Morning aomagrat.
This is the first time I can remember seeing a Fletcher Class DD with some of the main gun turrets removed. I didn't know that they had converted the armament on them.
I was just wondering the samething SAM, notice that the pic was taken in the 50s so it is quite possible that the Philip had undergone postwar modernazation. I did not see anything in the history of the USS Philip about that in this online history.
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/dafs/DD/dd498.html
Have taken a break fron the aeroplane for a few days but will get back to work shortly.
Regards
alfa6 ;>}