Editing Alaska-class cruiser (section)

=== Anti-aircraft battery ===
[[File:40mm gun practice on USS Alaska (CB-1), 1945.jpg|thumb|upright|Crew of a [[Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60|40 mm Bofors gun]] on ''Alaska'' mount ammunition clips into the loaders of a pair of guns on 6 March 1945 during the [[Battle of Iwo Jima]]]]

Medium anti-aircraft armament (a key component of area air defence within a Task Group) on the ''Alaska''-class ships was 56 x 40mm [[Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60|Bofors gun]]s and for close-in air defence they carried 34 × 20&nbsp;mm guns. These numbers may be compared with; 48 × 40&nbsp;mm and 24 × 20&nbsp;mm on the smaller ''Baltimore''-class heavy cruisers, 60 x 40&nbsp;mm and 36 x 20&nbsp;mm on the larger battleship ''North Carolina'' at the end of the war, and 80 × 40&nbsp;mm and 49 × 20&nbsp;mm on the even larger ''Iowa''-class battleships.<ref name="Alaska DANFS"/><ref>{{cite DANFS | title = Baltimore | url = http://hazegray.org/danfs/cruisers/ca68.txt | access-date=15 October 2008|short=yes|link=no| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080906103026/http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/cruisers/ca68.txt| archive-date= 6 September 2008 | url-status= live}}</ref><ref>{{cite DANFS | title = Iowa | url = http://hazegray.org/danfs/battlesh/bb61.htm | access-date=15 October 2008|short=yes|link=no| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080920053724/http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/battlesh/bb61.htm| archive-date= 20 September 2008 | url-status= live}}</ref>