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The Wickes class destroyer USS Lansdale (DD-101) is launched at Quincy, Mass. She enters service in the last days of the First World War, serving in the Mediterranean in 1919, then as a minelayer in the 1920s
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.
