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Description:
Weser Aircraft Carrier
Proposed German Navy auxiliary aircraft carrier.

The loss of BISMARCK to British carrier-borne aircraft and surface salvos in May 1941 and aerial attacks on TIRPITZ in March 1942, emphasised to the German High Command the strategic importance of aircraft carriers.

Project WESER 1 was a planned carrier conversion of an unfinished Admiral Hipper Class heavy cruiser, SEYDLITZ, berthed at Bremen. But the reconstruction wasn't completed; works had begun in 1942, only to be abandoned the following summer. The partially-stripped vessel was towed to Konigsberg (Kaliningrad) on the Baltic Sea in March/April 1944 and scuttled in early 1945, prior to the Red Army's arrival. Raised by the Russians in 1946, potentially as a source o
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Manufacturer:
Trumpeter
Code Number:
TU05633
Scale:
1:350
Item type:
Ship kits, full and waterline hull (injection)
Price:
£124.99
Order Quantity:
Quantity In Stock:
In Stock 1
Availability:
This will usually be dispatched within 24/48 hours of receiving your order
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Department:
Catalogue



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