US Flush-Deck Destroyers 1916-45

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"With four pipes and flush decks, these ships were a distinctively American destroyer design and were the best in the world when designed in 1916. Devised immediately prior to and during the United States' involvement in World War I they dominated the US Navy's destroyer forces all the way through to World War II. They were depolyed on North Atlantic and Norwegian Sea convoys, and virtually everywhere in the Pacific, from Alaska to Australia. Fifty were traded to Great Britain in its hour of need in 1940, and many would swerve in other navies, fighting under the Soviet, Canadian, Norwegian, and even the Imperial Japanese flags. They also served in a variety of roles becoming seaplane tenders, high-speed transports, minesweepers and minelayers. One was even used as a self-propelled mine during Operation Chariot, destroying the dry dock at St. Nazaire."--Back cover