The 35,000-ton displacement battleship North Carolina (BB-55) was commissioned in April of 1941, and served with distinction throughout WWII in the Pacific Theater, from Guadalcanal to Okinawa, earning 15 battlestars for her service. Her nine 16-inch guns were employed in the coastal bombardment role during the US island-hopping campaigns of the Pacific, and her superlative anti-aircraft batteries played a vital role in protecting the vulnerable US aircraft carriers. Decommissioned in June of 1947, the North Carolina is now a museum ship, moored in Wilmington, North Carolina.

Pit-Road's 1/700 North Carolina is sharply molded in light gray, red, and black styrene. The kit can be built either waterline or full-hull, and includes a drydock-style stand to display the full-hull version. The 16-inch main guns in rotatable turrets can be built with either independently movable barrels with no weather covers or fixed barrels with the more accurate weather covers in place. The five-inch guns can raise or lower. The decal sheet includes markings for both the North Carolina and her sister ship, the Washington (BB-56).