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USS Alaska was the lead ship of the Alaska-class "large cruisers" which served with the United States Navy during the end of World War II.She was the first of two ships of her class to be completed, followed only by Guam; four other ships were ordered but were not completed before the end of the war.
The Alaska-class were six large cruisers ordered before World War II for the United States Navy (USN), of which only two were completed and saw service late in the war. The USN designation for the ships of this class was 'large cruiser' (CB), a designation unique to the Alaska-class, and the majority of leading reference works consider them as such.
USS Alaska (ID-3035), a steam trawler chartered to serve as a minesweeper during World War I, in commission from 1918 to 1919 USS Alaska (CB-1) , the lead ship of the Alaska class of large cruisers, in commission from 1944 to 1947; she saw action in the last days of World War II
USS Alaska (SSBN-732), is a United States Navy Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine which has been in commission since 1986. She is the fourth US Navy ship to be named for the Territory or State of Alaska .
The Alaska-class cruisers were six very large cruisers ordered on 9 September 1940. [17] They were known, popularly and by some historians, as "battlecruisers", [ 18 ] [ 19 ] although the Navy and at least one prominent historian [ 17 ] discouraged describing them as such and gave them the hull symbol for large cruisers (CB).
Officials said an F-35 fighter jet crashed in Alaska on Tuesday after the pilot managed to safely eject from the aircraft – the latest mishap involving the U.S. military's most expensive weapon ...
The gun was first deployed in 1944, on the lead ship of the Alaska class, USS Alaska. [1] The two Alaska-class ships each had nine Mark 8 guns mounted in three triple (3-gun) turrets, with two turrets forward and one aft, a configuration known as "2-A-1". Only two vessels of the class were completed, making them the only applications of the ...
A pilot in Alaska safely ejected from an aircraft on Tuesday before it plummeted ... A flight deck crew member aboard the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier signals to an F-35 jet during the Rim of ...