| This class was intended to be an improved version of the Sims class with two stacks, and a alternating machinery space layout. The Benson class destroyer was the backbone of the pre-war Neutrality Patrols and brought the action to the enemy by participating in every major campaign of the war. It is well known that the USS Niblack is credited with the first action taken by American forces against axis hostility. Together with their later sisters, the Bristol class, they became known as the Benson-Livermore class Destroyers. |
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handling the E-mail for the Benson and Bristol class DD's.
