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Wartime conditions ultimately reduced the ''Alaska'' class to two ships. Construction of CB-3 through CB-6 - along with the five [[Montana-class battleship|Montana]] (BB-67) class battleships - was suspended in May 1942 to free up steel and other resources for more urgently needed escorts and landing craft. A year later, CB-4 through CB-6 were definitively cancelled. ''Hawaii'' (CB-3), however, was restored to the building program. Launched and partially fitted out, her construction was suspended and she was considered for conversion to a missile ship or command ship, but she was scrapped, still incomplete, in 1959.
Wartime conditions ultimately reduced the ''Alaska'' class to two ships. Construction of CB-3 through CB-6 - along with the five [[Montana-class battleship|Montana]] (BB-67) class battleships - was suspended in May 1942 to free up steel and other resources for more urgently needed escorts and landing craft. A year later, CB-4 through CB-6 were definitively cancelled. ''Hawaii'' (CB-3), however, was restored to the building program. Launched and partially fitted out, her construction was suspended and she was considered for conversion to a missile ship or command ship, but she was scrapped, still incomplete, in 1959.
After more normal construction periods, ''Alaska'' (CB-1) and ''Guam'' (CB-2) both arrived in the Pacific theater ready for action in early 1945. There they carried out both of their designed missions - carrier protection and surface strike - although their chances of encountering their primary intended opponents, Japanese heavy cruisers, had long since disappeared. Both returned to the U.S. soon after the war's end and, not finding a place in the postwar active fleet, remained in reserve until scrapped in 1960-61.
After more normal construction periods, ''Alaska'' (CB-1) and ''Guam'' (CB-2) both arrived in the Pacific theater ready for action in early 1945. There they carried out both of their designed missions - carrier protection and surface strike - although their chances of encountering their primary intended opponents, Japanese heavy cruisers, had long since disappeared. Both returned to the U.S. soon after the war's end and, not finding a place in the postwar active fleet, remained in reserve until scrapped in 1960–61.
The ''Alaska'' class consisted of six ships:
The ''Alaska'' class consisted of six ships: