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Second day of the second battle of Bapaume. On the previous day General Byng's Third Army attacked on a narrow front. On 22 August General Marwitz responded with an counterattack, but this was quickly beaten off.
The Wickes class destroyer USS Lamberton (DD-119) is commissioned. She sees brief service in the last weeks of the First World War, is used as an auxiliary in the interwar period, and then as a fast minesweeper 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.
