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The Wickes class destroyer USS Ludlow (DD-112) is commissioned. She served with the Atlantic Fleet in 1919-20 and the Pacific Fleet in 1921-29, after being converted into a light mine layer in 1920.
The Wickes class destroyer USS Upshur (DD-114) is commissioned. She served as a convoy escort ship in the Atlantic for most of the Second World War, and then as a plane guard and target ship in 1944-45
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.
