The U.S. Navy had two battlecruisers during WW2, the USS Guam (CB1) and the USS Alaska (CB2). They were formally known as "Large Cruisers", but they matched the description of earlier battlecruisers, and so they are.
They were large ships, about 800 feet long and over 30,000 tons, that carried battleship guns (12 inch, like the USS Arkansas) but were lightly armored, only enough to defeat 8 inch shells. And they were fast, 33 knots.
Their secondary armament was 12 5"/38s in twin mounts, the same as the Baltimore class heavy cruisers.
They were in service for about the last year of the war, and were scrapped in 1959, I believe.
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