PHOTO ALBUMS Nearly 150 photos taken in 1949 by Gibbs & Cox of its 1:24 sectional exhibition model of the Gearing-class destroyer USS Agerholm, now on display at the US Naval Academy, scanned and presented here with the kind permission of the US Navy's Curator of Ship Models. A DVD-ROM containing the original high-resolution scans of these images will soon be available via this web site's Ship's Store.

PHOTO ALBUMS
Left: Joe Lombardi supervises the replacement of USS Laffey's shell plating at Detyens Shipyard, Charleston, SC.
Right: Kurt Reese and friends dive on the remains of USS Emmons off Okinawa.

Revised orientation and area maps.

In January 2010, Osprey Publishing Ltd. released US Destroyers: 1934-45, Prewar classes by Dave McComb, which will be followed in April by US Destroyers: 1942-45, Wartime classes. Both titles may be ordered on line from booksellers in the United States and abroad. For the benefit of Osprey readers, new content will shortly be added to this web site as follows:

An index of all international place names identified in the books with maps showing their locations.

Links to information about buiders, classes and squadrons on this web site plus links to other web sites with complementary information.

Sources of the information given in the appendices: images of selected pages from the General Information Books for each listed ship that contain dimensions and other information of interest.

Errata.