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USS GUAM (CB 2)

Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign: November - Uniform - Delta - Lima

CLASS - ALASKA
Displacement 27,000 Tons, Dimensions, 808' 6" (oa) x 90' 9" x 31' 9" (Max)
Armament 9 x 12"/50 12 x 5/38AA, 56 x 40mm 34 x 20mm, 4 AC
Armor, 9" Belt, 12 4/5" Turrets, 1 2/5" +4" +5/8" Decks, 10 3/5" Conning Tower.
Machinery, 150,000 SHP; G.E. Geared Turbines, 4 screws
Speed, 33 Knots, Crew 1517.
Operational and Building Data
Keel laid in FEB 1942 at New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, NJ
Launched 12 NOV 1943
Commissioned 17 SEP 1944
Decommissioned 17 FEB 1947
Stricken 01 JUN 1960
Fate: Sold for scrap to Boston Metals Co., Baltimore, MD on 24 MAY 1961

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Navy Combat Action Ribbon - China Service Medal - American Campaign Medal
Second Row - Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal (2) - World War II Victory Medal - World War II Occupation Medal w/Asia clasp

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
04020221	125k	Commissioning Program, 17 September 1944	Robert M. Cieri Ron Reeves
04020222	154k	Commissioning Program, 17 September 1944	Ron Reeves
04020223	140k	Commissioning Program, 17 September 1944	Ron Reeves
	134k	USS Guam (CB 2) Halftone photo of the ship's superstructure as the flag is raised for the first time during her commissioning ceremony, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, 17 September 1944. Copied from the ship's wartime cruise book, "U.S.S. Guam: Her Story, 1944-1945". U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 90735.	USNHC
	188k	USS Guam (CB 2) Halftone photo of the ship's commissioning ceremony, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, 17 September 1944. Copied from the ship's wartime cruise book, "U.S.S. Guam: Her Story, 1944-1945". U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 90734.	USNHC
	84k	Port view, as built. (Poor Image)	USN
	80k	Undated starboard side view at anchor.	Robert M. Cieri
04020214	169k	Port bow view, 25 October 1944. U.S. Navy Photo #2339-44	David Buell
04020215	143k	Aerial starboard bow view, 25 October 1944. U.S. Navy Photo #2341-44	David Buell
04020216	179k	Aerial port bow view, 25 October 1944. U.S. Navy Photo #2342-44	David Buell
04020217	149k	Aerial port bow view, 25 October 1944. U.S. Navy Photo #2343-44	David Buell
04020213	79k	Port quarter overhead view, 25 October 1944. U.S. Navy Photo #2345-44	David Buell
04020219	161k	Aerial bow view, 25 October 1944. U.S. Navy Photo #2347-44	David Buell
04020218	210k	Aerial stern view, 25 October 1944. U.S. Navy Photo #2348-44	David Buell
04020224	207k	Underway during her shakedown cruise in November 1944	David Buell
	151k	USS Guam (CB 2) Underway during shakedown on 13 November 1944. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center #NH 97132.	USNHC
	116k	USS Guam (CB 2) Coming out of a turn, circa 1944. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center #NH 97131.	USNHC
	100k	USS Guam (CB 2) Photographed off Trinidad on 13 November 1944 during shakedown training. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 67519.	USNHC
	91k	USS Guam (CB 2) Halftone photo of the ship conducting main battery gunnery practice during shakedown off Trinidad, November-December 1944. Copied from the ship's wartime cruise book, "U.S.S. Guam: Her Story, 1944-1945". U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 90736.	USNHC
	112k	USS Guam (CB 2) Halftone photo of the ship's bow during main battery gunnery practice, 1944-45. Copied from the ship's wartime cruise book, "U.S.S. Guam: Her Story, 1944-1945". U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 90740.	USNHC
	57k	USS Guam (CB 2) Photographed in the Delaware River, circa January 1945. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 92283.	USNHC
	1.2m	USS Guam (CB 2) Moored at Pearl Harbor on 21 February 1945. The port catapult and aircraft crane are trained over the side. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the National Archives, #80-G-322264	David Buell
04020220	44k	Image of the USS Guam taken in September 1945 off Korea from the USS Wilkes (DD 441). From the collection of William J. Mosher located at the National Destroyermens Museum housed aboard the USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. (DD 850).	Ed Zajkowski
04020225	85k	Moored in Bayonne, NJ, 1946. Note the waterline.	David Buell
04020148	161k	Guam (left) and Alaska (right) moored in Bayonne, NJ, date unknown.	David Buell

Commanding Officers
Name/Rank	Class	Final Rank	Dates
Lovette, Leland P., CAPT	1918	VADM	09/17/44 - 10/06/45
Watkins, Frank Thomas, CAPT	1922	VADM	10/06/45 - 04/46
Holcombe, Charles Mortimer, CDR			04/46 - 02/17/47

(List courtesy of Wolfgang Hechler & Ron Reeves - Photos courtesy of Bill Gonyo)

USS GUAM (CB 2) History
View This Vessels DANFS History Entry on the U.S. Navy Historical Center website.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

Contact Name: USS Guam Assn
Address: PO Box 85 Island Heights, NJ, 08732-0085
Phone: None

Note About Contacts.

The contact listed, Was the contact at the time for this ship when located. If another person now is the contact, E-mail me and I will update this entry. These contacts are compiled from various sources over a long period of time and may or may not be correct. Every effort has been made to list the newest contact if more than one contact was found.

Additional Resources
Hazegray & Underway Cruiser Pages By Andrew Toppan.

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