On 4 June, "Pittsburgh" began to fight a typhoon which by early next day had increased to winds and waves. Shortly after her starboard scout plane had been lifted off its catapult and dashed onto the deck by the wind, "Pittsburgh"s second deck buckled, her bow structure thrust upward, and then the front fell off. However, not a man was lost. Still fighting the storm, and maneuvering to avoid being rammed by the drifting bow-structure, "Pittsburgh" was held quarter-on to the seas by engine manipulations while the forward bulkhead was shored. After a seven-hour battle, the storm subsided, and "Pittsburgh" proceeded at to Guam, arriving on 10 June. Her bow, nicknamed "McKeesport" (a suburb of Pittsburgh), was later salvaged by the tugboat USS "Munsee" and brought into Guam. The 104-foot section of bow broke off owing to poor plate welds at the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co. at the Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, in April 1943.