Landing Ship Tank Model Ship: A Beautiful Addition to Your Collection

Warplanes specialized model ships are uniquely designed and manufactured using the latest innovations and techniques applied in the over-all manufacturing and operation process procedures. Warplanes’ LST Landing Ship Tank uses only high-quality grade and premium materials by our renowned master craftsmen and accomplished team. This ensures that each Landing Ship Tank model ship is precisely based on the exact blueprint of the original LST Landing Ship Tank vessel.

Our vast selections of scale model ships are virtually huge to suit your preferences, just like this breathtaking Landing Ship Tank. Its parts including the weaponries, armament, guns and hulls are extremely accurate and precise like the original LST Landing Ship tank. This ship model will fascinate anyone who gazes at it for its remarkable and exceptional quality. Landing Ship Tank also comes with an extremely durable base stand engraved with the ship’s official insignia.

Landing Ship Tank LST History:

Landing Ship Tank - abbreviation LST, naval ship specially designed to transport and deploy troops, vehicles, and supplies onto foreign shores for the conduct of offensive military operations.

The USS LST-494, a U.S. Navy amphibious tank landing ship, saw combat during World War II in both the European and Pacific Theaters of War. On June 5, 1944 The USS LST-494 departed Plymouth, England and became part of the largest amphibious force in the history of warfare. On D-Day, June 6, 1944, she made the initial assault on "bloody" Omaha Beach during the invasion of Normandy. The 494 landed 378 men of the U.S. Army`s 26th Infantry Regiment (known as the "Blue Spaders" from their distinctive spad-shaped regimental emblem). The 26th Regiment was part of the 1st Infantry Division ("The Big Red One"). Troops aboard the ship were under the command of Major James B. Carvey (West Point Class of 1939). Anti-aircraft fire from the 494 helped down a German Messerschmitt over the invasion beachhead. On June 6th LST 494 aided the USS LCT (Armoredthat had been hit on her starboard side by enemy fire or a mine and was in danger of sinking. On July 7th, V-1 “buzz bombs” passed over LST 494 for many hours. One passed 300 feet over LST 494. LST 494 sailors saw American fighter planes shoot down a number of these aerial bombs.

On July 10th LST 494 aided 17 officers and 320 men from the Polish cruiser Dragon. The Dragon had been torpedoed off the coast of Caen, France by a one man German mini-submarine on July 8 and had to be scuttled. LST 494 continued to support the invasion forces through mid-July 1944, by bringing in reinforcements and by operating as a hospital ship carrying wounded servicemen back to England. During the Normandy campaign, LST 494 transported and landed a total of 1,420 American and Canadian soldiers along with 577 tanks, trucks and other vehicles.