Well, it is. All you really need there is to look at the hull form for comparison - the superstructure is deceptively battleship-like, especially when you look at it from the side, but if you look at it from above or front, it's kind of obvious where its roots are.
It is an odd little design of course, but it's more a case of convergent evolution than lineage. Alaska was basically the answer to the big Japanese CAs.
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