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USS ''Guam'' (CB-2) was an large cruiser which served with the United States Navy during the end 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. Due to her commissioning late in the war, ''Guam'' saw relatively limited service during the war. She participated in operations off Okinawa in March–July 1945, including providing anti-aircraft defense for the carrier task force and conducting limited shore bombardment operations. She participated in sweeps for Japanese shipping in the East China and Yellow Seas in July–August 1945. After the end of the war, she assisted in the occupation of Korea and transported a contingent of US Army troops back to the United States. She was decommissioned in February 1947 and placed in reserve, where she remained until she was stricken in 1960 and sold for scrapping the following year. ==Description and construction== (詳細はNew York Shipbuilding in Camden, New Jersey. She was launched on 12 November 1943, after which fitting-out work was effected. The ship was completed by September 1944, and she was commissioned into the US Navy on 17 September, under the command of Captain Leland Lovette.〔Garzke & Dulin, p. 187〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/g9/guam-ii.htm )〕 She cost the US Navy $67,053,828 at her completion.〔Egan, p. 32〕 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 .〔Gardiner & Chesneau, p. 122〕〔Egan, p. 36〕 She carried four floatplanes, housed in two hangars,〔Garzke & Dulin, p. 182〕 with a pair of aircraft catapults mounted amidships.〔Friedman, p. 303〕 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.〔L/50 refers to the length of the gun in terms of calibers. An L/50 gun is 50 times long as it is in bore diameter.〕 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 guns and 34 single-mounted 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.〔Friedman, p. 483〕 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.〔Swanborough & Bowers, p. 169〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「USS Guam (CB-2)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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