USS Juneau

USS Juneau

Three ships of the United States Navy have been named USS "Juneau", after the city of Juneau, Alaska.

*USS|Juneau|CL-52 was a light cruiser commissioned February 1942 and sunk eight months later in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, particularly notable for the loss of the five Sullivan brothers.

*USS|Juneau|CL-119 was also a light cruiser, commissioned 1946, active in the Korean War and scrapped in 1962

*USS|Juneau|LPD-10 is an amphibious transport dock commissioned in 1969 and currently on active service


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