MERIT 1/200 USS Hornet CV-8 Aircraft Carrier #62001 Plastic Model Kit

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MERIT 1/200 USS Hornet CV-8 Aircraft Carrier #62001 Plastic Model Kit
This kit was manufactured by Trumpeter Models and marketed by Merit International.
This is an unassembed plastic model kit.  The Kit contains more then 1250 parts and 9 Photo-etched plates. The Hull and Deck are both made from one piece.
USS Hornet (CV-8), the seventh ship to carry the name Hornet, was a Yorktown-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. During World War II in the Pacific Theater, she launched the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo and participated in the Battle of Midway and the Buin-Faisi-Tonolai Raid. In the Solomon Islands campaign, she was involved in the capture and defense of Guadalcanal and the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands where she was irreparably damaged by enemy torpedo and dive bombers. Faced with an approaching Japanese surface force, Hornet was abandoned and later torpedoed and sunk by approaching Japanese destroyers. Hornet was in service for a year and six days and was the last US fleet carrier ever sunk by enemy fire. For these actions, she was awarded four service stars, a citation for the Doolittle Raid in 1942, and her Torpedo Squadron 8 received a Presidential Unit Citation for extraordinary heroism for the Battle of Midway. Her wreck was located in late January 2019 near the Solomon Islands.