Incredible!
Seventy-one American destroyers were lost during WWII, 60 of them in confrontations with enemy ships, planes, shore batteries and mines, the other 11 to accidental groundings, friendly mines or severe storms.
Some were battle scared veterans that went down in a blaze of glory, some recently commissioned and on the way to the war when they hit a friendly mine.
Great book with the details of each ship lost: “Blood On The Sea: American Destroyers Lost In World War II”
http://www.amazon.com/Blood-On-The-Sea-Destroyers/dp/0306810697