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USS JARVIS: Too Soon To Glory
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September 1, 2008
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Copyright informationCopyright Challenge Publications Inc. Sep 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Little did the veteran destroyer crew consider the consequences of leaving behind their damaged whaleboat and life rafts
USS JARVIS (DO-393), A GRIDLEY-BAGLEY-CLASS PREWAR DESTROYER)
The Congress categorically denied the US Navy any funds for new destroyers from 1916 until the early 1930s. The reason was obvious to anyone who appreciated the value of a modern Navy that was, at a minimum, equal to other Navies. Nearly 250 Wickes-class or four-piper, flush-deck destroyers were built to fight in World War I and, at war's end, only a fraction of these ships served at sea against the enemy. Many went from the builder's yard to the reserve fleet bastions at locales such as San Diego and ...
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