USS Kidd (DD-661) : From WWII and Korea to Museum Ship Hardback
by DAVID DOYLE
Part of the Legends of Warfare: Naval series
Hardback
Description
USS Kidd (DD-661) is the only Fletcher-class destroyer preserved in WWII configuration.
With 175 total ships launched, the Fletchers were the most numerous and most impactful class of destroyers in the US Navy during the Second World War.
DD-661 was named for RAdm. Isaac C. Kidd, who was killed onboard the Battleship Arizona at Pearl Harbor.
USS Kidd saw action in both the Atlantic and in the Pacific.
In April 1945, the ship was seriously damaged by a Kamikaze strike.
Kidd was recommissioned during the Korean War, and finally decommissioned for the final time in 1964.
The interior and exterior of the ship have been painstakingly restored and preserved in Baton Rouge by the Louisiana Naval War Memorial Commission.
This work uses color photography to provide readers an illustrated tour of the ship, above and below deck.
Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:112 pages, 283 color and b/w photos
- Publisher:Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Publication Date:06/12/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9780764364655
£18.99
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Information
-
Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:112 pages, 283 color and b/w photos
- Publisher:Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Publication Date:06/12/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9780764364655
