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The Wickes class destroyer USS Greer (DD-145) is commissioned. She became famous as the first US warship to attack an Axis warship, several months before the official American entry into 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.
