Photo #: NH 107405
USS Buckley (DE-51)
Following conversion for radar picket service, circa 1945.
Note her newly-fitted 5"/38 main battery guns and mainmast.
Buckley was redesignated DER-51 in April 1949.
Collection of Bruce H. Franklin, author of "The Buckley-Class Destroyer Escorts".
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
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