Trumpeter 1/350 USS San Francisco CA-38 1944 05310 nat_Japan expressed the specific need to

expressed the specific need to have available a heavy tank

V6 cylinder

splash guard on top of upper hull

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Trumpeter 1/350 USS San Francisco CA-38 1944 05310 nat_Japan expressed the specific need toSAN FRANCISCO, the second ship of NEW ORLEANS class, was launched in 1933 and commissioned in February 1934. In October 1941 she was taken in for a refit at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard. When the Japanese surprise attack came on December 7, 1941, she was still under repair, immobile and without air defense. A hastily repaired SAN FRANCISCO joined a task force to relieve Wake Island, but failed to arrive before the island fell to the enemy. In August, 1942,