The scene shows the Neptun
Iowa
shortly before a refueling by AO-22 USS
Cimarron, also Neptun, but converted long before the new Neptun version in camouflage. You can see my older types of
radar antennas made of some plastic-gauze material.. While the Cimarron
is wearing the measure 32/13T,
Iowa
shows her unique two-tone scheme of
ocean-gray and dull-black in the Pacific at the beginning of 1944. Besides the
usual additions of radar and mast-details I added some 40 mm Bofors to
distinguish from the state of the Neptun
version, which shows her as completed. Also there is a row of windows under a
roof behind the armoured bridge on both sides.
Thomas Schröder
Kiel
,
Germany
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