USS KIDD DD661 "FLETCHER CLASS DESTROYER"
 

USS KIDD DD661 - this is the USS Kidd you have been reading about in the modeling magazines. Master model builder Bob Steinbrunn used this kit as the basis for creating his masterpiece that won absolutely everything (Best In Show, US Navy Award, and Best Kit Built) at the 2000 Mariner's Museum competition. There were 175 Fletchers built during WWII. The USS Kidd is preserved as a museum ship in Baton Rouge, LA and is typical of the class, carrying every weapon system ever put on a Fletcher class ship during the war.