Alaska-class cruiser
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alaska-class-cruiser-167-9116463
title:
Alaska-class cruiser
text:
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. However, various other works have alternately described these ships as battlecruisers despite the USN having never classified them as such, and havi
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encyclopedia
description:
Late WWII-era class of "large cruisers" of the U.S. Navy
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska-class_cruiser
date created:
2004-02-23T07:28:01Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T09:34:33Z
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13
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