While we're waiting for pics from Mike, here are a few references I pulled down from NavSource.org:


This one, dating from sometime between the wars. depicts Barney's fit long before, I'm sure, the period of interest to Mike, however I saved it because it can clarify the question of what guns she carried, and where. NavSource reports the (as-built) guns mounted by the (Wickes) class as: "4 x 4"/50, 2 x 1pdr AA (1 x 3"/23AA In Some Ships)...". Here the 4-inch/50s are clearly silhouetted - with little to no shielding on each - so you can clearly identify, besides each one fore- and aft, respectively, that the one (on each outboard wing of) a midships platform - later plated-in to form a midships "deckhouse" Mike referred to (see below) - is clearly also a 4"/50. Thus, the two additional 4" guns were on this platform - and there was no 3"/23.

Meanwhile, the 1-pounders would have been very small weapons - about the size of a 20mm, or large machine gun - and I believe one of them is silhouetted just behind the forward 4"/50. Like the midships 4"/50s, both 2pdrs could be here - one located outboard on each side, respectively - or, if not then I would look for the second one to be aft, symmetrical with the aft 4" gun. In any case, these are not the light AA weapons later occupying the "deckhouse" gun "tubs" (see below).

These later features appear by the time of the following pic, dated August 20, 1942:


Click on Image to Enlarge This pic shows many early-WWII-period features - not to mention vivid, (MS-12?) camo pattern - including the midships "deckhouse" now in place, actually a continuation of the hull-side plating, topped with gun "tubs", revealed to be circular railings, with canvass backing. The midships 4"/50s, though not discernable (for the clutter), do reappear clearly in later pics (see below), so they were undoubtedly still present. Only the (many) latest additions - including the above "tubs" - are circled, per the BuShips convention for pics immediately post-refit(s). Especially regarding these gun "tub" contents, I analyzed them in greater detail, elsewhere.

By (at least) March of 1945, these positions may well have been plated in with splinter-shielding, to form true gun tubs:


Click on Image to Enlarge These pics, both dated March, 1945 and undoubtedly shot the same day - probably within moments of each other - reveal a common later-war (MS33-D?) disruptive camo pattern and flush-faced bridge, among (probably many) other changes, since 1942. Note both show clearly the midships 4"50s - one on each side, as concluded earlier - still in place. The digital enhancements to each (bottom, left and right) targeted the best visibility of (and into) the above gun tubs - however other contrast stretches would highlight details of, for example, the fantail area.

Without knowing exactly what fit/time Mikey wants to show, I won't go into any further detail. (But if I had my "vote", I'd push for this one! )

Cheers,

-Matty