User blog comment:Void Samukai/Alaska class discussion post/@comment-27797576-20150621141143

Ok, no point really agrueing as most of the points are valid. But as to more why it was classified as a large cruiser...... For one, the US had never built battle cruisers, and the only reason they even built them was to destroy a Japanese design that never got off the drawing board, or at least didn't make it to service before the war ended. Also, the US classified it as a large cruiser because it was, essentially, a larger cruiser, with bigger guns.