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