{"product_id":"uss-north-carolina","title":"USS North Carolina - North Carolina-Class Battleship | 1:300 Scale","description":"\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBB-55 \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe \"Showboat\" that silenced every critic who said battleships were finished.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWhen the USS North Carolina was commissioned in April 1941, the Navy's own aviators were already arguing that the age of the battleship was over. Carriers were the future. The big-gun ship was a dinosaur. The North Carolina — the first new American battleship design in nearly two decades — was dismissed by skeptics before she ever fired a shot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThen the war started. And the \u003cstrong\u003eShowboat\u003c\/strong\u003e showed up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe North Carolina was the \u003cstrong\u003emost decorated American battleship of the entire Second World War.\u003c\/strong\u003e Fifteen battle stars. She fought in every major naval campaign in the Pacific from the Solomons to Tokyo Bay. \u003cstrong\u003eGuadalcanal, the Eastern Solomons, the Philippine Sea, Iwo Jima, Okinawa\u003c\/strong\u003e — every time the fleet moved, the North Carolina was in the screen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eHer primary job wasn't shore bombardment, though she did plenty of that. It was \u003cstrong\u003ecarrier escort\u003c\/strong\u003e — screening the fast carriers with her anti-aircraft batteries while her nine \u003cstrong\u003e16-inch\/45 caliber guns\u003c\/strong\u003e stood ready for any surface threat that tried to close. At the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, she was the only battleship protecting the Enterprise. When Japanese torpedo bombers and submarines came for the carrier, the North Carolina's anti-aircraft fire helped keep Enterprise alive — and took a torpedo hit herself in the process. She kept steaming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe North Carolina proved that the new fast battleships weren't dinosaurs. They were the shield the carriers couldn't survive without. Speed, firepower, and anti-aircraft capability — the North Carolina had all three, and she used them from 1942 to 1945 without missing a major operation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eToday, \u003cstrong\u003eBB-55 is a museum ship\u003c\/strong\u003e moored in Wilmington, North Carolina — one of the most visited warship museums in the country. If you've walked her teak decks, you've stood on fifteen battle stars' worth of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat you're building:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e2,662 pieces\u003c\/strong\u003e in 1:300 scale\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e30 inches long. 5.5 inches wide. 10 inches tall.\u003c\/strong\u003e Two and a half feet of the most decorated battleship in the U.S. Navy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe fast-battleship silhouette — three triple 16-inch gun turrets, the modern superstructure, the anti-aircraft galleries that kept the carriers alive\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpecially molded pieces throughout\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDisplay stand included\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo crew figures included\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e⚠️ HEADS UP — STICKER APPLICATION:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis kit uses \u003cstrong\u003e3 stickers\u003c\/strong\u003e for the battleship crest markings. All other detail is clean. We want you to know up front before you order. No surprises when the box arrives.\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BrixKrieg","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54089981755691,"sku":"BB_55","price":209.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0948\/0155\/9851\/files\/NORTHCAROLINA.png?v=1791176427","url":"https:\/\/brixkrieg.com\/products\/uss-north-carolina","provider":"BrixKrieg","version":"1.0","type":"link"}