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Originally Posted by retmil46
They also built two ships of the Alaska class, the only real battlecruisers the USN ever built, the Alaska and Guam. Same basic layout as the "real" battleships, but essentially just big cruisers with nine 12 inch guns.
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Those always struck me as a bad idea. They have the kick of a battleship but none of the armor. So one needs to shoot and get the heck out of there, bad idea to get into a slugging match with a battleship.
As proof of this I offer only one name
Hood.