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The Wickes class destroyer USS McKee (DD-87) is launched at the Union Iron Works of San Francisco. She carried out one mission to the Azores during the First World War and was decommissioned in 1922
The Wickes class destroyer USS Dent (DD-116) is launched at William Cramp and Sons of Philadelphia. She escorted one convoy across the Atlantic during the First World War, then served as a fast transport in the Pacific during the Second World War.
The Wickes class destroyer USS Montgomery (DD-121) is launched at Newport News Shipbuilding. She saw service in the last few months of the First World War and as a fast mine layer during 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.
