USS Oklahoma City (CLG-5) was a Cleveland class light cruiser later converted to a Galveston class guided-missile cruiser. She was laid down on December 8, 1942 by the Cramp Shipbuilding Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; launched on February 20, 1944; and commissioned on December 22, 1944. She was placed out of commission in reserve on June 30, 1947.

In March 1957, the mothballed light cruiser Oklahoma City was removed from the Pacific Reserve Fleet. She was towed to the Bethlehem Steel Company shipyard at San Francisco, California, for conversion to a guided-missile light cruiser. Her hull number was changed to CLG-5 in May 1957 and the ship completed her transformation at the end of August 1960. Little of her original superstructure remained, and her previous gun battery had been greatly reduced. In place of the old after guns was a launcher, storage compartments and guidance systems for large, long-range “Talos” missiles.

Oklahoma City was recommissioned in early September 1960. Following shakedown and operations along the US West Coast, she deployed to the western Pacific in December 1961, serving as Seventh Fleet flagship from then until May 1962. She steamed back to Asian waters in July 1964 to begin her second tour as flagship of the Seventh Fleet. Beginning in mid-1965 she frequently operated in Vietnamese waters, providing naval gunfire support and performing other important missions.

After a shipyard overhaul and nearly two years' service in the eastern Pacific, Oklahoma City was assigned as permanent Seventh Fleet flagship in November 1968, the start of an eleven-year-long deployment. She travelled widely in the Far East, representing the United States in peaceful visits to nations in the region. She also made frequent Vietnam War cruises during the next four years, shelling targets ashore with her six- and five-inch guns, and employing her advanced radars and communications equipment to support the air campaign against North Vietnamese forces. She was decommissioned in mid-December 1979 and sunk as a target during combat exercises off Guam on March 26, 1999.

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