The Destroyer Escort was the smallest ocean-­going escort built for the United States Navy – a downsized destroyer with less speed, fewer guns, and fewer tor

The text describes the development of the class, armament, major conversion programs, differences between the American and British ships, and the operational hi

Winston Churchill famously claimed that the submarine war in the Atlantic was the only campaign of the Second World War that really frightened him. If the lifel

For men on destroyer-class warships during World War I and World War II, battles were waged “against overwhelming odds from which survival could not be expect

Includes numerous maps and illustrations. This monograph provides first-hand accounts of Destroyer Squadron 18 during this critical battle upon which so much of