| rdfs:comment | - USS Guam (CB-2) was ordered for construction on Febuary 2, 1942, and laid down some time later in the same year. She was launched on November 12, 1943 and commissioned on September 17, 1944. She served in the Pacific alongside USS Alaska (CB-1) during almost all of the operations she was involved in, including the bombardment of Okinawa. Along with USS Alaska, she was decommissioned on February 17, 1947 and was scrapped at Baltimore in 1961.
- The ship was long overall and had a beam of and a draft of . She displaced as designed and up to at full combat load. The ship was powered by four General Electric geared steam turbine sets, each driving one propeller, and eight oil-fired Babcock & Wilcox boilers rated at and a top speed of . The ship had a cruising range of at a speed of . She carried four floatplanes, housed in two hangars, with a pair of aircraft catapults mounted amidships.
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| abstract | - The ship was long overall and had a beam of and a draft of . She displaced as designed and up to at full combat load. The ship was powered by four General Electric geared steam turbine sets, each driving one propeller, and eight oil-fired Babcock & Wilcox boilers rated at and a top speed of . The ship had a cruising range of at a speed of . She carried four floatplanes, housed in two hangars, with a pair of aircraft catapults mounted amidships. The ship was armed with a main battery of nine 12 inch L/50 Mark 8 guns in three triple gun turrets, two in a superfiring pair forward and one aft of the superstructure. The secondary battery consisted of twelve 5-inch L/38 dual-purpose guns in six twin turrets. Two were placed on the centerline superfiring over the main battery turrets, fore and aft, and the remaining four turrets were placed on the corners of the superstructure. The light anti-aircraft battery consisted of 56 quad-mounted Bofors guns and 34 single-mounted Oerlikon guns. A pair of Mk 34 gun directors aided gunlaying for the main battery, while two Mk 37 directors controlled the 5-inch guns and a Mk 57 director aided the 40 mm guns. The main armored belt was thick, while the gun turrets had thick faces. The main armored deck was thick. Guam was laid down on 2 February 1942 by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, in Camden, New Jersey, launched on 12 November 1943, and commissioned on 17 September 1944. She received the first operational SC Seahawk floatplanes in October.
- USS Guam (CB-2) was ordered for construction on Febuary 2, 1942, and laid down some time later in the same year. She was launched on November 12, 1943 and commissioned on September 17, 1944. She served in the Pacific alongside USS Alaska (CB-1) during almost all of the operations she was involved in, including the bombardment of Okinawa. Along with USS Alaska, she was decommissioned on February 17, 1947 and was scrapped at Baltimore in 1961.
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