Tamiya 1/350 IJN Japanese Navy Destroyer Kagero - 78032

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Listing Template 2018\n\n--Home\n\n--About Us\n\n--Latest Items\n\n--View Feedback\n\n--Add to Favourites\n\n--Contact Us\n\nDescription\n\nTamiya 1/350 Japanese Destroyer Kagero\nThis is model kit of the Japanese Navy Destroyer Kagero. The lead ship of the Kagero class of destroyers included 19 in total. Laid down in September 1937, the Kagero was completed in just over 2 years and was commissioned in November 1939. While the Kagero is recognized as an effective destroyer design, like many of her counterparts she in fact ended up largely doing escort work, sheepherding carriers toward their goal, as she did in the attacks on Pearl Harbor. Later in the war she saw action on the \""Tokyo Express\"" runs as destroyers were tasked with supplying and reinforcing beleaguered Japanese garrisons in the Solomons. She met her end at the hand of U.S. mines in 1943.\n\nKey design features of the kit\nThe aft deck features the additional twin 12.7cm gun turret seen on early- WWII Kagero ships (it ;