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The battle of Bapaume was the second phase of the battle of Amiens, one of the key British offensives of the First World War. The first phase of the battle had seen the Germans forced back to line they held before the first battle of the Somme of 1916. Haig decided that his armies needed a brief pause to bring up their artillery and prepare for an assault on the new line. He also decided to move the main focus of the attack north and use General Byng's Third Army to attack the German Seventeenth Army (Marwitz).
The new attack began on this day with an assault on a narrow front.
The Wickes class destroyer USS Murray (DD-97) is commissioned. She operates in European waters late in the First World War and then serves as a minelayer in the immediate post-war period.
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.
