USS Missouri BB-63

Plastic kit for the USS Missouri BB-63

• Scale 1:350
• Dimensions LxW (built): 773 x 100 mm
• 1590+ pieces
• hull manufactured using the Slide Mold process
• incl. PE parts, metal barrels and anchor chain
• with display stand and engraved name plate
• contains 2 SC-1 aircraft
• not built, not painted
• Paint and glue not included

USS Missouri is the third ship, the United States Navy Iowa class battleship, was built in 1944, the same year in service. January 1945 the USS Missouri as flagship of the 3rd Fleet, formally joined the U.S. Pacific Fleet, took part in a few battles, including Iwo Jima, Battle of Okinawa and Japan native attack operations in February to July 1945. Missouri has witnessed the historic moment of the end of the Second World War - at 9:02 on September 2, 1945, the representative of Japan signed the unconditional surrender on the USS Missouri deck was parked at the Tokyo Bay, World War II a stop. Reserve sequestration of the battleship was commissioned in 1955, a number of occasions back and fully retired until 1992.