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Aboard the Farragut

Class Destroyers in

World War II

Aboard the Farragut

Class Destroyers

in World War II

A History with First-Person

Accounts of Enlisted Men

L EO B LOCK

McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers

Jefferson, North Carolina, and London

F RONTISPIECE : The USS Farragut (DD 348) leading a column

of Farragut class destroyers.

L IBRARY OF C ONGRESS C ATALOGUING - IN -P UBLICATION D ATA

Block, Leo, 1920–

Aboard the Farragut Class destroyers in World War II : a

history with first-person accounts of enlisted men / Leo Block.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-7864-4222-5

softcover : 50# alkaline paper

1. Destroyers (Warships)— United States— History — 20th century.

2. World War, 1939–1945 — Naval operations, American. 3. United

States. Navy — Sea life. I. Title.

V825.3.B55 2009

940.54' 590922 — dc22

2009009451

British Library cataloguing data are available

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without permission in writing from the publisher.

On the cover: Destroyer Squadron Twenty (DesRon 20). Five of the

squadron's ships moored together, circa 1936. The destroyers are (from

left to right): USS Dewey (DD-349), USS Farragut (DD-348), USS

Worden (DD-352), USS Hull (DD-350) and USS Aylwin (DD-355)— U.S.

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