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This is a selection of some of the photographs I have of WW2 destroyers of the United States Navy. They are all Fletcher-class ships or from the Allen.M.Sumner and Gearing classes which were derived from them. These destroyers formed the backbone of the American WW2 destroyer fleet throughout the war and also served in the Navies of many countries post-war - a handful surviving into the 21st century.
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Half a dozen more American Destroyers including USS Decatur [DD5] - a Bainbridge class ship which spent the greater part of its life [1902-1919] in the Philippines.
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The Spanish 'Jorge Jaun' formerly the Fletcher Class USS McGowan DD678. Transferred to Spain on 31st November 1960. John
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Since it has not covered as of this posting. Maybe it's time is due. WW1 and WW2 through the 60's. [ATTACH]37181[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37182[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37183[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37184[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37185[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37186[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37187[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37188[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]37189[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37190[/ATTACH] Photo 2.USS Henley 3. USS Dorsey 7. USS Kidd 9. USS Robert C. Owens Regards Charles
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More, [ATTACH]37191[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37192[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37193[/ATTACH] 1. USS Charles F. Adams 3. USS Preble Regards Charles
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hi thanks for the photos you have photos of destroyers at Malta as i am making a dvd about old times of navy at Malta Thanks Patrick

some nice pics thanks for posting, i've always liked the charles f adams ships and the arleigh burkes

Davep, Thanks very much! Regards Charles

Good pix, well done Charles Mik

Mik, Thank You! Regards Charles

More Destroyers, [ATTACH]37284[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37285[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37286[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37287[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37288[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]37289[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37290[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37291[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37292[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37293[/ATTACH] Last Photo is the USS Dectaur. Regards Charles
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More, [ATTACH]37295[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37296[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37297[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37298[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37299[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]37300[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37301[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37302[/ATTACH] 2&3 Taylor 4. Roxborough ex-USS Foote DD169 5. David Ray 6. Ingersol 7. Macomb Late in service 8. Nickelson Regards Charles
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Some More, [ATTACH]37337[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37338[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37339[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37340[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37341[/ATTACH] #3. USS Mugford
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More, [ATTACH]37547[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37548[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37549[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37550[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37551[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]37552[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37553[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37554[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37555[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37556[/ATTACH] Note: The first couple of photo's are of Torpedo Boats the forerunner of the Destroyer. Regards Chares
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[ATTACH]37563[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37564[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]37557[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37558[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37559[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37560[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37561[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]37562[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37565[/ATTACH][ATTACH]37566[/ATTACH] Regards Charles
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Charles, just so you don't feel alone in posting photo's here on this thread. Here's some from my collection that I don't think I've posted before. Keep posting the ships...great to look at. Regards Alan
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Here's some photos of some of the DDs of the Asiatic Fleet. Also a good one of USS Zeilin in big sea and a color photo of USS Hamman off Oahu 1940. 1. USS Hamman 2. USS Zeilin DD313 Asiatic Fleet 3. USS Whipple 4. USS Pillsbury 5. USS Pope and Peary 6. USS Stewart Cheers Bruce
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Alan, Bruce, Thanks ever so much. I was begining to wonder that very thing! Regards Charles

Charles, hopefully more will follow. My collection is mainly RN with a few from other countries. I'm always on the lookout to increase the collection but only if they are large, good quality photo's. Sadly, there are only a handful of us that post such photo's. Most although nice to look at and informative, don't tick the boxes to go into my collection. So if you have any large photo's.....get them on here. Here's another one.... Regards Alan
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Good pictures Charles and Alan. When I get time I will add some from my postcards.

It is obviously too late now but I feel that it is a pity that there was not a gallery kept just for the older American destroyers. In one sense it is almost pointless to post pictures of the modern USN destroyers as so many are available on the main USN sites. To post pictures of the Arleigh Burke class wedged next to WW1 destroyers to me just comes across like a big jumble. Still only my view.

Another installment, [ATTACH]38017[/ATTACH][ATTACH]38018[/ATTACH][ATTACH]38019[/ATTACH][ATTACH]38020[/ATTACH][ATTACH]38021[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]38022[/ATTACH][ATTACH]38023[/ATTACH][ATTACH]38024[/ATTACH][ATTACH]38025[/ATTACH][ATTACH]38026[/ATTACH] Regards Charles
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More, [ATTACH]38027[/ATTACH][ATTACH]38028[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]38029[/ATTACH][ATTACH]38030[/ATTACH] Regards Charles
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More of... [ATTACH]38588[/ATTACH][ATTACH]38589[/ATTACH][ATTACH]38590[/ATTACH][ATTACH]38591[/ATTACH][ATTACH]38592[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]38593[/ATTACH][ATTACH]38594[/ATTACH][ATTACH]38595[/ATTACH][ATTACH]38596[/ATTACH] Photo 6. USS Abbot 7. D179 ex USS Dyson 9. USS Remey trying to UNREP Regards Charles
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[ATTACH]38936[/ATTACH][ATTACH]38937[/ATTACH][ATTACH]38938[/ATTACH][ATTACH]38939[/ATTACH][ATTACH]38940[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]38941[/ATTACH][ATTACH]38942[/ATTACH][ATTACH]38943[/ATTACH][ATTACH]38944[/ATTACH][ATTACH]38945[/ATTACH] Photo's 5 to 9 are close up's of the Bridge area and forward gun turrets Of the Benham Class Destroyer Regards Charles
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[ATTACH]38965[/ATTACH][ATTACH]38966[/ATTACH][ATTACH]38967[/ATTACH][ATTACH]38968[/ATTACH][ATTACH]38969[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]38970[/ATTACH][ATTACH]38971[/ATTACH] 5.)USS J.P.Kennedy 6) USS Parsons-Before refit 7.) USS Parsons-After refit Regards Charles
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Excellent work Charles, well done shipmate. I DO like pic 9 in post #21!!! Mik

Mik, Yes, I to as well. Brings memories being on the ship and trying to unrep in those kinds on conditions, Very trying at best. Regards Charles

[ATTACH]39065[/ATTACH][ATTACH]39066[/ATTACH][ATTACH]39067[/ATTACH][ATTACH]39068[/ATTACH][ATTACH]39069[/ATTACH] Photo 3. USS Paulding 4. USS Shaw 5. USS Stewart Regards Charles
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[ATTACH]39070[/ATTACH][ATTACH]39071[/ATTACH] 1. USS Warrington 2. Close up of a FLetcher Class Destroyer Regards Charles
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This a photo essay of the USS Perry going through FRAM in the sixites. [ATTACH]39140[/ATTACH][ATTACH]39141[/ATTACH][ATTACH]39142[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]39143[/ATTACH][ATTACH]39144[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]39145[/ATTACH][ATTACH]39146[/ATTACH][ATTACH]39147[/ATTACH] Regards Charles
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[ATTACH]39153[/ATTACH][ATTACH]39154[/ATTACH][ATTACH]39155[/ATTACH][ATTACH]39156[/ATTACH][ATTACH]39157[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]39158[/ATTACH][ATTACH]39159[/ATTACH][ATTACH]39160[/ATTACH][ATTACH]39161[/ATTACH] Regards Charles
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[ATTACH]39162[/ATTACH][ATTACH]39163[/ATTACH][ATTACH]39164[/ATTACH][ATTACH]39165[/ATTACH][ATTACH]39166[/ATTACH][ATTACH]39167[/ATTACH][ATTACH]39168[/ATTACH][ATTACH]39169[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]39170[/ATTACH][ATTACH]39171[/ATTACH] The last series of photo's show the amount of electronic's added to these ship's during the modernization process. Regards Charles
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Very late reply, because I was late catching on to it - but I enjoyed this thread thoroughly Charles. Lot of memories of the kind of ships that used to rack up at North Wharf in the Yarra River of Melbourne when I was a kid - and we climbed all over them. :)

Kook, Thanks for your kind words. I would imagine as a kid you would be in a world of wonder climbing around these ships. Regards Charles

[QUOTE=CGRET;62489]Kook, Thanks for your kind words. I would imagine as a kid you would be in a world of wonder climbing around these ships. Regards Charles[/QUOTE] Charles, I was. And years later posted in Japan I became life-long friends with a very brilliant young Dow Jones financial services correspondent, son of a USN RADM, who had been a lieutenant on one of them. One night, talking ships around the foreign correspondents club bar, he recalled the open days docked in Melbourne with absolute awe. He said:'[I]Hundreds[/I] of kids came aboard and climbed over [I]every inch[/I] of us.':) They were such purposeful-looking ships, and seemed very heavily armed compared to our British designed destroyers then.

Kook, Those are some fine memories thanks for sharing them. I would tend to agree with the comments on the destroyers. I look at it this way, both Navies had destroyer's and rebuilt them for a purpose for each Navy. Just some thought's. Regards Charles

Hi I have downloaded 4 photos of two plastic model US Warships They are probably old Revell Models Just wondering if any of you experts out there can identify the class of the ships? Thanks in advance for your help
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Terry, It would appear the model is of the Forest Sherman CLass Destroyer.The Other is an Evarts Class Destroyer Escort. [ATTACH]53774[/ATTACH] Regards Charles
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Hi Charles Thank you Very much for your information regarding the two plastic model ships Much appreciated Terry

Terry, You are more than welcome. Always willing to help. Regards Charles

Some time over the next year or two Australians are going to be reminded of an old friend, the 2325 ton [fl]Bagley Class destroyer USS [I]Mugford[/I]. Mugford operated much in the company of RAN ships during the Pacific War, but what specifically will now bring her back to mind will be US wreck-hunter David L. Mearns's search for the Australian Hospital Ship [I]Centaur[/I], torpedoed in the early morning hours of May 14, 1943 by the Japanese submarine I-177. It was one of Australia's worst tragedies in the war at sea. Converted to a hospital ship in March and very well appointed, [I]Centaur[/I] was on only her second voyage as such when lost somewhere off Lookout Point, Queensland. Of the 332 people aboard, only 64 survived. On rafts, many horribly injured, they were rescued by USS [I]Mugford[/I] 36 hours later. Since David Mearns found HMAS [I]Sydney's[/I] wreck off the West Australian coast in March last year, the Federal Government has allocated $5 million for him to seek the wreck of the Centaur, which has been reported found a number of times before. Always mistakenly, to the great disappointment of the families of the 268 people lost in this controversial wartime tragedy. Since I think the search area will not be so extensive nor as deep and undefined as that for HMAS [I]Sydney[/I], I'm betting that he will once again succeed - with all the attention that will bring, and probably another book to be published. USS Mugford's honourable role as rescuer will be much remembered, particularly by the still-living survivors and their families. Ironically, as an auxilary supply and trooping ship, [I]Centaur[/I] had been involved in the search for the Sydney in November 1941, and picked up survivors from her adversary, the German raider [I]Kormoran[/I]. [I]Centaur's[/I] loss, as it happens, was but one incident in USS [I]Mugford's[/I] crowded war career. Three months later, on August 7, off Lunga Point, Guadcanal, she was both near-missed and hit by bombs from attacking Japanese aircraft. She had downed at least two of her attackers, but lost eight dead, 10 missing and many wounded in the attack. Retired south for repairs, nonetheless, just two nights later she sped back north to the scene of the Battle of Savo Island, and rescued 400 men from the cruisers [I]Vincennes[/I] and [I]Astoria[/I] from the water. She returned to Sydney for repairs, and was subsequently based in Brisbane, her squadron often with RAN ships patrolling the Coral Sea. She then moved to New Guinea, where, on one occasion she and four comnpanion ships escaped damage when attacked by 60 Japanese aircraft. At the landings at Arawe, New Britain, however, she was riddled with shrapnel, and had one crew killed and four wounded. She returned to Sydney, escorted ships to New Guinea again, and in March 1944 proceeded to Mare Island for overhaul. That's where the photo below finds her re-emerging, looking like a brand new ship. She had been built at Boston Navy Yard, and first comissioned in 1937. Back in the Pacific, [I]Mugford[/I] joined the vast armada headed for Leyte Gulf and the first landings back in the Philippines. On December 5, she had gone to protect amphibious craft under attack in the Surigao Strait when she was crashed by a kamikaze-style bomber, this time losing eight dead and 14 wounded. After repair again at Mare Island, she returned in March for the final landings up the Northern Pacific to Japan itself, screening carriers. She earned seven battle stars. [I]Mugford[/I] did some repatriation and occupation duties, and paid off in 1946. Her end came when she was used as one of the targets in 'Operation Crossroads' the atomic tests at Bikini Atoll. Retained at first for decontamination tests, she was finally sunk at Kwajalein Atoll on March 22, 1948. Like all those Pacific War US destroyers, it seems to me, she'd been a true fighting ship. I'd like to think she'll be remembered once again Down Under, remembered well and honourably, when we find the [I]Centaur[/I]. There were many controversial elements to that ship's loss - the question of whether the hospital ship was actually carrying troops - and her discovery will generate much discussion. [[I]Mugford's[/I] career details here are mainly from Wikipedia, although I researched her at her own website sometime previously. The photo is from the Naval Historical Center Washington, Call number 19-N-65301].
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Kook, Very well done! Regards Charles

DE-304 USS Rall DE-307 USS Finnegan DE-316 USS Harveson DE-317 USS Joyce DE-318 USS Kirkpatrick John
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Just now had a chance to catch up on this thread. Many thanks to all for the fine posts of destroyers and escorts. I've always been fond of the Fletchers, and many of them were in Pearl Harbor post war. I particularly remember the Fletcher herself, along with the Radford and Nicholas, long-time residents there.

DE-321 USS Mosley DE-330 USS O'Reilly DE-410 USS Jack Miller DE-424 USS Haas John
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[quote=Don Boyer;10079450]Just now had a chance to catch up on this thread. Many thanks to all for the fine posts of destroyers and escorts. I've always been fond of the Fletchers, and many of them were in Pearl Harbor post war. I particularly remember the Fletcher herself, along with the Radford and Nicholas, long-time residents there.[/quote] Totally agree Don - As well as being excellent destroyers I have always liked their appearance. This superb shot of DD 685 Picking is one of my favourite examples. ;)
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Another classic Fletcher picture - DD 502 Sigsbee. :)
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The [I]Fletcher[/I] class destroyers are also favourites of mine. They always remind me of the incredible fight of Lt Cdr Evans of USS [I]Johnstone[/I] (DD557). Mel

Good to see all the Fletchers here. When I was a lad in high school in Hawaii many Fletchers were still serving in the fleet in ASW, radar picket and other secondary roles. Pearl Harbor had at least two divisions of them about along with the many Gearings/Sumners still in use. The more "modern" destroyers were the fleet escorts by this time.




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