Today we finally cap off the destroyer development series with a brief run through of the built and seriously-planned destroyer classes in the major navies of WW2.
Sources:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/British-Destroyers-Frigates-Second-World/dp/1526702827
https://www.amazon.co.uk/U-S-Destroyers-Illustrated-Design-History/dp/087021733X
https://www.amazon.co.uk/French-Destroyers-John-Jordan/dp/1848321988
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Italian-Destroyers-World-War-Vanguard/dp/1472840550
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Warships-Soviet-Fleets-1939-1945-Combatants-ebook/dp/B0B197MKKH
https://www.amazon.co.uk/German-Warships-1815-1945-Erich-Groener/dp/0870217909
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Conways-Worlds-Fighting-Ships-1922-1946/dp/0851771467
https://www.amazon.co.uk/British-destroyers-development-1892-1953-permission/dp/B0000CNBGK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Destroyers-World-War-Two-Intern/dp/0870213261
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Warships-Imperial-Japanese-Jentschura-Al/dp/087021893X
https://www.amazon.co.uk/German-Destroyers-World-War-II/dp/1848321937
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mussolinis-Navy-Reference-Marina-1930-1945/dp/1848321155
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