USS Forrest Sherman (DD-931) was the lead ship of a class of 18 destroyers built for the US Navy in 1953. The class was initially designed as a follow-up to the Mitscher-class destroyer, featuring additional 5-inch Mark 18 cannons to fulfil the "destroyer leader" (DL) role. However, due to the advent of anti-ship and anti-air missiles rendering the DL classification obsolete, all 18 ships of the Forrest Sherman class were reclassified as destroyers instead.

As for the Forrest Sherman, she was laid down on 27 October 1953 at the Bath Iron Works shipyard in Maine, launched on 5 February 1955, and commissioned on 9 November that year. Forrest Sherman's 27-year service was relatively uneventful, with the only exception being her deployment around Taiwan during the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis in 1958. After she was decommissioned on 5 November 1982, Forrest Sherman was mothballed at the former Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. Several attempts to turn Forrest Sherman into a museum ship failed, and she was sold for scrap on 15 December 2014.

USS Forrest Sherman was introduced in Update 2.53 "Line of Contact". Compared to her real-life successor, the USS Charles F. Adams, Forrest Sherman leans more towards a conventional destroyer, featuring three 5-inch turrets with a very high rate of fire, giving her impressive suppressive fire capability, especially against lesser-armoured ships. However, much like the other early Cold War American destroyers, Forrest Sherman's hull is very large and devoid of any armour. This, combined with vulnerable auxiliary and stern ammunition racks, makes her extremely vulnerable to returning fire.