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| Model Competition Display - USS Douglas A. Munro, DE 422 By Model Shipwright - Sweetwater (Gary) | ||||||||
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Year or period represented: 1958 History: Butler Class Destroyer Escort, named after the only US Coast Guardsman to win the Medal of Honor in WWII. I served aboard Munro from 1957-1960, home ported in Pearl Harbor and Guam, M.I. 3 West-Pac deployments, included escorting Chinese Nationalist LSTs into the beach at Quemoy/Matsu to evacuate refugees while under shelling from Chi/Com batteries, 8/23/58. Scale and / or dimensions: 1/96 scale 38" overall length Construction method / materials used: Base fiberglass hull, basswood framing/support structure, sheet styrene decking, superstructure, gun tubs, directors, etc. Resin and cast metal fittings and gun kits, P/E Brass K-gun and depth-charge roller racks, lifeline stanchions, etc. Polyester thread rigging for lifelines, mast stays and some antennae. Additional information: Model is constructed as the ship was in 1958, with 2 5"/38 main gun mounts, one quad 40mm AA mount aft, and 2 twin 40mm AA mounts aft of mid-ships, no torpedo tubes, and a Mk 15 Hedgehog projector in place of the forward twin 40mm AA mount. A hand-made decal of Escort Squadron 11 is on both sides of the stack. Research: Used old personal photos, photos of sister-ships from the Internet and drawings from Scale Shipyard of USS McGinty DE 365 circa 1963, USS Samuel B. Roberts circa 1943.
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