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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Alaska (CB-1), 1944-1960 --
Actions & Activities

This page features all our views of USS Alaska's actions and activities.

For additional images of USS Alaska, see:
USS Alaska (CB-1), 1944-1960; and
USS Alaska (CB-1) -- Views Taken on Board.

If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

Photo #: NH 57215

USS Alaska (CB-1)


Photographed during launching at the New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, New Jersey, on 15 August 1943.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image:120KB; 605 x 765 pixels

 
Photo #: 80-G-K-5579 (Color)

USS Missouri (BB-63)


Crewmen at their battle stations in the 40mm quad anti-aircraft machine gun mounting atop Turret Two, during the battleship's shakedown cruise, circa August 1944.
USS Alaska (CB-1) is in the center background, with a destroyer beyond her.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 81KB; 740 x 580 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 
Photo #: 80-G-K-5583 (Color)

USS Alaska (CB-1)


Photographed from atop a 5"/38 gun mount on USS Missouri (BB-63) during their shakedown cruise, Summer 1944.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 47KB; 740 x 580 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 
Photo #: 80-G-K-5584 (Color)

USS Alaska (CB-1)


Maneuvers in front of USS Missouri (BB-63) during their shakedown cruise, circa August 1944.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 98KB; 485 x 765 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 
Photo #: NH 90742

USS Guam (CB-2)


Halftone photo of Guam with her sister Alaska (CB-1) at anchor off the China coast in late August or early September 1945.

Copied from the ship's wartime cruise book, "U.S.S. Guam: Her Story, 1944-1945".

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 117KB; 595 x 765 pixels

 
Photo #: 80-G-480262

Bayonne Naval Supply Depot, New Jersey


Photographed on 15 April 1953 with ships in reserve.
The two large ships at right on the near side of the peninsula are Alaska (CB-1) and Guam (CB-2).
The next two ships astern are North Carolina (BB-55) and Washington (BB-56). Further astern are (from outboard to inboard) Fargo (CL-106), Albemarle (AV-5) and Wakefield (AP-21). The carriers Enterprise (CV-6) and Franklin (CV-13) are at the far left.
Also present are the escort carriers Card (CVE-11), Croatan (CVE-25), Mission Bay (CVE-59), and Guadalcanal (CVE-60) along with the cruisers Providence (CL-82), Little Rock (CL-92), Spokane (CLAA-120) and Fresno (CLAA-121). One of the two CLAAs is tied up outboard of the Alaskas.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 112KB; 595 x 675 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 

For additional images of USS Alaska, see:
USS Alaska (CB-1), 1944-1960; and
USS Alaska (CB-1) -- Views Taken on Board.


If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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25 April 2000