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The Battle of the Lys ends. The Germans capture the Scherpenberg on the last day of the battle but make little progress elsewhere.
Once again the Germans have created a large salient in the Allied lines, but have failed to achieve a breakthrough and have lost another 120,000 men.
Wickes class destroyer USS Lea (DD-118) is launched at William Cramp & Sons of Philadelphia . She saw service very late in the First World War, before operating on convoy escort duty in the Atlantic 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.
