USS Guam (CB-2) was an Alaska-class large cruiser of the United States Navy, commissioned in September 1944. She served as a fast carrier escort for much of her wartime service, as well as a shore bombardment platform for amphibious landings, namely the Marianas Campaign. Aside from a single kamikaze strike during the Marianas campaign, Guam escaped major damage up through war's end in September 1945, and following repairs and refit at the Bremerton Navy Yard in the late spring of 1946, she was assigned to patrol duties around Japan and the Marianas, a role in which she remained for the next several years, until again serving as a shore bombardment platform, for US and UN troops in the Korean War, from 1950-52.