USS Lansdale (DD-426) (Ship of the United States Lansdale ) - American destroyer type Benson .
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Laid on the Boston Navy Yard Ferfe on December 19, 1938 . Launched on October 30, 1939 , entered service on September 17, 1940 .
On April 20, 1944, it was sunk by the German Ju 88 torpedo bombers 40 miles east of Algeria. From the US Navy excluded May 16, 1944 .
Literature
- Robert Sinclair Parkin. Blood on the Sea: American Destroyers Lost in World War II . - Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press,2001 . - 408 p. - ISBN 0-306-81069-7 .
- United States Destroyer Operations in World War II . - Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1986 - P. 369. - ISBN 0-870-21726-7 .