#wickes class

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USS TEXAS (BB-35), USS DECATUR (DD-341), USS JACOB JONES (DD-130), USS YORKTOWN (CV-5) and USS KEWAYDIN (AT-24) docked at Pier 7 in Naval Operating Base, Norfolk, Virginia.

Date: October 19, 1937

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: 80-CF-2115-11

Shared by Ed Mignose on the Battleship Texas Foundation Group Facebook page: link

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USS YORKTOWN (CV-5) with commissioning ceremonies underway on her flight deck while docked at Pier 7, Naval Operating Base Norfolk, Virginia.

Note: USS JACOB JONES (DD-130) is on the opposite side of the pier.

Date: September 30, 1937

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: 80-G-463767, NH 50336, NH 50335

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USS NEVADA (BB-36), USS WEST VIRGINIA (BB-48), USS COLORADO (BB-45), USS a (BB-35), USS ARKANSAS (BB-33), and USS DORSEY (DMS-1) sailing from Okinawa to Kerama Retto.

Date: April 6, 1945

NARA: 2485234

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USS DENT (DD-116/APD-9) probably in New York Harbor December 27 1918.

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Profile of the semi-fictional USS Walker (Wickes class), from Taylor Anderson's Destroyermen series.

There actually was a real four piper USS Walker, but she saw no service in the second world war, for various reasons.

In Anderson's book she is in service, but goes through a rift in space to an alternate universe to fight in a very different war...