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[StartQuote] Moving on . . . (A favorite phrase of a retired Vice Admiral that I reported to for seven years.) In the first picture that Frank posted there is a light colored "box" on the starboard stern of the 361 behind the sailor in the white skivvies. There's a similar, but not identical box in the same location on the boat behind the 361. I don't recall seeing anything like that previously, but I believe they are made up of three 40 mm ammo cans standing upright inside an angle iron framework. I have a picture in Dad's album that shows sailors on the 359 doing laundry on top of ammo cans and always assumed they just put them on the stern while doing the laundry. Looking at that picture again I can see that three of the cans are in an angle iron framework while several others are standing at random. The three in the framework have a lid that covers all three and one sailor is using that as the rock to beat his laundry on. In the picture posted here the cans on the 361 have the "lid" in place, probably a work bench of sorts. Does anyone know of other pictures of these cans? The 40 mm cans on the 361 were a very light color, almost as if they were whitewashed. A spotting feature for the 361 is the unusual twin 50 mount on the starboard side of the bridge. It's a pyramid pipe framework and the ammo cans are curved. I always assumed the cans are made for a turret mount. The guns are equipped with bell mouth flash arrestors (?). In the picture the crewman is holding the flash arrestors to keep the guns clear of the Varuna. On the first picture of the Wisconsin there's a sailor on a bosun's chair on the rear funnel. Scraping the paint never stops. Randy McConnell (Randall J. McConnell III)[EndQuote]
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