Trumpeter 1/700 USS California BB44 Battleship 1941 5783

Features: Lower hull & upper hull made from multi-directional slide moulds. Either full hull version or waterline version can be selected. At the time, CALIFORNIA was the largest warship built at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in California. In the raid on Pearl Harbor on December 7th 1941 CALIFORNIA was sunk by Japanese torpedo action. With sister Tennessee, CALIFORNIA participated in the invasions of Saipan, Guam and Tinian in June and July 1944, and in the Mariana and Palau islands invasions from June to November 1944. On January 6th 1945 CALIFORNIA was struck by 'Kamikaze' plane during the Lingayen Gulf campaign and returned to Puget Sound for repairs. CALIFORNIA was back in action in the western Pacific at Okinawa in June 1945, remaining in the East China Sea on minesweeping duty. CALIFORNIA supported the Allied occupation forces in Japan until October 1945 before returning home to Philadelphia PA. CALIFORNIA was decommissioned in February 1947 and sold for scrap in July 1959. « less