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U.S. destroyers : an illustrated design history / by Norman Friedman ; profile drawings by A.D. Baker, III and Norman Friedman.

by Friedman, Norman, 1946-

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Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, c2004.

Destroyers (Warships) -- United States -- Design and construction.

1557504423 (alk. paper)

9781557504425 (alk. paper)

viii, 552 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Prologue : Torpedo boats into destroyers, 1886-1898 -- A decade of developments, 1906-1916 -- The mass-production destroyer, 1917-1922 -- Destroyer ASW, World War I and after -- Leaders and the interwar period, 1917-1940 -- To the big destroyers, 1941-1945 -- The destroyer escorts, 1941-1945 -- Destroyer warfare, 1941-1945 -- Destroyer ASW : World War II and after -- Destroyer AAW : World War II and after -- The ultimate destroyer, 1944-1951 -- Postwar ASW escort -- The fast task force escorts -- Nuclear destroyers and frigates -- The new escorts : SCB 199, Seahawk, DX, FFG -- New technology for a new destroyer -- A post-Cold War destroyer.

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