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...th fast-firing medium and light guns. Eventually, the name simplified to [[destroyer]], which became the all-purpose vessel of navies.

...urrender ship from nearby [[Ominato]] Naval Base. On schedule a Japanese [[destroyer escort]] bore down the [[Tsugaru Strait]] carrying emissaries to hand over

As the convoy approached, Marine shore batteries responded, sinking the destroyer ''IJN Hayate'' and damaging others. Light bombs dropped by a Marine [[F4F W

...cked up; and observers on the cargo ship witnessed the air attack in which destroyer minelayers [[USS Harry F. Bauer (DM-26)]] and [[USS J. William Ditter (DM-3

...king water badly and soon began to sink. The convoy steamed on while two [[destroyer]]s stood by to evacuate her crew if necessary. ''Shadwell''’s crew worked

Off Oahu on the 19th, she transferred the destroyer to a tug and entered Pearl Harbor to discharge equipment, cargo, and troops ...seven Japanese [[dive bomber]]s attacked. One plane dropped a bomb near a destroyer some 3,000 yards off ''Thuban's'' starboard bow, but an eruption of an

On August 24, 1944 ''The New York Times'' reported that the [[Destroyer Escort]] on which Jester's son Maurice, a lieutenant, was serving, had also

...ro was a tyrant. For instance [[Pliny the Elder]] wrote that Nero was "the destroyer of the human race". For later historians, Italian in particular, he was con

...iot'' (which eventually sank two days later) and heavily damaging the U.S. destroyer [[USS Jarvis (DD-393)|''Jarvis'']].<ref>Loxton, ''Shame of Savo'', pp. 90� ...urprised and defeated by a single Japanese force of seven cruisers and one destroyer, commanded by Japanese Vice Admiral [[Gunichi Mikawa]]. Three U.S. and one

...etonated a skiff packed with explosives alongside the American Burke-class destroyer, the USS Cole, which was docked in Aden Harbor, Yemen. The blast blew a hol

''Spruance''-class [[destroyer]]s sailed on collection missions in the Black Sea, Baltic Sea, and off the

!Destroyer ...ongo'' and ''IJN Haruna''. Both sections had substantial [[cruiser]] and [[destroyer]] screens.

...lhena'' in tow. [[USS Navajo (AT-64)|USS ''Navajo'' (AT-64)]] relieved the destroyer the next day, and the tug continued on toward the New Hebrides with the car

...-4)|USS ''Ancon'' (AGC-4)]], 10 other auxiliaries, and an escort of nine [[destroyer]]s.

.... To counter the [[U-boat wolf pack]]s, the Royal Navy built hundreds of [[destroyer]]s, and smaller convoy escort vessels such as the [[Flower-class]] [[corvet

The suicide doctrine nearly worked. Destroyers and destroyer escorts, doing radar picket duty, were hit hard, as the inexperienced pilot

...ran with an escort of 10 [[destroyers]]. Shortly after midnight, screening destroyer [[USS Rowan (DD-405)|USS ''Rowan'' (DD-405)]] sighted a torpedo wake and pu

...], destroyers [[USS Johnston (DD-557)]] and [[USS Hoel (DD-533)]], and the destroyer escort, [[USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413)]]. They had given their lives to b

...Commander Halsey's First World War service, including command of USS Shaw (Destroyer # 68) in 1918, was sufficiently distinctive to earn a Navy Cross." ...han other officers, the significance of naval aviation. In 1932, he left [[destroyer]] duty, in which he had spent all but one year of his sea duty. He first at

...for special interests? The father of a vigorous national government or the destroyer of genuine federalism? A defender of governmental authority or a dangerous