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Home / Ships / WW2 Allied Ships / USS Washington BB-56 at Guadalcanal and Red-White-and-Blue

USS Washington BB-56 at Guadalcanal and Red-White-and-Blue

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The USS Washington BB-56, together with the USS South Dakota fought one of the last battleship-to-battleship engagements in the world against the IJN Kirishima. About 2 years ago, I had built this 1/700 scale model of USS Washington from Trumpeter, and used photo-etched parts from Tom’s Modelworks. The model is painted in her 1942 camouflage scheme of Measure 22 (Haze Grey upper, Navy Blue lower hull) and shown with her guns fixed on the Kirishima. The shell plumes are not historically accurate (none landed near the Washington), but what’s a Fourth-of-July post without some explosions and fireworks? Happy Independence Day!

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July 4, 2013 · 7 Comments

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  1. Cory thoulion says

    May 9, 2015 at 11:12 am

    My grand father Royal Lloyd Mclane served on the U.S. Washington in the guadal canal I believe!!
    Anyone know about it tell me I would love to hear

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    • Kenneth Cargill says

      December 17, 2018 at 7:06 am

      I have a Facebook. Type in USS WASHINGTON BB-56 battleship. Many papers and photos. My grandfather served on her 4.5 years. Ended up as a 5″ gunner. Enjoy!

      Reply
  2. Craig Peterson says

    February 1, 2016 at 2:27 pm

    Really cool Cory, I’m currently reading about that Naval engagement and came across your model which is really cool as I construct mostly armor models myself. Its cool if your grandpa was on the Washington during that vicious battle of Friday the 13th. Very little known battle but the ship is my favorite of the whole war except for the Big E. The only battleship to battleship close range night fight of the war and probably saved the whole Guadalcanal Campaign.

    Cheers
    Craig

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    • Ryan Agudelo says

      February 27, 2018 at 10:07 pm

      it is true the battle was pretty important, its sad that most people have never even heard of it. My favorite battleship is U.S.S Missouri, an iowa class battleship, the ship that carried the peace treaty to japan in 1945 after the nuke bombings.

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      • Paul says

        March 24, 2018 at 3:29 am

        US History today is poorly taught and badly skewed towards social issues as though war efforts were meaningless. We would be bowing to the Emperor or saluting Adolf Hitler if these battles had not been won.

        The Mighty Mo is famous for the Tokyo Bay scene and a worthwhile project to build as well.

        Paul

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  3. X says

    April 27, 2022 at 3:47 am

    You should correct the battle engagement statement; it was the IJN Kirishima!

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    • Paul says

      May 20, 2022 at 5:12 pm

      Thanks for catching that after this has been in publication since 2013! Corrected.

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