RC READY TO RUN USS BLACK – FLETCHER CLASS DESTROYER
USS Black, a 2050-ton Fletcher class destroyer built at Kearny, New Jersey, was
commissioned in May 1943. After shakedown and training in the western Atlantic
and Caribbean areas, she passed through the Panama Canal in mid-November 1943 to join the war
against Japan. Black's first combat operations took place during
that month and the next, as she served in the newly-captured Gilbert Islands on
patrol, escort and air-sea rescue duties. In the first seven months of 1944 the
destroyer participated in the campaigns to capture positions in the Marshalls,
Admiralties, northern New Guinea and the Marianas. She was next in combat during
the invasion of Leyte in October and subsequently escorted reinforcement convoys
to the Philippines. In addition to performing screening missions during this
time, Black occasionally used her guns to bombard the enemy ashore.
Scale: 1:125
Size of Model:
47 inches or 1120mm
Material: Fiberglass Hull, Wood deck, resin and brass
fittings
Drive System: 2 x 540 type motors, 2 x shaft & propellers
R/C system: 2 channel radio, one servo and one ESC
Following overhaul in the United States, Black returned to the Western Pacific in March 1945 and immediately took part in aircraft carrier raids on Japan. She served her role as a radar picket ship and carrier escort during much of the long and brutal
Okinawa campaign in April, May and June, surviving several air attacks with
minor damage. In July Black screened battleships and cruisers during two
bombardments of the Japanese home islands and, on 15 August 1945, the day Japan
agreed to surrender, was present during one of the Pacific War's final Kamikaze
suicide plane attacks. After supporting occupation operations off China and
Korea in September and October, Black steamed back to the U.S. West Coast, where
she was placed out of commission in August 1946.
The Cold War brought Black back into commission in July 1951. Atlantic Fleet
service followed, broken by a Korean War deployment that took her around the
World, westbound, between January and August 1953. At the beginning of 1955 she
permanently returned to the Pacific. Over the next decade and a half, Black
regularly crossed the great ocean to take her place as a unit of the Seventh
Fleet, serving as an aircraft carrier escort, taking part in antisubmarine
warfare exercises, patrolling in the Taiwan Strait and visiting ports throughout
the Far East. Her tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth post-World War II
Western Pacific deployments, beginning in early 1965, included Vietnam War
service. Among her duties during this time were early participation in "Market
Time" coastal patrol and interdiction operations, providing naval gunfire
support for forces ashore and screening carriers as they took the war to the
North Vietnamese enemy. USS Black's last overseas cruise ended in July 1969. She
was decommissioned in late September of that year and sold for scrapping in
February 1971.
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