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...pleted the unloading procedure on [[2 March]] and, screened by a pair of [[destroyer]]s, got underway for Saipan in company with three other transports.

...can destroyer "Greer" on 4 September 1941 and the U-boat torpedoing of the destroyer "Kearny" on 16-17 October 1941 as pretexts to extend naval warfare in the A

...was an 1920-vintage [[Clemson-class]] destroyer, which was the first U.S. destroyer sunk as a result of German action. She was on a "[[neutrality patrol]]", es

...fighter); Stukage schwader (StG) (dive-bomber); Zerstoerergeschwader (ZG) (destroyer); and Lehrgeschwader (LG) (training). The Geschwader in turn controlled se

...and]]. Screened by a [[battleship]], three [[heavy cruiser]]s, and seven [[destroyer]]s, the convoy included ''Almaack'', a transport, a storeship and an oiler,

...s been a high priority for bin Laden personally. In 1999, an attack on the destroyer ''USS Sullivans (DDG-68)'' failed when the suicide boat sank just after lau

...ip and sink it with a torpedo, but the torpedo would probably miss a small destroyer. They could circle and sink subs with a new defensive weapon, the depth cha

...he British lost three battle cruisers, three armored cruisers, and eight [[destroyer]]s, while the Germans lost one battleship, one battle cruiser, four light c

}}</ref> Still, the U.S. continued to harass Rabaul by air, and with a destroyer raid, into 1944.

...February 1940, Churchill personally ordered Captain [[Philip Vian]] of the destroyer HMS <i>Cossack</i> to board the German supply ship <i>Altmark</i> in Norweg ...oncluded the [[Destroyers for Bases Agreement]], by which fifty American [[destroyer]]s were transferred to the Royal Navy in exchange for free US base rights i

The [[Gulf of Tonkin incident]], in August 1964, involved two-destroyer DESOTO patrols equipped with intercept vans, backed up with carrier air pat

...a British admiral, where his American counterparts might be more blunt. A destroyer captain, knowing the admiral's eyes were upon him, decided to dock at high