History Characters / WorldOfWarshipsUnitedStatesOfAmerica

A theoretical 'superdreadnought', ''Kansas continues the trend set by ''Colorado'', though with two knots of speed over Colorado's maximum.

* TheBusCameBack: ''Independence'' returned in the 13.0 update as an early access ship, alongside ''Yorktown'' and ''Essex'', and will be made available on the tech tree in the 13.2 update.

With a total of 24 ships built, the Essex-class was the most numerous class of fleet carriers during World War II in the United States Navy and also the most numerous class of fleet carriers ever built by any nation. USS ''Lexington'' (no relation to the in-game T8 carrier), USS ''Yorktown'' (no relation to the ''other'' USS ''Yorktown'' that sank at Midway), USS ''Intrepid'' and USS ''Hornet'' (again, no relation to the ''other'' USS Hornet that sank in the Battle of Santa Cruz) are the four ships still preserved today as museum ships out of the 24 built. ''Essex'' was laid down in May 1941 and commissioned in December 1942 after her construction was accelerated due to Pearl Harbor. She joined the Pacific Fleet in May 1943 and cut her teeth in the Central Pacific at Wake, Rabaul, and Tarawa. She participated in Operation Hailstone, Marianas campaigns, and the invasion of the Philippines, where she was struck by a kamikaze on 25 November. After repairs, she rejoined the fleet and attacked targets from Formosa to Japan. She was modernized and recommissioned in 1951 and provided air support during the Korean War. After a second major modernization in 1955 she conducted exercises and maneuvers around the world. In 1961, she sortied in support of the Bay of Pigs invasion, though the airstrikes were ultimately canceled. She participated in thr blockade of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis and later was assigned as a recovery ship for the Apollo program, retrieving Apollo 7 after splashdown. Now superannuated, she was decommissioned in 1969 and sold for scrap in 1975.

* TheBusCameBack: ''Essex'' returned in the 13.0 update as an early access ship and will be made available as a research ship in 13.2

American Tier VII Light Cruiser. Formerly an available premium ship, now selectively available at different times. ''Atlanta'' was the lead ship of her class of 8 light cruisers. These cruisers were designed to provide antiaircraft fire support for the rest of the fleet; to this end, they were armed with a main battery of 16 dual-purpose 128mm guns in 8 turrets, letting them hurl tremendous amounts of fire into the air very quickly. ''Atlanta'' was laid down in 1940 and commissioned on 24 December 1941, just over two weeks after Pearl Harbor had conclusively proved the need for her and her sisters. After shakedown, she was sent to the Pacific, arriving in April 1942. She fought at Midway and the Eastern Solomons and conducted convoy escort and fire support duties during the Guadalcanal campaign. In November 1942, ''Atlanta'' was part of a task force led by Admiral Dan Callaghan that was assigned to protect the supply convoys running to the island. While patrolling the waters off Guadalcanal in the early morning of 13 November 1942, the task force encountered a Japanese strike group on its way to bombard the Marine airfield on the island, and a confused melee ensued. ''Atlanta'' was illuminated by the destroyer ''Akatsuki'' and promptly tore into her with her guns; the destroyer was overwhelmed and sunk in short order. Unfortunately for ''Atlanta'', she was hit shortly thereafter by a torpedo from another Japanese destroyer, and then suffered nineteen 203mm shell hits from the cruiser ''San Francisco'', [[FriendOrFoe apparently in a case of mistaken identity]]. The shells tore up her superstructure and killed Admiral Norman Scott, who was using ''Atlanta'' as his flagship. Daylight found the cruiser still afloat, but in such bad shape that her captain soon yielded to the inevitable and ordered her to be scuttled. She sank in 400 ft (120 m) of water, becoming one of the many wrecks of Iron Bottom Sound. Her wreck was relocated in 1992 by Robert Ballard, the man who found the ''Titanic'' and ''Bismarck'', and has since been explored on several occasions by technical divers.

* SeriesMascot: Atlanta has appeared in more promotional materials than any other ship and shes reportedly one of the best selling premiums. Her unique nature and the prominence of the ''Atlanta'' class in WWII contribute to this.

American Premium Tier VIII Battleship. A ''South Dakota''-class battleship, and currently a museum berthed in Mobile, Alabama. Initially only available as a reward for supertesters, it's now available in the tech tree/premium shop.

Another Tier VIII premium of the ''South Dakota'' class. Trades even more of Alabama's accuracy (and some of her handling) for long range hyper accurate secondaries. Currently preserved as a museum ship.

American Premium Tier IX Battleship, sister-ship of the ''Iowa'', and the last battleship commissioned into the US Navy during World War II. She is most famous for her role during the surrender of Japan on September 2, 1945, and is currently moored permanently in Hawaii as a museum ship, near the wreck of USS ''Arizona''.

* ComplacentGamingSyndrome: She's extremly popular in all kinds of tournirs.

The most decorated warship in American naval history, USS ''Enterprise'' makes her appearance as a premium tier 8 carrier. She carries huge amounts of aircraft in huge squadrons, almost enough to rival Midway's famously large squads, and packs a surprisingly potent punch with her AP bombs, atypical for American carriers.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: If your opposing team has an ''Enterprise'' in its lineup, the battle just got a lot harder.

USS ''Arizona'', destroyed at Pearl Harbor, is a unique ship in the game. A ''Pennsylvania'' class battleship, she represents the class before her tier-mate ''New Mexico,'' and has a differently modeled bow (correctly modeling the actual design; the ''Pennsylvania'' class had a bluff bow which was changed to a clipper bow in the ''New Mexico'' class). In game she has nearly unprecedented accuracy for her tier, but makes up for it with more sluggish turning, virtually no AA, and a longer reload time. ''Arizona'' was laid down in 1914 and commissioned in 1916, the second and last ship of her class. She saw no action in WWI, though she escorted Woodrow Wilson's ship to Europe for the Paris Peace Conference. She was involved in a minor scandal in 1924 when a group of sailors on leave in New York met a prostitute named Madeline Blair who was seeking passage to Hollywood and agreed to smuggle her aboard. When she was caught, the sailors involved were court-martialed and all the ship's officers were issued letters of reprimand.[[note]] One of these officers was future admiral Arleigh Burke, then an ensign; fortunately for him and the other officers, the letters were later revoked by a new CNO who felt the penalty unnecessarily harsh.[[/note]] After an extensive modernization in 1930, ''Arizona'' was sent to the Pacific. There, she provided disaster relief after the Long Beach earthquake of 1933 and was was used to film the Creator/JamesCagney movie ''Film/Here Comes the Navy''. In October 1941, she collided with USS ''Oklahoma'' during maneuvers in heavy fog, which required her to dry-dock in Pearl Harbor rather than proceeding to Washington for a planned refit. She was still there on 7 December 1941 when the planes of Kido Butai descended from the skies. ''Arizona'' was attacked by ten Kate torpedo bombers carrying modified 410mm armor-piercing shells. Several of the bombs missed and others inflicted only minor damage, but one punched through her deck by the second turret and detonated her magazines, triggering a cataclysmic explosion that annihilated the interior of the ship's bow, collapsed her turrets and superstructure, and killed 1,177 of her 1,512 crew. The wreck continued to burn for two days. Deemed unrepairable, she was instead extensively salvaged. Some of her guns were installed in shore defense batteries, while the guns from Turret 2 were given to USS ''Nevada''. Her bell hangs in a tower at the University of Arizona and other artifacts are on display in Phoenix. The wreck was declared a national memorial in the 1960s and is visited by millions every year.

Built from a ''Cleveland''-class cruiser hull, she's a fast ship, though still suffers from a limited hangar.

With a total of 24 ships built, the Essex-class was the most numerous class of fleet carriers during World War II in the United States Navy and also the most numerous class of fleet carriers ever built by any nation. USS ''Lexington'' (no relation to the in-game T8 carrier), USS ''Yorktown'' (no relation to the ''other'' USS ''Yorktown'' that sank at Midway), USS ''Intrepid'' and USS ''Hornet'' (again, no relation to the ''other'' USS Hornet that sank in the Battle of Santa Cruz) are the four ships still preserved today as museum ships out of the 24 built.

* MemeticBadAss: Not in PVP, where she has a reputation as a decidedly average competitor, but she absolutely breaks Operation Dynamo. The Sims boasts hilarious strong AA compared to everything else that can compete in the event, even without the defensive fire running. She backs this up with rapid fire guns. While normally this offset by having a lower Alpha, Sims can still one shot snellboats, the only seagoing enemy in the operation. Having a sims on your team in the event almost guarantees a five star win. Players have started joking that if she'd been at the real historical event she would have retaken France then and there.

American Tier VII Light Cruiser. Formerly an available premium ship, now selectively available at different times. ''Atlanta'' was the lead ship of her class of 8 light cruisers. These cruisers were designed to provide antiaircraft fire support for the rest of the fleet; to this end, they were armed with a main battery of 16 dual-purpose 128mm guns in 8 turrets, letting them hurl tremendous amounts of shellfire into the air very quickly. ''Atlanta'' was laid down in 1940 and commissioned on 24 December 1941, just over two weeks after Pearl Harbor had conclusively proved the need for her and her sisters. After shakedown, she was sent to the Pacific, arriving in April 1942. She fought at Midway and the Eastern Solomons and conducted convoy escort and fire support duties during the Guadalcanal campaign. In November 1942, ''Atlanta'' was part of a task force led by Admiral Dan Callaghan that was assigned to protect the supply convoys running to the island. While patrolling the waters off Guadalcanal in the early morning of 13 November 1942, the task force encountered a Japanese strike group on its way to bombard the Marine airfield on the island, and a confused melee ensued. ''Atlanta'' was illuminated by the destroyer ''Akatsuki'' and promptly tore into her with her guns; the destroyer was overwhelmed and sunk in short order. Unfortunately for ''Atlanta'', she was hit shortly thereafter by a torpedo from another Japanese destroyer, and then suffered nineteen 203mm shell hits from the cruiser ''San Francisco'', [[FriendOrFoe apparently in a case of mistaken identity]]. The shells tore up her superstructure and killed Admiral Norman Scott, who was using ''Atlanta'' as his flagship. Daylight found the cruiser still afloat, but in such bad shape that her captain soon yielded to the inevitable and ordered her to be scuttled. She sank in 400 ft (120 m) of water, becoming one of the many wrecks of Iron Bottom Sound. Her wreck was relocated in 1992 by Robert Ballard, the man who found the ''Titanic'' and ''Bismarck'', and has since been explored on several occasions by technical divers.

Germany's ''Deutschland'' class of heavy cruisers armed with smaller battleship guns sent more than a few waves through naval thinkers of the world. These started a race to develop "cruiser killers", something of a more honest halfway point between heavy cruisers and battleships than battlecruisers.[[note]]Though there is a lot of naval debate on weather cruiser killers count as battlecruisers or super heavy cruisers.[[/note]] While plenty of nations would draw designs and even start such vessels, only one class of cruiser killers would be completed, the American Alaska class. Unfortunately they arrived when there were few if any enemy cruisers to hunt. That said, they made good carrier escorts and shore bombardment platforms. They were seen as very maintenance intensive units to maintain and were decommissioned shortly after WWII and scrapped decades later.

The third and final Des Moines class cruiser completed, Salem is the last preserved heavy cruiser in existence. Completed in 1949 and decommissioned ten years later, Salem had a fairly leisurely service record as can be expected from a peacetime warship.

* BribingYourWayToVictory: Shes one of the few premiums that avert this trope, at least in a positive way. While Salem is indeed deadly, you can not buy her or buy resources that buy her. You simply have to grind to get it.

* HealThyself: Salem has a Royal Navy "super heal" unlike her sister. This allows her to withstand a lot of punishment, provided she can avoid citadel penetrations.

Tier IX premium American Cruiser. ''Vallejo'' is a paper ship that represents one of the preliminary designs bandied around by the US Navy prior to the ''Worcester''-class cruisers.

American Tier V Premium Battleship. ''Texas'' is a sister ship to the ''New York'', and the last dreadnought left in the world. She was laid down in 1911 and commissioned in 1914 and immediately hustled down to Mexico during the tension over the so-called "Tampico Incident". She spent the next few years in training until America officially declared war on German in 1917. She was dispatched to Britain in January 1918 to join the Grand Fleet as the 6th Battleship Squadron. She spent het war on convoy duty and saw no action. During the interwar period, ''Texas'' earned the distinction of being the first American battleship to deploy aircraft and screen a movie onboard. She spent several years with the Pacific Fleet before returning to the Atlantic and undergoing a major overhaul and refit from 1925-1926. When America entered WWII, she escorted convoys to Panama and South Africa and participated in Operations Torch and Overlord. During the invasion of Normandy, she was assigned to provide fire support at Omaha Beach and at one point closed to 3,000 yards from shore to smash the German positions. She continued to provide fire support off France until September 1944, when she returned to New York for refit before sailing to the Pacific. She bombarded shore targets at Iwo Jima and Okinawa, then brought American troops home after Japan's surrender. She was placed in reserve in June 1946 and then sold to her namesake state for preservation as a museum in 1948.

USS ''Arizona'', destroyed at Pearl Harbor, is a unique ship in the game. A ''Pennsylvania'' class battleship, she represents the class before her tier-mate ''New Mexico,'' and has a differently modeled bow (correctly modeling the actual design; the ''Pennsylvania'' class had a bluff bow which was changed to a clipper bow in the ''New Mexico'' class). In game she has nearly unprecedented accuracy for her tier, but makes up for it with more sluggish turning, virtually no aa, and a longer reload time.

American Premium Tier IX Battleship, sister-ship of the ''Iowa'', and the last battleship commissioned into the US Navy during World War II. She is most famous for her role during the surrender of Japan on September 2, 1945, and is currently moored permanently in Hawaii as a museum ship.

American Tier VII Light Cruiser. Formerly an available premium ship, now selectively available at different times. ''Atlanta'' was the lead ship of her class of 8 light cruisers. These cruisers were designed to provide antiaircraft fire support for the rest of the fleet; to this end, they were armed with a main battery of 16 dual-purpose 128mm guns in 8 turrets, letting them hurl tremendous amounts of shellfire into the air very quickly. ''Atlanta'' was laid down in 1940 and commissioned on 24 December 1941, just over two weeks after Pearl Harbor had conclusively proved the need for her and her sisters. After shakedown, she was sent to the Pacific, arriving in April 1942. She fought at Midway and the Eastern Solomons and conducted convoy escort and fire support duties during the Guadalcanal campaign. In November 1942, ''Atlanta'' was part of a task force led by Admiral Dan Callaghan that was assigned to protect the supply convoys running to the island. While patrolling the waters off Guadalcanal in the early morning of 13 November 1942, the task force encountered a Japanese strike group on its way to bombard the Marine airfield on the island, and a confused melee ensued. ''Atlanta'' was illuminated by the destroyer ''Akatsuki'' and promptly tore into her with her guns; the destroyer was overwhelmed and sunk in short order. Unfortunately for ''Atlanta'', she was hit shortly thereafter by a torpedo from another Japanese destroyer, and then [[FriendOrFoe suffered nineteen 203mm shell hits from the cruiser ''San Francisco'', apparently case of mistaken identity]]. The shells tore up her superstructure and killed Admiral Norman Scott, who was using ''Atlanta'' as his flagship. Daylight found the cruiser still afloat, but in such bad shape that her captain soon yielded to the inevitable and ordered her to be scuttled. She sank in 400 ft (120 m) of water, becoming one of the many wrecks of Iron Bottom Sound. Her wreck was relocated in 1992 by Robert Ballard, the man who found the ''Titanic'' and ''Bismarck'', and has since been explored on several occasions by technical divers.

* TheBusCameBack: ''Independence'' returned in the 13.0 update as an early access ship, alongside ''Yorktown'' and ''Essex'', and will be made available to research in the 13.2 update.

* CripplingOverspecialization: One of her hull configurations sacrifices two of her main battery guns for additional AA mounts. And considering this is a ''Farragut'' hull that already has 1 less gun thanks to modernization, this will be a recurring issue when no Aircraft carriers appear in matches and this hull is used.

American Tier VII Light Cruiser. Formerly an available premium ship, now selectively available at different times.
* AntiAir: Do not let the rating number for its AA stat fool you. The number is artificially low due to its somewhat lacking short and mid range AA guns. Those 16 dual-purpose 128mm guns will tear apart anything that gets within range in mere seconds. The Atlanta also has unlimited charges of the Defensive AA fire consumable, with the cooldown time being the only limitation.

American Tier VII Cruisers (yes, the Americans have a LOT of Tier VII Cruisers). An upgraded version of the ''Pensacola'' - she belonged to the ''Portland'' class, the class of heavy cruisers that set the pattern for every other American heavy cruiser with two triple eight-inch gun turrets in the front and one in the rear. She has very good firing arcs, able to fire all three turrets almost fully forward and still have a nice hard punch in the rear. She is, of course, infamous for two things: having delivered the components of the Fat Man atomic bomb to the island of Tinian for assembly and preparation, and being sunk by a Japanese submarine while returning to the Philippines from that mission. Her survivors spent five hellish days in the water before being spotted and rescued, by which time there were only 316 men left from the 800+ who had survived the sinking.

* GameBreaker: She's an Atlanta class that trades a gun turret on each side for smoke. this doesn't sound like much but considering she's only earnable by VERY skilled players who will know how to use it... It lets the ''Flint'' actually realize the massive damage potential of the huge broadside of the ''Atlanta'' class.

American promo premium Tier IX destroyer.

The lead ship of a series of destroyers whose main armament comprised four quadruple torpedo tubes placed along the both sides of the ship, in addition to dual-purpose 127 mm guns.

The third and final Des Moines class cruiser completed, Salem is the last preserved heavy cruiser in existence. Completed in 1949 and decommissioned ten years later, Salem had a fairly leisurely service record as can be expected from a peace time warship.

** With her unique upgrade instaled, she puts out fires and staunches floods very quickly, espcially when she has a captain specced for survival skills. This may not be that interesting, but in the tier X environment she finds herself in, where there are walls of torpedoes everywhere and the air is thick with high explosive spam, this can be very useful for staying in the match longer than other BBs.

* AntiAir: By far the best AA ship in tier 5, even beating out cruisers. She can reliably destroy tier 6 strike waves, and make a dent in tier 7's. Only the Saipan with her tier 9 planes stands a chance of coming away unscathed. The only mitigating factor is the AA guns short range, even fully kitted out they only reach to 5.1km.

* BribingYourWayToVictory: A relatively mild example compared to others. She has better turret placement, allowing her to not expose herself so much in a broadside, and the much upgraded AA suite compared to New York.

* MadeOfIron: Has an impressive 48% Torpedo belt damage reduction, comparable only to the Yamato. Her armor scheme (as with the actual ship) is impressively tough, with an internal belt and able to absorb a vicious hammering (even from ships well above her tier).

Another Tier VIII premium of the South Dakota class. Trades even more of Alabama's accuracy (and some of her handling) for long range hyper accurate secondaries. Currently preserved as a museum ship.

* ShortRangeGuyLongRangeGuy: With less sigma (meaning you have to get closer to make the guns work consistently) and an unrivaled secondary kit, she's the short ranged compared to Alabama.

American Premium Tier IX Battleship. ''Constellation'' is a hypothetical refit ''Lexington''-class battlecruiser. The ''Lexington''s were first ordered in 1911 in response to the development of the Japanese ''Kongō''-class battleships, but their construction was repeatedly delayed for political and economic reasons. They were finally laid down in 1920, but construction was halted in 1921 pending the results of the Washington Naval Conference. After the resulting naval treaty set strict limits on capital ship construction, ''Constellation'' and three of her sisters were scrapped to comply with its terms, while two others, ''Lexington'' and ''Saratoga'', were selected for conversion into aircraft carriers.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: She represents what the ''Lexington''-class battlecruisers would have looked like if they were finished as intended, complete with a theoretical early-war refit.

American Premium Tier IX Battleship, sister-ship of the Iowa, and the last battleship commissioned into the US Navy during World War II. She is most famous for her role during the surrender of Japan on September 2, 1945, and is currently moored permanently in Hawaii as a museum ship.

* MagicKnight: Obviously not literally but conceptually pretty close. Missouri is a battleship and plays like one most of the time. But she has access to radar, a staple of SquishyWizard cruisers. While its not quite as effective due to Missouri's bigger detection range than the cruisers who normally wield such a consumable, a ballsy Missouri with support can still ruin a lot of destroyers days, and is devastating to cruisers with their own smokescreens.

Georgia is an early design study of the Iowa class with six 18 inch guns. Available both for real money and for coal.

* DifficultButAwesome: Georgia has a lower alpha than Iowa or Missouri, due to having less guns, but can be far more effective when flanking due to being faster and slightly stealthier. Her gigantic citadel means that she's not as built for brawling as Germans, but you can use her secondaries to put extra pressure on a flank. Her speed boost is helpful for effective repositioning, but an early burn means that it won't be useable for a good chunk of the game. While Georgia can be played decently with the standard USN playstyle, a master can effectively utilize her as a mobile surgical strike ship.
* LightningBruiser: An early design of an Iowa armed with eighteen inch guns and a French cruiser speed boost. Georgia has the heaviest shells in the game and can travel at nearly ''forty knots.''
* ShortRangeGuyLongRangeGuy: Much like Massachusetts is to Alabama, though with it's contemporary Iowa-class battleships. Georgia is meant to get in close with it's devastatingly powerful 18 inch guns, which hit like tanks but miss almost as much as the infamously inaccurate Germans, as well as having the same secondary battery and improved heal recharge of Massachusetts. It's speed, even without the speed boost, also encourages flanking or straight up pushing, especially if there aren't any heavily armed targets or destroyers (though her secondaries can be quite effective in dealing with them).
* WeaksauceWeakness: Much like Iowa, she sacrifices armor (especially citadel armor) for her speed. If you can get a Georgia broadside on, it's a fairly easy task of punishing it.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Sort of. Georgia is an early design study of an Iowa class, a very much real battleship class. They ultimately decided to go with a battleship armed with more sixteen inch guns which finalized into the Iowa class. Similarly to the design relationship between Izumo and Yamato, if Georgia's design had been built she would have been called Iowa.

Tier IX American Premium Battleship. A unique hybrid between a battleship and an aircraft carrier, Project 1058.1 was a design, proposed to USSR by an american company ''Gibbs and Cox''.

American Tier X Battleship, sister ship to Montana

Built from a Baltimore-class cruiser hull. Like the Independence, she's a fast ship and suffers from a similarly limited hangar. This time, however, she balances it out by having a complement of some of the best late-war and post-World War II aircraft available for the USN. Now a tier 8 premium, formerly tier 7 before CV rework.
* QuantityVsQuality: Has the smallest air wing of any tier eight aircraft carrier but the planes are tier 10. She especially has this relationship versus the Kaga, which has enormous squadrons of tier six aircraft.
* DifficultButAwesome: Saipan is not a beginner-friendly carrier in any sense of the word; with her small squadron size, shallow reserves, and painfully long aircraft regeneration time, she will harshly punish any mistakes made and has trouble recovering losses. On the other hand, her Tier 10 aircraft will make mincemeat out of surface targets.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: Only a Light Carrier instead of a Fleet Carrier unlike most carriers at her matchmaking spread, but carries deadly tier 10 aircraft.
* PointDefenseless: Saipan has no secondaries and the lack of dual purpose guns also means she has no long range AA at all. Saipan captains are advised to keep moving to avoid attacks and defend the CV with the fighter consumable and drop fighters.

** Doubly so after the CV rework. Enterprise can also be used as loose synonym for "industry." ''Enterprise'' replenishes planes at an unusually high rate, in other words she has good industry.
* QuantityVsQuality: Similar to the ''Kaga'', the Enterprise boasts enormous squadrons of aircraft but the aircraft themselves are lower-tier than the ship itself. She has this relationship with the ''Saipan'', which features low numbers of powerful higher-tier aircraft. After the CV rework, however, Enterprise tends to be superior to both with better quality planes than Kaga, and higher quantity than Saipan.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: If your opposing team has an Enterprise in its lineup, the battle just got a lot harder.
* TheDreaded: her AP bomb-carrying Dive Bombers can ''erase'' enemy battlehips in a single pass.

The ''Bogue'' class was the second most numerous class of escort carrier, beginning with U.S.S. ''Bogue'' (AVG/ACV/CVE-9). Preceded by experimental U.S.S. ''Long Island'' and two four-unit classes, forty-one ships of the class were built, half of which were Lend-Leased to the United Kingdom as the ''Ameer'' class.

Sister ship to the ''New York'', and the last dreadnought left in the world.

American Premium Tier VIII Battleship. A ''South Dakota''-class battleships, and currently a museum berthed in Mobile, Alabama. Initially only available as a reward for supertesters, it's now available in the tech tree/premium shop.

USS ''Lexington'' was one of the US Navy's first fleet carriers. She and her sister ship ''Saratoga'' were converted from a pair of battlecruiser hulls that would otherwise have had to be scrapped to comply with the requirements of the Washington Naval Treaty. This gave them unusually high durability for carriers. ''Lexington'' was laid down in 1921 and commissioned in 1927. After her shakedown, she transferred to the Pacific, where she would spend her entire career. Along with ''Saratoga'', she spent much of the interwar period developing and refining carrier tactics in annual fleet exercises. On 7 December 1941, she was ferrying Vindicator dive bombers to Midway when she learned of the attack on Pearl. Her mission was canceled and she was ordered to hunt for the Japanese carriers, though she didn't find them (probably for the best, as six against one is bad odds no matter how you cut it). ''Lexington'' then participated in several of the US Navy's early actions in the war, including the attempted relief of Wake Island and the raids on Rabaul and Lae-Salamaua. She was sunk at the Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942 after absorbing two torpedo and two bomb hits from Japanese aircraft, along with further damage from several near misses. Her wreck lies in 3000 meters of water in the Coral Sea, 800km from the Australian coast.

!Independence
Built from a Cleveland-class cruiser hull, she's a fast ship, though still suffers from a limited hangar.
* PutOnABus: Removed following the 8.0 CV rework, with no plans to return.
!Essex
With a total of 24 ships built, the Essex-class is the most numerous class of fleet carriers during World War II in the United States Navy and also the most numerous class of fleet carriers ever built by any nation. USS ''Lexington'' (no relation to the in-game T8 carrier), USS ''Yorktown'' (no relation to the ''other'' USS Yorktown that sank at Midway), USS ''Interprid'' and USS ''Hornet'' (again, no relation to the ''other'' USS Hornet that sank in the Battle of Santa Cruz) are the four ships still preserved today as museum ships out of the 24 built.
* PutOnABus: Removed following the 8.0 CV rework, with no plans to return.

The US Navy was one of the two factions to be introduced on the game's launch, with all four main lines available. In June 2018 the line of Cruisers was split into heavy and light cruisers. In October 2020, an alternative line of Battleships was released.

Being one of the two first tech trees in the game, US ships serve as a reference point, that all other factions deviate from. They have [[TheGenericGuy no real distinctive traits]], but also [[JackOfAllStats no real weaknesses]]. Their only truly strong area is good AA defence, thanks to their 5"/38-calibre dual-purpose gun, that was so good it was mounted on everything from auxiliary ships to aircraft carriers. It [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter doesn't mean]] that USN ships are the best in AA, mind you. They are good team players, though, with many of their ships having Defensive AA Fire and cruisers mounting radars.

Tier VI American Submarine. The ''Cachalot''-class was a pair of submarines built under the tonnage limits of the London Naval Treaty. Their relatively small size limited their usefulness, and they saw little use in WWII, being quickly relegated to training duties.

Tier X American Submarine. The ''Balao''-class were a class of American fleet submarines built from 1942-1946. The design turned out to be successful, and a total of 120 units were built, making it the most numerous class of submarines in the US Navy. Nine of them were lost in WWII, and five more in the following years. As of 2022, the last boat of the class is still in commission in the Taiwanese Navy, as ROCS ''Hai Pao''.

USN Cruisers are all about the guns, both against ships and planes. Their 6-inch (155mm) guns of the light cruisers can rain shells down on targets, and the 8-inch (203mm) guns of the heavies pack a serious punch with both HE and AP, although they may find difficulty in striking evasive targets due to slower shell speeds. At higher tiers, the AA suites are some of the most fearsome in the game and can be made even more powerful by activating Defensive Fire. Torpedoes are an afterthought at best. Only the ''Phoenix'', ''Omaha'', and premium ''Atlanta'' have torpedoes and you have to get to uncomfortably short ranges to use them.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: ''Phoenix'' is criticized as being little more than a downgraded version of ''Omaha.'' Moving ''Omaha'' into tier IV could have cleared up Tier V for the ''Brooklyn'' class light cruiser, which set the pattern for all subsequent US Navy cruisers, light or heavy. The problem with this is that ''Brooklyn'' with a '''15-gun broadside'' would be [[GameBreaker ridiculously broken]] at that tier, which no doubt is why ''Phoenix'' was chosen for the tech tree.

Tier V American Cruiser. The fully-developed version of the Phoenix, with turrets forward and aft. The ''Omaha'' class was the last American "broadside cruiser," with guns mounted in casemates on the hull. It was also only the second class of light cruiser built as such for the US Navy. In game, it shares with its tier predecessor the attributes of being a light, fast scout cruiser with almost no armor. However, the ''Omaha's'' forward turret and improved lines of fire give it 4 guns over its entire forward arc and 6 dead forward.

* AntiAir: While its far from unusual for cruisers in the US line to have great AA, Worcester was literally unrivaled in the game. Even without speccing any skill points into AA, a Worcester can quite literally vaporize an entire enemy bomber wave before they get any bombs off and still is a very undesirable target with it off.

Tier VI (formerly Tier VII) American Cruiser of Heavy Cruisers line. Pensacola is the first USN Heavy Cruiser in the game, and the first of the so-called "Treaty Cruisers" built under the compliance of the Washington Naval Treaty.

Tier IV American Battleship. The ''Wyoming'' class battleships were built in 1910 (''Wyoming'') and 1912 (''Arkansas''). Adding two additional turrets and substantial displacement, the class was ''slightly'' faster than ''South Carolina,'' reaching the same 21-knot standard as their predecessors (and all successors through 1920, the only faster USN battleships were the four 1930s designs, which were except ''Iowa'' built to a 28-knot standard), the ''Delaware'' and ''Florida'' classes. In-game they represent the pattern of USN battleships that will be followed in subsequent vessels through Tier VII, being slow, not-very-maneuverable, but extremely powerful, with six 11in/304mm guns hurling truly massive shells downrange.

Tier VII American Battleship. She's the last of the "standard-type" dreadnought battleships built in real life.

* AdaptationalWimp: Vermont is acually base on the ''weakest'' design of Tillman Maximum Battleship plan - plan 1. For reference, the actual final plan, IV-2, called for an even more excessive ''15'' 18-inch guns.
* AlphaStrike: The optimal way to play this ship; because of the 40 second reload you'll never win in a dpm battle so you need to delete enemy ships with the first salvo before they get a chance to fire back or get into cover.

* LightningBruiser: They are one of the faster battleships, outrunned only by French, and yet they all have 406mm guns and servisable armor.

Tier VIII American Battleship of the Fast Battleships line. She's the first of the new generation "fast battleships". Currently preserved as a museum ship in her namesake state.
* AntiAir: While still having the same Bofors and Oerlikons seen in its predecessors, the North Carolina gains access to the more powerful 5in dual purpose gun, which has a much longer range and harder hitting power than the older version on the ''New Mexico'' and ''Colorado''.

Tier X American Battleship of Fast Battleships line. She's the only paper design in the main line - Montanas were ordered and authorized, but continually delayed as the war pushed more and more carrier construction. The materials set aside for them was eventually put to use in building the ''Midway'' class aircraft carriers instead.
* BoringButPractical: One of the first tow tier ten battleships in the game and even then the less interesting of the two. Montana's only real gimmicks are her super heavy shells. However she has strengths in many areas but no real glaring weaknesses.
** With her unique upgrade instaled, she puts out fires and staunches floods very quickly, espcially when a surviability build for captain skills is used. This may not be that interesting, but in the tier X envirnment she finds herself in where walls of torpedoes and the air is thick with high explosive spam, this can be very useful for staying in the match longer than other BB's.
* LightningBruiser: Three knots slower than the Iowa class, but actually possessing ''greater'' firepower. Unlike the Iowa-class they were designed to withstand their own 16 inch gun firepower.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: These ships were delayed repeatedly, their material diverted to build aircraft carriers, and eventually cancelled at the end of World War II without a single keel being laid.

* ThemeNaming: Fleet carriers are named for famous battles in American history (with the exception of ''Franklin D. Roosevelt''). Light/escort carriers are named after previous ships, bodies of water, even battles (USS ''Casablanca'' and ''Guadalcanal''). The experimental U.S.S. ''Langley'' was named after aviation pioneer and Archivist of the Smithsonian Institution Samuel P. Langley, as part of a U.S. Government attempt to claim credit for the invention of the airplane. The light carrier U.S.S. ''Wright'' was later named acknowledging the inventors who won the race to invent the airplane.

USS ''Lexington'' was one of the US Navy's first fleet carriers. She and her sister ship ''Saratoga'' were converted from a pair of battlecruiser hulls that would otherwise have had to be scrapped to comply with the requirements of the Washington Naval Treaty. This gave them unusually high durability for carriers. ''Lexington'' was laid down in 1921 and commissioned in 1927. After her shakedown, she transferred to the Pacific, where she would spend her entire crew. Along with ''Saratoga'', she spent much of the interwar period developing and refining carrier tactics in annual fleet exercises. On 7 December 1941, she was ferrying Vindicator dive bombers to Midway when she learned of the attack on Pearl. Her mission was canceled and she was ordered to hunt for the Japanese carriers, though she didn't find them (probably for the best, as six against one is bad odds no matter how you cut it). ''Lexington'' then participated in several of the US Navy's early actions in the war, including the attempted relief of Wake Island and the raids on Rabaul and Lae-Salamaua. She was sunk at the Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942 after absorbing two torpedo and two bomb hits from Japanese aircraft, along with further damage from several near misses. Her wreck lies in 3000 meters of water in the Coral Sea, 800km from the Australian coast.

* EnemyDetectingRadar: One of three Premium Cruisers at Tier VII to mount radar. Unlike the one used by the ''Atlanta'' and ''Belfast'', she uses a special, watered-down version of the Tier X radar consumable.[[note]] The radar in question lasts 25 seconds (instead of the 40 seconds for Tier X radar) and has the same range of 9.9 km. [[/note]]
* GlassCannon: Downplayed. She's just as fast as ''New Orleans,'' with arguably better armor-piercing shells, at the cost of slower-loading guns and less armor. Not battleship heavy - anything shooting bigger than the ''Dunkerque'''s 13" guns is a guaranteed citadel penetration from the front - but heavy enough to reject most cruiser hits from the front.

* GameBreaker: She's an Atlanta class that trades a gun turret on each side for smoke. this doesn't sound like much but considering she's only earnable by VERY skilled players who will know how to use it... It lets the Flint actually realize the massive damage potential of the huge broadside of the Atlanta class.
** Downplayed trope after the commander skill rework. She did not receive the range increase that Atlanta did, and lost several important skills in the rework that she used to rely on.

American promo premium Tier VIII cruiser. A heavy cruiser design created under Project CA-B. The ship outmatched the Baltimore-class ships in terms of size and power, and also carried torpedo armament.

* SmokeOut: Unusual for an American cruiser, and especially a heavy cruiser is her smokescreen. It is the same found on American destroyers, and comfortably allows her to fire from concealment.

* BribingYourWayToVictory: Not so much the ship itself, as its very similar to the tech tree Iowa, but more for the fact that without any sales or discounts, she costs over $100. Yes, for a single ship.

* NoPronunciationGuide: Subverted one update after Worcester's introduction where her special upgrade mission is literally titled "It's Pronounced Wooster".

* TierInducedScrappy: The baseline ''Phoenix'' is worse in every particular than the fully-upgraded ''St. Louis.'' Its armor is worse, it's easier to eat a citadel hit, and the player drops back from fourteen guns in a configuration that allows them to fire up to nine on a broadside to a three-gun broadside only partially compensated by the presence of DifficultButAwesome torpedoes. The design is largely vindicated by the time the C hull is purchased, giving the player access to four additional guns firing much better [=WW2=]-era shells, a faster net rate of fire, and triple torpedoes in place of the earlier doubles. Having the ability to fire before being detected, especially with camouflage applied, also really helps.

* TierInducedScrappy: Also nicknamed the "Penancecola" because she's said to be penance for all the evil things her skippers did at tier VI with the ''Cleveland.''
** However being moved to tier VI has helped with this immensely because her ten gun 8inch broadside is far more noticeable.

Tier VII American Cruiser of Light Cruisers line. USS ''Helena'' is a ''St. Louis'' (no not that one)class light cruiser, an improved version of the previous ''Brooklyn'' class. ''Helena'' was present at and survived the Pearl Harbor raid despite being confused for a primary target due to being berthed in the space normally occupied by ''Pennsylvania'' on Battleship Row. She was present at the sinking of USS ''Wasp'', where she helped rescue survivors. ''Helena'' participated in the battle of Battle of Cape Esperance and helped sink the cruiser ''Furutaka'' and the destroyer ''Fubuki'' (yes the ones in the game). She would later also fight at the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal but it's unknown what damage she caused due to the chaotic nature of the conflict. She was finally sunk after being torpedoed while engaging Japanese destroyers during the Battle of Kula Gulf.

Tier VII American Cruiser of Light Cruisers line. USS ''Helena'' is a ''St. Louis'' (no not [[NamesTheSame that one]])class light cruiser, an improved version of the previous ''Brooklyn'' class. ''Helena'' was present at and survived the Pearl Harbor raid despite being confused for a primary target due to being berthed in the space normally occupied by ''Pennsylvania'' on Battleship Row. She was present at the sinking of USS ''Wasp'', where she helped rescue survivors. ''Helena'' participated in the battle of Battle of Cape Esperance and helped sink the cruiser ''Furutaka'' and the destroyer ''Fubuki'' (yes the ones in the game). She would later also fight at the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal but it's unknown what damage she caused due to the chaotic nature of the conflict. She was finally sunk after being torpedoed while engaging Japanese destroyers during the Battle of Kula Gulf.

* [[LastOfHisKind Last Of Her Kind]]: The last dreadnought left in the world, and something often brought up when talking about her. Several times the real vessel has come close to being permanently lost to damage.

* NamesTheSame: The namesake of [[Franchise/StarTrek the Starship]] ''[[Franchise/StarTrek Enterprise]].'' Gene Roddenberry served in World War II and named his ship after the most famous ship of the entire war.

* RareVehicles: Unlike the other USN destroyers, she's so far the only one to qualify under this, due to being a blueprint design that was never built.

* MightyGlacier: UpToEleven. In terms of mass, ''Vermont'' has the heaviest broadside in the game, and is only the 3rd ship to break the 100K HP mark after ''Grosser Kurfurst'' and ''Kremlin''; the armor's not bad too. Sadly, the reload is slow and the ship itself moves about as fast as continental drift.

US Navy was one of the two factions to be introduced on the game's launch, with all four main lines. In June 2018 line of Cruisers was split. In October 2020 alternative line of Battleships was released.

Being one of two first tech trees in the game, US ships serve as a reference point, that all other factions deviate from. They has [[TheGenericGuy no real distinctive traits]], but also [[JackOfAllStats no real weaknessess]]. Their only truly strong area is good AA defence, thanks to 5"/38-calibre dual-purpose gun, that was so good, it was mounted on everything from auxiliary ships to aircraft carriers. It [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter doesn't mean]] that USN ships are the best in AA, mind you. They are good team players, though, with many of their ships having Defensive AA Fire and cruisers mounting radars.

Like it's the case for the most other classes, American submarines upstage their counterparts in versatility. They has more HP, and has aft-facing torpedo tubes, that allow them to better fight in close quarters - as far as it's possible for submarines, at least. They can temporarily boost their maneuverability with Enhanced Rudder Gears, that allow them to dive and ascend faster.

Tier VI American Submarine. Cachalot-class was a pair of submarines, built under the tonnage limits of the London Naval Treaty. Their relatively small size limited their usefulness, and they saw little use in WWII, being quickly relegated to training duties.

Tier VIII American Submarine. Balao-class submarines were an important improvement over past designs, boasting 21 knots of speed, that allowed them to operate alongside standard-type battleships. Six boats of the class were completed, all of which survived the war.

Tier X American Submarine. Balao-class was a class of submarines, built in 1942-1946. The design turned out to be successful, and total of 120 units were built, making it the most numerous class of submarines in the US Navy. Nine of them were lost in the WWII, and five more in following years. As of 2022, the last boat of the class is still in commission in the Taiwanese Navy, as ROCS ''Hai Pao''.

Tier III American Destroyer. One of the massively produced destroyers in the U.S. Navy featuring flush-deck design. The key difference from the preceding ''Caldwell'' class was the significantly increased propulsion power, resulting in higher speeds and better maneuverability.

Tier VII American Destroyer. Developed from the Farragut class, Mahan carried a more powerful torpedo armament. At the beginning of World War II, these destroyers were modernized with several automatic AA guns to fight enemy aircraft more efficiently.

Tier IX American Destroyer. Fletcher was the lead ship of the most numerous series of destroyers ever produced. They proved to be highly successful ships, combining high speed with efficient AA defenses, quick-firing artillery, and powerful torpedo armament. Captain Arleigh Burke made his name commanding a ship of this class; his name would later grace the US Navy's second class of warship equipped with the Aegis weapon system.

Tier X American Destroyer. Developed from the Fletcher class, Gearing was the largest destroyer built by the U.S. Navy during World War II. The ship was superior in firepower to all foreign counterparts, owing to new dual-purpose twin mounts with a very high rate of fire. Numerous automatic AA guns ensured a respective level of efficiency for her AA defenses.
* JackOfAllStats: While a bit slower and less maneuverable than Fletcher, she has amazing firepower with very long reaching torpedoes (16.5KM). If you take Swift Fish skill, and Torpedo Tubes Mod 1,you can get them up to nearly 80 knots! Like Fletcher, Gearing is a gunboat destroyer that in some ways is also a better torpedo boat than the Japanese destroyers.
* MoreDakka: Gets an extra gun compared to Fletcher, and they reload in only 3 seconds. With the relevant equipment and skills, this can get down to under 2.5 seconds! While she no longer holds the crown for dakka at tier 10 for destroyers, she remains a potent threat.

USN Cruisers are all about the guns, both against ships and planes. Their 6-inch (155mm) guns of the light cruisers can rain shells down on targets, and the 8-inch (203mm) guns of the heavies pack a serious punch with both HE and AP, although they may find difficulty in striking evasive targets due to slower shell speeds. At higher tiers, the AA suites are some of the most fearsome in the game and can be made even more powerful by activating Defensive Fire. Torpedoes are an afterthought at best: Only the ''Phoenix'', ''Omaha'', and premium ''Atlanta'' have torpedoes and you have to get to uncomfortably short ranges to use them.
* BoringButPractical: US Navy cruisers, have excellent guns that can lay down punishing volumes of fire, but (except for ''Phoenix'' and ''Omaha'') they lack a means to inflict a crushing blow against enemies who get too close.

Tier I American Cruiser. The Erie-class patrol gunboats were designed in 1932 and built prior to World War II as small multipurpose ships primarily intended to guard the Panama Canal but also capable of performing a wide range of tasks, from artillery support to convoy protection. The ships were built [[RulesLawyer just outside of treaty restrictions]] and were well-armored and well-armed for their size, being essentially budget light cruisers. They were the first in the U.S. Navy to receive automatic AA guns.

Tier II American Cruiser. The 3 ships of the ''Chester'' Class were ordered by the U.S. Navy in 1904 and completed in 1908. They were developed to test new steam turbine propulsion and radio technology. Of the 3 ships, the USS ''Birmingham'', ''Chester'', and ''Salem''. ''Birmingham'' had a conventional propulsion system, ''Chester'' received a Parsons Steam turbine, and ''Salem'' was fitted with reciprocating machinery. The ships weren't intended to fight ships larger than destroyers, so they had vertical (short range weapon) protection, and was armed with 3 inch guns (76mm). They were later up-gunned to 5 inch (127 mm) weapons when foreign navies commissioned similar ships. In 1928 ''Chester'' was renamed ''York'' to free the name for a more modern cruiser that complied with the Washington Treaty. They remained the only turbine cruisers in the U.S. Navy for a long time. All 3 were scrapped in 1930.

Tier III American Cruiser. A typical "big" armored cruiser of the pre-dreadnought era. The ship was armed with numerous artillery, whose rate of fire was quite rapid for her time, and an armor belt protecting the propulsion, but featured only moderate speed. As part of three armored cruisers authorized to be constructed in the early 1900s, the USS ''St. Louis'' (C-20) was initially constructed as an improved version of the ''Columbia''-class cruiser. Due to this mishmash of improvements deviated from initial design decisions, the ''St. Louis''-class cruisers were considered as semi-armored cruisers, in between the class of protected cruisers and armored cruisers. But at the time, the Register of Ships of the US Navy listed them as "protected cruisers." The ''St. Louis''-class cruisers were decommissioned in early 1920s and sold for scrap in 1930 as per the London Naval Treaty.

* AdaptationalBadass: The ''St. Louis''-class cruisers served very undistinguished careers - painfully obsolescent on commissioning, they were generally relegated to training duties during service, with one (USS ''Milwaukee'') suffering the ignominious fate of fatally grounding herself while trying to rescue a submarine. In the game, they're probably the most powerful individual ship at Tier 3.
* BlingOfWar: ''St. Louis''-A comes with distinct bronze-like exterior paint on upper half of the ship, which is typical of early-tier USN ships in the game. The white-and-buff paint scheme was the US' post-Spanish-American War scheme, and it largely disappeared after the cruise of the Great White Fleet. The B upgrade, which represents the World War I configuration of the ship, is the haze gray color that dominated USN warship paint after 1910.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: One of the most powerful early-game cruisers, the St. Louis is one of the few cruisers that is capable of going toe-to-toe with many battleships, and can skillfully handled dish out many times more damage than it has hit points.

** More specifically, a quick glance at the Armor Layout in port shows the exact nature of the St. Louis durability. The citadel it self sits extremely low, mostly under the waterline. The part that's above the water, is either flat topped, or armored and angled inward. On top of the citadel is a layer of casemate armor, acting as "turtleback" armor for the citadel. At the water line is 102mm thick casemate armor, meaning there is effectively over 175mm thick armor for shots fired at the citadel from the sides, in a tier where most guns are still well below 150mm or less, with low shell velocity/penetration. Battleship caliber guns on the other hand, tend to have their shots sail right over top the citadel, through the thinner casemate armor.

* MoreDakka: Primary reason she's known for; the ship is practically made of ''guns''.

Tier IV American Cruiser. The Phoenix is based off of a [[http://www.shipscribe.com/styles/S-584/images/s-file/s584093c.htm 1916 scout cruiser proposal]] that was planned as the successor to the ''Chester''-class. Their comparatively high speed was to allow them to act as a scout for battleship fleets, as well as destroyer pack leaders, with armaments that can fend off hostile destroyer it might encounter. In contrast to most cruisers of her time, the cruiser's artillery was placed in open mounts. Their comparatively high cost, as much as four destroyers, resulted in Congress refusing to allocate money for their construction, fearing that they would become obsolete before construction would finish. The First World War proved the viability of a scout cruiser design and resulted in the plans being radically redesigned into the ''Omaha''-class.

* ThemeNaming: The ''Phoenix'' is originally an unnamed proposal. Following the American's tradition to name their cruisers after cities, ''Wargaming'' named her after the capital of Arizona. While normally major cities, such as capitals and major centers of commerce, lent their names to heavy cruisers, a few light cruisers did end up with the names of important cities, such as USS ''Brooklyn'', USS ''Duluth'' and USS ''Atlanta.''
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: ''Phoenix'' is criticized as being little more than a downgraded version of ''Omaha.'' Moving ''Omaha'' into tier IV could have cleared up Tier V for the ''Brooklyn'' class light cruiser, which set the pattern for all subsequent US Navy cruisers, light or heavy. The problem with this is that ''Brookyn'' with a '''15-gun broadside'' would be [[GameBreaker ridiculously broken]] at that tier, which no doubt is why ''Phoenix'' was chosen for the tech tree.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: With ''Phoenix''. Understandable since ''Phoenix'' was a design study during ''Omaha'''s development.

Tier VI American Cruiser of Light Cruisers line. A version of a small light cruiser design, the development of which preceded the creation of Helena-class cruisers. She had the features characteristic of most subsequent ships of this U.S. Navy type: moderate speed, the absence of torpedo armament, and the availability of dual-purpose guns complementing the 152 mm main battery mounted in the turrets.

Tier VII American Cruiser of Light Cruisers line. USS ''Helena'' is a St. Louis (no not [[NamesTheSame that one]])class light cruiser, an improved version of the previous Brooklyn class. Helena was present and survived the Pearl Harbor raid despite being confused for a primary target do to being berthed in battleship row in a space normally occupied by ''Pennsylvania''. She was present at the sinking of USS ''Wasp'' where she helped rescue survivors. ''Helena'' participated in the battle of Battle of Cape Esperance and help sink the cruiser ''Furutaka'' and the destroyer ''Fubuki'' (yes the ones in the game). She would later also fight at the naval battle of Guadalcanal but its unknown what damage she caused due to the chaotic nature of the conflict. She was finally sunk after being torpedoed while engaging Japanese destroyers during the battle of Kula Gulf.

Tier VIII (formerly Tier VI) American Cruiser of Light Cruisers line. She is the first US Navy cruiser to be built completely free from any Naval Treaty restrictions. As of update 0.7.6, she's part of the new USN CL sub-branch, and has been buffed significantly.

* KillItWithFire: Cleveland's potent HE shells combined with her fast-firing 6" guns can set pretty much ''anything'' ablaze.

* PowerUpLetdown: She's is almost in all regards a worse version of the Cleveland with more Hp and a heal. She has a large vulnerable and poorly armored (even by light cruiser standards) citadel and poor firing angles. The two bonuses are completely negated by this citadel vulnerability as the Seattle has a reputation for getting devastating striked. Its made several people question wonder why Wargaming chose this fictional class rather than the Real Fargo class. Even though the Fargos where essentially slightly improved Clevelands, having a Cleveland at t9 with a heal slapped on is seen by most as a major improvement over the Seattle.

A post war air defense cruiser, notably one of the last light cruiser designs in the world.
* AntiAir: While its far from unusual for cruisers in the US line to have great AA, Worcester was literally unrivaled in the game. Even without specing any skill points into AA, a Worcester can quite literally vaporize an entire enemy bomber wave before they get any bombs off and still is a very undesirable target with it off.

* KillItWithFire: Essentially one of best fire starter in the game with its rapid fire twelve guns. The rework to the IFHE skill made her choose between fire chance and penetration, however.

** However being moved to tier VI has helped with this immensely because her ten gun 8inch broadside so far more noticeable.

* LightningBruiser: Compared to her predecessor the ''Pensacola'', she has a far better armor protection and layout, allowing her to tank enemy shells better.

* TookALevelInBadass: Technically she actually became slightly weaker after the American cruiser split but she was also moved to tier 8. She retains her super heavy shells, her reload (especially now that Charles Martel reload was nerfed from 10s to 12s), her AA, ''and' stealth to the surprise of many, making her actually a very solid performer where the former tier 9 Baltimore was considered to be "meh" even after her buffs.

* AntiAir: While all US cruisers from Cleveland up are pretty good at the AA role, Des Moines takes the cake. She has the majority of her DPS able to fire at the edge of her range. While the crown has shifted to Worcester, Des Moines remains a very potent AA vessel.
* MoreDakka: A feature representing the Des Moines' use of auto-loading assistance for the main guns, translated in game into a mere five-second reload time for her nine 203mm guns, giving her the highest rate of fire for heavy cruisers at Tier X.
* EnemyDetectingRadar: The most powerful radar on the US line, lasting a 40 seconds and a range of 10km. For a ship that can fire 9 shells every 5 seconds, this is an eternity to an enemy destroyer.

Main line of USN battleships are quintessential {{Mighty Glacier}}s of the game. They all pack impressive main batteries, one of the srongest on their respective Tiers, but suffer from abysmal speed and weak secondaries. Their AA defence, however, is second-best among battleships, losing only to USSR. Current "main line" was actually added far later than fast battleships, being a WhatIf scenario, of if said concept was never picked up. Superdreadnoughts are made to be more in-line with Tier III-VII ships, building on their gameplay.

* AlphaStrike: This line, starting from Tier VIII ''Kansas'', is all about hammering in devastating strikes of 12 guns and then hiding from retaliation… If there's anything left to hide from. 40 seconds reload means that it's impossible for these ships to win a DPM battle, so the player has to place their broadsides carefully.
* MightyGlacier: The entire line has top speed no more than 23 knots, but their guns pack a punch. ''Vermont's'' speed is actually slightly nerfed, when compared with actual design she's based on, but even without said nerf she would have had 25 knots top speed.

Tier III American Battleship. South Carolina-class battleships, also known as the Michigan class, were built during the first decade of the twentieth century for the United States Navy. They were the first American dreadnoughts—powerful warships whose capabilities far outstripped those of the world's older battleships. Due to limited dimensions, the ship carried relatively weak armament and had a low speed. Battleships of her class were the first to receive superfiring turrets. This meant she could fire a full broadside with all main battery guns. However, in balancing the congressionally mandated limits to displacement and the inherent design trade-offs between armament, armor, and propulsion, the South Carolina class' speed was severely limited—an ultimately fatal disadvantage that severely limited their utility in a conflict. This relegated them to serving with older, obsolete battleships during the First World War. Thereafter, both South Carolinas were scrapped with the signing of the Washington Naval Treaty.

Tier IV American Battleship. The ''Wyoming'' class battleships were built in 1910 (''Wyoming'') and 1912 (''Arkansas''). Adding two additional turrets and substantial displacement, the class was ''slightly'' faster than ''South Carolina,'' reaching the same 21-knot standard as their predecessors (and all successors through 1920, the only faster USN battleships were the four 1930s designs, which were except Iowa built to a 28-knot standard), the ''Delaware'' and ''Florida'' classes. In-game they represent the pattern of USN battleships that will be followed in subsequent vessels through Tier VII, being slow, not-very-maneuverable, but extremely powerful, with six 11in/304mm guns hurling truly massive shells downrange.

* CompositeCharacter: The B hull is more in line with her sister-ship, the Arkansas, despite the latter already being in the game.

* ShortRangeGuyLongRangeGuy: After 6.3, Became the long range compared to Texas.

Tier VIII American Battleship of Superdreadnoughts line.
A theoretical 'superdreadnought', Kansas continues the trend set by Colorado, though with two knots of speed over Colorado's maximum.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Gives up nearly every stat in comparison to the North Carolina in order to gain an extra gun turret.
* MightyGlacier: Only slightly faster than Colorado, but hits even harder, due to having one more gun per turret.
* PowerfulButInaccurate: Her extra gun turret gives her a lot of firepower, but sufferers from ppor dispersion. While slightly buffed over her initial release and the Deadeye skill, most still consider the North Carolina the better option.

Tier IX American Battleship of Superdreadnoughts line.
* MightyGlacier: She's just as slow as Kansas, with the same armament to boot. All she gets is a kilometer boost in her secondary range.

Tier X American Battleship of Superdreadnoughts line. The culmination of dreadnought design, wielding ''[[{{BFG}} 12 x 457mm guns]]'' (for reference, Georgia has 6, Ohio and Thunderer have 8, Kremlin, Yamato, and Musashi have 9).

* ATeamFiring: Has the worst dispersion values among it's contemporaries.
* {{BFG}}: 18'' guns.
* GlassCannon: Relative to fellow "Super-Heavy" Battleships, Grosser Kurfurst and Kremlin. Whereas the former is meant to be a close-in brawler with piles of secondary guns and the latter is just meant to be flagrantly overpowered, the Vermont is a alpha-striking sledgehammer that throws enough alpha damage to flatten anything it manages to hit, but has an over-large hitbox and relatively low armor that renders it much less durable than it's high health would imply.
* MightyGlacier: UpToEleven. In terms of mass has the heaviest Broadside in the game, and is only the 3rd ship to break the 100k hp mark after Grosser Kurfurst and Kremlin; the armor's not bad too. Sadly, the reload is slow and the ship itself moves as fast as Continental Drift.

Tier VIII American Battleship of Fast Battleships line. She's the first of the new generation "fast battleships". Currently preserved as a museum ship.
* AntiAir: While still having the same Bofors and Oerlikons seen in its predecessors, the North Carolina gains access to the more powerful 5in dual purpose gun, which has a much longer range and harder hitting power than the older version on the New Mexico and Colorado.

Tier IX American Battleship of Fast Battleships line. Iowa class is the first US Navy battleship built completely free of any Naval Treaty restrictions.
* LightningBruiser: While all USN fast battleships are considered this by default, the Iowa is special in that she's the fastest battleship, both in RealLife and in-game, at a whopping ''33 knots''. While other battleships can go faster with engine boost consumable, this remains the highest base speed.

Tier IV American Aircraft Carrier. [[WhereItAllBegan The first U.S. Navy aircraft carrier]], Langley was converted from a collier USS Jupiter (AC-3), and also the U.S. Navy's first electrically propelled ship. She had low speed and was used as an experimental ship for testing various technical innovations as well as for training navy pilots. The carrier was equipped with secondary armament to repel attacks from enemy destroyers. Langley fought in World War II. On 27 February 1942, she was attacked by dive bombers of the Japanese 21st and 23rd Naval Air Flotillas and so badly damaged that she had to be scuttled by her escorts.

* LethalJokeCharacter: Used to be considered the worst carrier, but after several re-balances she's better than the same tier Hosho in both fighters AND strike capability. At the same time.

* {{Battlestar}}: As close to it as the game currently gets. She boasts a rather stiff array of secondaries for her tier. You probably still don't want to get into any gunfights but your enemies would be wise to keep their distance.
* CompositeCharacter: Due to the lead ship of the class being lost earlier in the war during the Battle of the Coral Sea, it's readily apparent that the in-game ship is more in-line with the USS ''Saratoga'', both in secondary and AA configuration, as well as the types of aircraft carried.
* SuperPrototype: She's actually older than her tier seven predecessor Ranger. Unlike her contemporary Kaga(which is also listed as tier 8), she never had to have her flight deck configuration modernized.

Tier X American Aircraft Carrier. An experimental carrier with an armored flight deck, Midway and her sisters are considered to be the predecessors to the "super carrier." Though Midway herself missed World War II by a matter of days, she did have a successful postwar career. The demise of the Soviet Union made her (and several other old ships like the Iowa-class) surplus to Navy requirements. As a result Midway was decommissioned, but not before serving as the flagship for Operation Desert Storm. She is preserved as a museum in San Diego, notably the largest aircraft carrier to receive such an honor and the only one that's not from the Essex class.

* WeHaveReserves: Boasts both the largest quantity of planes and the largest ratio of planes in reserve to planes active. In fact the tendency of her captains to feed their planes to AA after a bombing run just to get faster reloads resulted in the developers instituting a time penalty for having squadrons shot down. This ''still'' proved to be insufficient to balance the Midway with the Japanese ''Hakuryu'', so the developers went further and nerfed her hangar capacity.

* AntiAir: Do not let the rating number for it's AA stat fool you. The number is artificially low due to it's somewhat lacking short and mid range AA guns. Those 16 Dual-Purpose 128mm guns will tear apart anything that gets within range in mere seconds. The Atlanta also has unlimited charges of the Defensive AA fire consumable, with the cooldown time being the only limitation.

* SeriesMascot: Atlanta has appeared in more promotional materials than any other ship and shes reportedly one of the best selling premiums. Her unique nature and the prominence of the Atlanta class in WWII contribute to this.

American Tier VII Cruisers (yes, the Americans have a LOT of Tier VII Cruisers). An upgraded version of the Pensacola - she belonged to the ''Portland'' class, the class of heavy cruisers that set the pattern for every other American heavy cruiser with two triple eight-inch gun turrets in the front and one in the rear. She has very good firing arcs, able to fire all three turrets almost fully forward and still have a nice hard punch in the rear.

* GlassCannon: Downplayed. She's just as fast as ''New Orleans,'' with arguably better armor-piercing shells, at the cost of slower-loading guns and less armor. Not battleship heavy - anything shooting bigger than the ''Dunkerque's'' 13" guns is a guaranteed citadel penetration from the front - but heavy enough to reject most cruiser hits from the front.

American Tier VII reward cruiser, given to players who have made it to Rank 1 in Ranked Battles. She was later added to the armory for steel, then removed, and added for coal at a higher than average price.

** Downplayed trope after the commander skill rework. She did not revive the range increase that Atlanta did, and lost several important skills in the rework that she used to rely on.

Germany's Deutschland class of heavy cruisers armed with smaller battleship guns sent more than a few waves through naval thinkers of the world. These started a race to develop "cruiser killers", something of a more honest halfway point between heavy cruisers and battleships than battlecruisers.[[note]]Though there is a lot of naval debate on weather cruiser killers count as battlecruisers or super heavy cruisers.[[/note]] While plenty of nations would draw designs and even start such vessels, only one class of cruiser killers would be completed, the American Alaska class. Unfortunately they arrived when there were few if any enemy cruisers to hunt. That said, they made good carrier escorts and shore bombardment platforms. They were seen as very maintenance intensive units to maintain and were decommissioned shortly after WWII and scrapped decades later.

* AntiAir: Do not let the rating number for it's AA stat fool you. The number is artificially low due to it's somewhat lacking short and mid range AA guns. Those 16 Dual-Purpose 128mm guns will tear apart anything that gets within range in mere seconds. The Atlanta also has unlimited charges of the Defensive AA fire consumable, with only the cooldown time being the only limitation.

!Ohio

* ComplacementGamingSyndrome: She's extremly popular in all kinds of tournirs.
* CompositeCharacter: Basically Montana with Georgia's 18 inch guns.

Being one of two first tech trees in the game, US ships serve as a reference point, that all other factions deviate from. They has [[TheGenericGuy no real distinctive traits]], but also [[JackOfAllStats no real weaknessess]]. Their only truly strong area is good AA defence, thanks to 5"/38-calibre dual-purpose gun, that was so good, it was mounted on everything from auxiliary ships to aircraft carriers. And even then certain ships [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter outperform them in this area]].

US Navy was one of the two factions to be introduced on the game's launch. In June 2018 line of Cruisers was split. In October 2020 alternative line of Battleships was released.

* MoreDakka: Has 8x double barreled 128mm dual-purpose guns, and able to bring up to 14 of those barrels on to target at a time, all with about a 3 to 4 second reload. Sequential firing the batteries leads to an almost continuous fire with only a slight pause between the last turret of the previous salvo, and the first turret of the next.

* [[LastOfHisKind Last Of Her Kind]]: The last dreadnought left in the world, and something often brought up when talking about her. Several times the real vessel has come close to being permantely lost to damage.

* MightyGlacier: In common with every class of American battleship up through Tier VI. Twelve 14-inch rifles and fantastically thick armor with good vertical protection, but not very fast. In fact she has lacks the speed retention US battleships normally get during a turn, making her in practice''even slower.''

The ''Red Oak Victory'' is a transport (specifically a victory ship) launched by the USN in 1944 and rented out as a cargo ship post war before being donated as a museum ship, which she remains today. In-game, containers are collected, stored, and opened aboard the ''Red Oak Victory''. As a result she is present in every port in the game.

Besides ''Red Oak Victory'' a number of other victory ships serve as objectives in the game during Scenario mode.