A signalman atop the Wickes-class destroyer USS Bernadou (DD-153) sends a semaphore message while at sea during the Invasion of North Africa, November 1942. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
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Destroyer USS Kearny (DD-432) alongside the USS Monssen (DD-436) in port at Reykjavik, Iceland after the USS Kearny had been torpedoed by the German submarine U-568. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
USS Harrison (DD-573) transfers mail to USS McKee (DD-575) while at sea near Ulithi, Caroline Islands in March 1945. Both USS Harrison (DD-573) and USS McKee (DD-575) are Fletcher-class destroyers of the United States Navy...
A Curtiss SBC-3 (Curtiss Model 77A) biplane from VS-6 of the USS Enterprise flies past USS Mustin (DD-413), a Sims-class destroyer of the United States Navy, during naval maneuvers in the Pacific in May 1940. (U.S. Navy...
One of two prototype Douglas XSB2D-1 Destroyer torpedo/dive bombers prepares to land during flight tests in 1943. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
U.S. Navy Destroyer Squadron 12 (DesRon 12) salutes the dead with S-turns in Ironbottom Sound in March 1944. The destroyers are USS Farenholt (DD-491), USS Buchanan (DD-484), USS Woodworth (DD-460), USS Lardner (DD-487) and USS...
USS Mustin (DD-413), a U.S. Navy Sims-class destroyer, pictured at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in June 1942. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A Douglas BTD-1 Destroyer torpedo bomber photographed at the Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland circa 1945. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
“Farm Scrap Builds Destroyers: 900 tons of Scrap Metal goes into a Destroyer,” WWII Poster. (Office for Emergency Management, Office of War Information.)