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April 1918
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Start of a two-day long artillery bombardment that comes before the German attack on 9 April.
Wickes class destroyer USS Champlin (DD-104) is launched at the Union Iron Works, San Francisco. She spent almost all of her short career operating as a training ship in the reserve, before being sunk during experiments in 1936
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.
