Description

USS Belleau Wood LHA-3 24 inch Model

Fly off of the USS Belleau Wood LHA 3 in this handcrafted wooden model. Each model is carved from wood and handcrafted to provide a piece you’ll love.

• Length – 24 inches
• Made from Mahogany
• US Veteran Owned Business
• Tarawa Class
• The product is not intended to be used by children 12 years and younger.

USS Belleau Wood (LHA-3), nicknamed “Devil Dog”, was an amphibious assault ship and the second ship named after the World War I Battle of Belleau Wood. Her keel was laid down on 5 March 1973 at Pascagoula, Mississippi, by Ingalls Shipbuilding. She was launched on 11 April 1977, and commissioned on 23 September 1978.

Belleau Wood was the third of five ships in a new class (Tarawa class) of general-purpose amphibious assault ships, which combined into one ship type the functions previously performed by four different types: the landing platform helicopter (LPH), the amphibious transport dock (LPD), the amphibious cargo ship (LKA), and the dock landing ship (LSD). She was capable of landing elements of a United States Marine Corps battalion landing team and their supporting equipment by landing craft, helicopters, or a combination of both.