Hello... I'm new to the forum. Ran across it by accident while looking for information on DE-665, USS JENKS, which was my father-in-law's ship from Jan '44 thru the end of the war. He was sound/sonar operator... More to the point for this forum, I just completed building a Revell USS Buckley kit to give him as a gift. I'm not an advanced modeler so it was basically built as it came from the box, other than scratching together a 1.1" gun to replace the twin 40mm in the aft position (since JENKS had 1.1") and putting JENKS number and name rather than the Buckley decals, and adding crew members. If I've correctly figured out how (I'm also no great shakes at all this IT stuff), I'm posting a picture here of the JENKS underway in May 1944, as well as a picture or two of my model as completed depicting JENKS on 4 June '44 in action against the U-505.
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File comment: USS JENKS, DE-665, underway in May 1944
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File comment: Model of USS JENKS during engagement with U-505, 4 June 1944
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File comment: Aft view of model showing 1.1" mount "detail" (or lack thereof?)
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My intention now is to build a second model, depicting JENKS' later version, with her torpedo tubes removed and the 4 single 40mm mounts in their place. The conversion was done in July or Aug '44, following the capture of U-505, and JENKS then made several convoys to the Mediterranean so I want my f-in-law to have a model of both versions. What I haven't yet been able to determine, and would like help with if anyone can, is whether the 1.1" mount was converted to some 40mm variation at that same time? It seems to me it would have made sense to do convert to 40mm from a 'use the same ammo type' perspective, but perhaps a shortage of dual/quad 40mm [or just a desire to reduce shipyard time] might have meant they kept the 1.1" (unfortunately my father-in-law doesn't remember for sure)?