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USS Oakland
or San Diego (Atlanta Class)
Premium
Edition Kit *
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Kit's # DC104
Gone for Now
Super Detailed
Free Photo-etching.
This ship kit it 10" long.
*
This kit is our first ship model in our new Premium Edition Kit
series.
This kit combines some items from previous titles and adds new technology and
new parts such as improved cannons and guns, and photo-etched parts for extra
refinement.
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Main Features:
- new arrangement of bridge structure
- updated radar for USS San Diego
- improved 120mm cannons
- updated 20mm single mount guns
- updated 40mm Bofors quad mount cannons
- new 1.1" machine cannons by photo-etched part
- photo-etched racks for depth charges
- deck railings rendered by photo-etched parts
- new life rafts (2 types)
- new Cartograf decals
About this new series: What are Dragon Premium Edition
Kits?
Premium Edition kits strike an optimum balance between technology and value
for the money,
often with the reuse and revival of existing Dragon Models. New technology
is added to
create new molds and more accurate parts, and these elements are combined to
produce
a greatly improved kit. Premium Edition kits are complete in every sense
and offer modelers
a chance to extend their fleet of model ships.
Any of these ships can be built with this kit with extra decals.!
About the U.S.S. San
Diego (CL-53):
The second USS San Diego (CL-53) was an Atlanta-class light cruiser of the
United States Navy, commissioned just after the US entry into World War II, and
active throughout the Pacific theater.
After shakedown training in Chesapeake Bay, San Diego sailed via the Panama
Canal to the west coast, arriving at her namesake city on 16 May 1942. Escorting
Saratoga (CV-3) at best speed, San Diego barely missed the Battle of Midway. On
15 June, she began escort duty for Hornet (CV-8) in operations in the South
Pacific. Early in August, she supported the first American offensive of the war,
the invasion of the Solomons at Guadalcanal. With powerful air and naval forces,
the Japanese fiercely contested the American thrust and inflicted heavy damage;
San Diego witnessed the sinking of Wasp (CV-7) on 15 September and of Hornet on
26 October.
San Diego gave antiaircraft protection for Enterprise (CV-6) as part of the
decisive three-day Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, 12 to 15 November 1942. After
several months of service in the dangerous waters surrounding the Solomon
Islands, San Diego sailed via Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, to Auckland New
Zealand, for replenishment.
She was decommissioned and placed in the Pacific Reserve Fleet on 4 November
1946, berthed at Bremerton, Washington. She was redesignated CLAA-53 on 18 March
1949. Ten years later, she was struck from the Naval Vessel Register, on 1 March
1959.
San Diego received 15 battle stars for service in World War II.
| No. | Name | Comm. | Notes (: Lost) |
| CL-51 | Atlanta decals inside box | 24 Dec 1941 | 13 Nov 1942; torpedo &
gunfire at Battle of Guadalcanal |
| CL-97 | Flint | 31 Aug 1944 | |
| CL-121 | Fresno | 1946 | |
| CL-52 | Juneau decals inside box | 14 Feb 1942 | 13 Nov 1942; torpedo at Battle of Guadalcanal |
| CL-119 | Juneau | 1946 | |
| CL-95 | Oakland | 17 Jul 1943 | |
| CL-96 | Reno | 28 Dec 1943 | |
| CL-53 | San Diego | 10 Jan 1942 | decals inside box |
| CL-54 | San Juan | 28 Feb 1942 | decals inside box |
| CL-120 | Spokane | 1946 | |
| CL-98 | Tucson | 3 Feb 1945 |
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