05912 1/144 DKM Navy Type VIIC UBoat Plastic Model Kit

The Trumpeter 1/144 DKM Navy Type VII-C U-Boat from the plastic submarine model kits range accurately recreates the real life German WWII submarine. This model requires paint and glue to complete. Type VIIC U-boat (Unterseeboot) of the German Navy submarine fleet. 568 craft were launched between 1940 and 1945, starting with U-69. Type VIIC was in operational service early in WWII near the end of the Battle of the Atlantic, the so-called "First Happy Time" when U-boats inflicted heavy losses against British Royal Navy and allied shipping. Between January and August 1942, German U-boats struck US Navy & merchant shipping in a phase of WWII known as the “Second Happy Time” in the Atlantic off the east coast of North America, causing heavy losses. Type VIIC was the most numerous submarine in service when Allied efforts finally defeated the U-boat campaign in late 1943/early 1944.

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