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  • Member since
    January 2005
  • From: Washington
Searching for the USS Utah....
Posted by uproar on Thursday, January 20, 2005 8:23 AM
Greetings---I wonder if anyone knows of the availability (or lack thereof) of a model of the USS Utah. It was a battleship, Florida Class, decommissioned to a Target Ship in the 1930's, and was capsized and sunk at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. I'm particularly interested because my father was a survivor. I have been unable to find a kit anywhere, and with all due respect to the USS Arizona, I really feel that other vessels involved that day really deserve fair recognition as well. Can anyone help me? Thank you!
  • Member since
    January 2003
Posted by Jeff Herne on Thursday, January 20, 2005 10:02 AM
No one to my knowledge does Utah in any of her configurations at present. I wouldn't put it past Iron Shipwrights to release one sometime in the future, as it appears they are doing most of the Pearl Harbor battleline and a few others as well.

Sorry I couldn't offer more help...especially for a survivor. Those are the 'special' builds that stay with you forever.

Best Regards,

Jeff
  • Member since
    January 2005
  • From: Washington
Posted by uproar on Thursday, January 20, 2005 6:52 PM
Thank you for your help. Fifty-eight men died on the Utah at Pearl Harbor (the website makes the curious distinction "52 men and 6 officers", as if officers were somehow a different species)--it is likely my father survived only because he overslept that morning and was still in his bunk when the strafing began. I've never really understood why a kit has never been available--at least in its battleship configuration. I shall keep an eye out for it. Here is an interesting website:

http://www.pastfoundation.org/Arizona/UtahHistory.htm
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