Soon after her commissioning, Texas saw action in Mexican waters following the’Tampico Incident’ and made numerous sorties into the North Sea during World War I. When the United States formally entered World War II in 1941, Texas escorted war convoys across the Atlantic, and later shelled Axis-held beaches for the North African campaign and the Normandy Landings before being transferred to the Pacific Theater late in 1944 to provide naval gunfire support during the Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Kit features hull split into two parts with deck wood pattern finely rendered, display stand with engraved nameplate, and photo-etched detail parts. This finely detailed plastic model kit requires assembly and painting.