval Treaty
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.
