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Gleaves Class Destroyer
Posted by Paul N. Adams on Friday, June 25, 2004 12:21 PM
My uncle served on the DD260 Glennon, which is a Gleaves class destroyer. It hit a mine off of Utah beach during D-Day which took her stern off. German shore batteries finally sank her the next day after the crew had abandoned ship. Does anyone know where I can get a model of this class of destroyer, the larger the scale the better? Or, does anyone know where I can get the information needed to scratch build one?
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    December 2002
  • From: Greenville,Michigan
Posted by millard on Friday, June 25, 2004 8:35 PM
Paul
This last winter I did a Gleaves Class for my wifes uncle. The DD625 USS Harding.It too was at Normandy.on D-Day. I used a skywaves 1/700 kit of a Livermore Class.It has a layout for a Gleaves Class in its istructions. Also there's a 1/350 resin kit available.Squadron has abook out about Destroyers and I think the Gleaves class is in there. Hope that helps.
Rod
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    January 2003
Posted by Jeff Herne on Saturday, June 26, 2004 9:53 AM
Glennon is actually a Bristol Class, so you can get a Yankee Modelworks USS Tillman in her 1944 config, from what I can gather, they're practically twins, even down to the single 20mm added to the bridge front.

The differences between the Benson/Gleaves/Bristol/Livermore class are mostly internal and machinery changes, things we don't see.

Jeff
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