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Gun crew practicing on a four-inch gun of the destroyer USS Little (DD-79).
Gun crew practicing on a 4-inch gun of the destroyer USS Little (DD-79). She served in Atlantic convoy operations from May 1917 to after the armistice. Image courtesy of the National Archives.