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This will serve as a superthread for destroyer escorts of the US Navy (and their foreign operators), mainly from WWII,
but also post-war ones (see also WhyMe's much older DE thread, and my Cannon thread). And oh, it's open for everyone.

I'd like to thank WhyMe for his USS Rudderow drawing that served as a base for my works on the matter.


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Finally churned out the first of my Buckley DEs after days of fiddling around and hair-pulling moments, so here it is, the USS Donnell (DE-56), as of April '44. She was torpedoed by a U-boat in the Atlantic, and was subsequently turned into a barracks ship as IX-182, and was later towed to Cherbourg, France to serve as a floating power plant. Donnell retired in 1945 a few months after she was brought back to the US that year.

(updated 31/01/15)


Made some tweaks in the hull in which I will apply in my other DEs (bilge keels in the Buckleys are shorter than the later 306' DEs) and made a new rangefinder...hull shading, tried it, but had to forgo it anyway...

A couple of modification variations, a 5"/38 conversion, and some RN and postwar versions should hopefully follow.

cheers ~ wb21

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Excellent work!
Looking forward to the other versions.

Great work. Keep it up!

Very nice work.

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Well done , Looking forward to this thread.

Very nice work!

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Thanks everyone.


And as a preview for hopefully more things to come, here are some wartime Edsalls...these differed from the Cannon class by their propulsion type (Fairbanks-Morse diesels compared to the diesel-electric tandem drives of the Cannons), so it's a relatively piece of cake, but still tedious to do (may have missed something here):

(all updated 31/01/15)
The USS Hammann (DE-131) as of April 1944, which will serve a "baseline" configuration (save for the added aft 20mm's) of the type represented here:


The USS Rhodes (DE-384) as of May 1945, with a quad 40mm replacing the earlier twin 40mm mounting, plus 2 twin 40mm's and additional Mk51 directors in the former torpedo tube station (her sound hut appears to have canvas for roofing):


The USS Lansing (DE-388) as of April 1945, with 1 quad and 4 solo 40mm's:


And the USS Stockdale (DE-399) as of April 1945, with 1 twin and 4 solo 40mm's. Most of her weapons appear to be painted in blue:


cheers ~ wb21

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>"Wow, if I wasn't a hardened killing machine, that mightta hurt..." —SSgt. John Lugo (1st SFOD-D), Spec Ops: The Line

Very nice!

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Good job!