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Ludendorff calls off the Noyon-Montdidier Offensive, an failed attempt to link the salients created on the Somme and the Marne.
Wickes class destroyer USS Colhoun (DD-85) is commissioned. She saw limited service towards the end of the First World War, and was later converted into a fast transport and sunk in a Japanese air attack off Guadalcanal.
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.
