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USS Guam was an Alaska-class large cruiser which served with the United States Navy during the last year of World War II. She was the second and last ship of her class to be completed. The ship was the second vessel of the US Navy to be named after the island of Guam, an American territory in the Pacific, and she was assigned the hull number CB-2.
USS Guam (LPH-9), was an Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ship, and was laid down by the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard on 15 November 1962; launched on 22 August 1964, sponsored by Mrs. Vaughn H. Emory Green, and commissioned on 16 January 1965. She was the third US Navy ship to carry the name, after the US Territory of Guam.
USS Guam (PG-43) was a river gunboat in China, renamed Wake in January 1941 and captured by the Japanese in December; USS Guam (CB-2) was an Alaska-class cruiser in service from 1944 to 1947; USS Guam (LPH-9) was an Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ship in service from 1965 to 1998; USNS Guam (HST-1), formerly HSC Huakai, is a ferry used to ...
USNS Guam (T-HST-1), formerly Hawaii Superferry's Huakai, is a United States Navy high-speed transport vessel. [2] The ship was completed in September 2008 and was intended to start Hawaiian service in May 2009, though delivery postponements saw that planned service canceled.
USS Guam (CB-2) was commissioned on 17 September 1944. She served in the Pacific with Alaska on almost all of the same operations. Along with Alaska, she was decommissioned on 17 February 1947 and was scrapped in 1961. [5] USS Hawaii (CB-3) was intended as a third ship of the class
One ship of this class, USS Guam (LPH-9), was used in a 1970-1974 Sea Control Ship experiment to test the concept of a smaller aircraft carrier using V/STOL aircraft. Another ship, USS Inchon (LPH-12), was converted to a mine countermeasures ship which hosted mine sweeping helicopters.
English: The U.S. Navy amphibious assault ship USS Guam (LPH-9). She was assigned to Task Group 44.9 for a cruise to the Caribbean Sea from December 1966 to 6 May 1967. On deck are Sikorsky UH-34D of Marine Medium Helicopter Transport Squadron 162 (HMM-162).
USS Lexington (CV-2, ex ... Alaska and Guam served for the last year of World War II as bombardment ships and fast carrier escorts. Once the two ships reached Bayonne