This model followed a request by Yellow-13 for a US battleship, preferably the 'West Virginia' of 1944. I chose the 'California' instead, largely because of the better images available. Completed shortly after World War I, she served in the Pacific her entire career, and for twenty years was the flagship of the Pacific Fleet. She was sunk in the attack on Pearl Harbor at her moorings in Battleship Row, but was salvaged and reconstructed. She served again for the remainder of World War II before being decommissioned in 1947 and scrapped in July 1959.
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