Charybdis wrote:
I've just bought a Hasegawa Yorktown II 1/700. I would like to paint her in the end of war MS 21. I'd like to know if there were any more alterations to her radar set after the Sept '44 refit. I have a stack of photos of Yorktown in '43 and '44 but only one from '45 in MS 21. Thanks and merry Christmas to all. Ps. If anyone has a photo of her late war set up, I'd be much obliged if you could share.
Here are three photos showing "before" and "after" views of
Yorktown. The first two photos are "before" views from September 1944. The last view is dated April, 1945.
The photo dated April 1945, published in "Warship's Data 5: USS
Yorktown CV-10" by Robert F. Sumrall, page 35, shows that the SM fighter control set she received during the 1944 refit had been replaced with the lighter weight SP. The large SK "bed-spring" air-search antenna on the port side of the funnel cap was raised (pole made taller), perhaps to reduce interference with the SC-2 air-search antenna on the starboard side of the cap. Sumrall states that the SC-2 was used as a backup to the SK radar and was electronically similar. Although difficult to see in the photos below, the SC-2's lattice mast height may be slightly shorter in the the April, 1945 photo.
There may have been other changes after April, 1945 but not the addition of an SK-2 dish-shaped antenna before wars-end. Sumrall states that the square-shaped SK was not replaced with the dish-shaped SK-2 on
Yorktown until after the ship went into reserve.
Hope this helps!
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