 Due to being commissioned late in the war , Alaska saw relatively limited service . She participated in operations off Iwo Jima and Okinawa in February – July 1945 , including providing anti @-@ aircraft defense for various carrier task forces and conducting limited shore bombardment operations . She shot down several Japanese aircraft off Okinawa , including a possible Ohka piloted missile . In July – August 1945 she participated in sweeps for Japanese shipping in the East China and Yellow Seas . After the end of the war , she assisted in the occupation of Korea and transported a contingent of US Army troops back to the United States . She was decommissioned in February 1947 and placed in reserve , where she remained until she was stricken in 1960 and sold for scrapping the following year . 
