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Fletcher Class
USS Black
$1799
 
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Specifications:
Scale: 1:125
Size of Model: 1120mm x 180mm x 380mm
Material: Fiberglass Hull, Wood deck, copper and brass parts
Drive System: 2 x 540 Engines, 2 x shaft & propellers
R/C system: 2 channal Radio Controller with one Servo, one Speed
controller (80A)
History of the USS Black
USS Black, a 2050-ton Fletcher class destroyer built at Kearny,
New Jersey, was commissioned in May 1943. After shakedown and training
in the western Atlantic and Caribbean areas, she passed through
the Panama Canal in mid-November 1943 to join the war against Japan.
Black's first combat operations took place during that month and
the next, as she served in the newly-captured Gilbert Islands on
patrol, escort and air-sea rescue duties. In the first seven months
of 1944 the destroyer participated in the campaigns to capture positions
in the Marshalls, Admiralties, northern New Guinea and the Marianas.
She was next in combat during the invasion of Leyte in October and
subsequently escorted reinforcement convoys to the Philippines.
In addition to performing screening missions during this time, Black
occasionally used her guns to bombard the enemy ashore.
Following overhaul in the United States, Black returned to the Western
Pacific in March 1945 and immediately took part in aircraft carrier
raids on Japan. She served as a radar picket ship and carrier escort
during much of the long and brutal Okinawa campaign in April, May
and June, surviving several air attacks with minor damage. In July
Black screened battleships and cruisers during two bombardments
of the Japanese home islands and, on 15 August 1945, the day Japan
agreed to surrender, was present during one of the Pacific War's
final Kamikaze suicide plane attacks. After supporting occupation
operations off China and Korea in September and October, Black steamed
back to the U.S. West Coast, where she was placed out of commission
in August 1946.
The Cold War brought Black back into commission in July 1951. Atlantic
Fleet service followed, broken by a Korean War deployment that took
her around the World, westbound, between January and August 1953.
At the beginning of 1955 she permanently returned to the Pacific.
Over the next decade and a half, Black regularly crossed the great
ocean to take her place as a unit of the Seventh Fleet, serving
as an aircraft carrier escort, taking part in antisubmarine warfare
exercises, patrolling in the Taiwan Strait and visiting ports throughout
the Far East. Her tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth post-World
War II Western Pacific deployments, beginning in early 1965, included
Vietnam War service. Among her duties during this time were early
participation in "Market Time" coastal patrol and interdiction
operations, providing naval gunfire support for forces ashore and
screening carriers as they took the war to the North Vietnamese
enemy. USS Black's last overseas cruise ended in July 1969. She
was decommissioned in late September of that year and sold for scrapping
in February 1971.
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