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USS Alaska (CB-1) was the lead ship of the Large Cruiser Alaska class. The Alaska was a ship built to be in size between a heavy cruiser and a battleship.
Entering WWII in the Pacific Theatre in January 1945, she was primarily assigned to Carrier Task Force screening and protection duty as part of the famed Task Force 58 and Task Force 38, the primary U.S. Navy strike forces in the Pacific Theatre, and Task Force 95, which carried out operations in the East China Sea.
In addition to supporting the landings and capture at Iwo Jima, she also participated in the invasion of Okinawa, and operations to destroy airfields on the Japanese main islands to prevent their aircraft from being used in the Okinawa effort.
Her final war operations included support of Army occupational forces in Korea, and Marine landings in China. She was decommissioned in 1947, having earned 3 Battle Stars during her short WWII service, struck from the Naval Register in 1960, and eventually scrapped.
Original NASA Mercury Astronaut Wally Schirra served on the Alaska as a newly commissioned Naval officer.
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