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I thought of this on the Most/least divisive weapons thread where the Alaska class were ruled one of the least divisive ship classes by virtue of being almost unanimously seen as bad. DD951 mentioned that they would have been excellent for the shore bombardment role the Iowa battleships and Des Moines were brought out of retirement for in the 1980s. Keeping the Alaska's in the ghost fleet in decent shape from the 1940s to 1980 is hard but Alaska and Guam were only stricken and scrapped between 1960 and 1962. If they were kept in the ghost fleet a little longer what happens if they are brought out of retirement for short bombardment duty off Vietnam like the Iowas and Des Moines' IOTL? Would they have been kept around after Vietnam long enough to be brought back for the Reagan era naval build up?