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April 9th 1942 Japanese troops captured the Philippine peninsula of Bataan more than 70,000 Filipino and American troops are taken captive it is the largest US Army in history to surrender and one of the blackest days of the war general McArthur vowed that one day he would return and retake the islands but that day seemed a long way away Japan appeared invincible poised to sweep across the entire Pacific a shudder of fear reverberated throughout the free world but on that same dark day a ship with a radical new design was undergoing trials for the US Navy it would be the first of the most successful fighting ships of World War two new fletcher-class destroyers the Genesis for the destroyer was in the 1870s when motor torpedo boats were used to attack battleships relatively small but extremely fast they were usually armed with a single torpedo tube and some form of rapid-fire machine gun by the outbreak of World War one the torpedo boat had evolved into the destroyer it had become the backbone of navies throughout the world but in the 1920s Japan launched a new class of destroyers the West took notice these fast heavily armed ships with 5-inch guns were stronger than any ship in a Western fleet as Japan's expansionist policies grew so did her fleet soon powerful battleships carriers and cruisers were churning out of dock yards Germany and Italy were also determined to build up their fleets ship after ship took to the Seas but in America little was done to counter these threats the design of the American destroyer really was static into the 20s and early 30s no moon no ships were built many were decommissioned so basically the type of destroyer that the Navy US Navy had into the 20s and 30s was the World War 1 emergency program fleshed Decker's as the world entered a frenzied arms race American naval designers finally looked closely at these new fleets what they saw was alarming America had to come up with a fast and heavily armed destroyer of her own the designers also faced an additional problem enemy aircraft please were becoming faster and more powerful new destroys would need enough firepower to not only protect themselves but also destroy the aircraft in 1939 plans were laid down to build a new class of American destroyer the flutter class these would be the largest destroyers ever built by any nation the design was an engineering achievement a balance of ruggedness and seaworthiness armament and speed on a classically proportioned steel haul 376 feet long and nearly twenty-nine hundred tons when fully loaded the Fletcher's were significantly larger than any previous American destroyer they had five 5-inch guns 10 21 inch torpedo tubes 740 millimeter guns and 720 millimeter guns and they were armed with 56 depth charges they were also the first destroyer fitted with surface and air warning radar with their 60,000 shaft horsepower engines delivering a speed of over 36 knots the destroyer was destined to be an awesome fighting shame world...
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