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An overhead shot of a "factory equipped"
Buckley class DE. In this case, the USS Daniel T. Griffin (DE 54) taken
on 17 April 1944, 10 months after she was commissioned and, although she
probably didn't know it at the time, she was just four months away from
the APD conversion to APD 38. The equipment is standard with three
3"/50 calibre dual purpose guns, a hedgehog, a triple 21"
torpedo launcher, four 20mm single barrel guns aft of the stack, a
1.1" machine cannon in the X-position, eight K-guns, two 20mm
single barrel guns on the fantail, and two depth charge roller racks.
The mast contains the standard SA air search radar and the SL surface
search radar. National
Archives Photograph.
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