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Asiatic-Pacific Campaign |
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| Campaign and Dates | Campaign and Dates |
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| Leyte operation
Leyte landings, 11 October to 29 November 1944 Ormoc Bay landings, 7 to 8 December 1944 | Consolidation and capture of the Southern Philippines;
Mindanao Island landings, 10 to 18 March, 24 March to 14 April, 17 to 23 April and 3 May 1945 |
| Luzon operation
Mindoro landings, 12 to 18 December 1944 | Borneo operation
Balikpapan operation, 25 June to 8 July 1945 |
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77k | USS LSM-258 under way, in Hampton Roads, 23 July 1944. starboard bow view. Norfolk Navy Yard photo serial # 8167(44). |
USS LSM / LSMR Association | |
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68k | USS LSM-258 under way, in Hampton Roads, 23 July 1944. starboard broadside view. Norfolk Navy Yard photo serial # 8168(44). |
USS LSM / LSMR Association | |
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71k | USS LSM-258 under way, in Hampton Roads, 23 July 1944. starboard quarter view. Norfolk Navy Yard photo serial # 8169(44). |
USS LSM / LSMR Association | |
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46k | USS LSM-258 under way, in Hampton Roads, 23 July 1944. stern view. Norfolk Navy Yard photo. |
Bill Brinkley and the USS LSM-LSMR Association | |
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112k | USS LSM-258 underway, in Hampton Roads, 23 July 1944. aerial starboard bow view. US Navy photo # BUAer 235811, released 30 January 1945. |
Richard Miller USS LSM-47 to the USS LSM / LSMR Association | |
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134k | USS LSM-258 underway, in Hampton Roads, 23 July 1944. aerial stern view. US Navy photo # BUAer 235808, released 30 January 1945. |
Richard Miller US LSM-47to the USS LSM / LSMR Association | |
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44k | Aerial view of USS LSM-258 under way probably in Hampton Roads, 23 July 1944, illustrating the utilitarian, but efficient
design of the LSM vessel. The central cargo deck is flanked by side housing for crew, operating equipment and a single bow mounted 40mm mount. Australian War Memorial, Photo No. 302791 |
Mike Green | |
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373k | USS LSM-258, USS LSM-34 and probably USS LSM-311 unloading troops and equipment during the invasion of the Philippine Islands. Twelve LSM’s composed Task Unit 78.2.5, the Task Unit departed Hollandia for Leyte, Friday 13 October 1944. Arrived without incident 20 October. USS LSM 311, USS LSM-34 and USS LSM-258 assigned white beach, two, beached at 1027. The Higgins boat in the foreground belongs to USS Arneb (AKA-56). | Brian Miller also Contributed in the name of Purl Allan Ferrier, S1c, SV-6 USNR, LSM-87 by Vicki Purl Ferrier-Taylor |
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65k | USS LSM-258 and USS LSM-139 approach the beach at Leyte on A-Day, 20 October 1944. US Navy photo # 59508, released 6 November 1944. |
Richard Miller USS LSM-47 to the USS LSM / LSMR Association | |
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65k | USS LSM-258 with another LSM approach a beach, date and place unknown. Photo was taken from the deck of an LST. US Army Signal Corps photo # SC 200499-8. |
USS LSM / LSMR Association | |
101425814 | 244k | LSMs including USS LSM-258 and USS LSM-318 carrying the 2nd wave of the US Army 77th Division moving into a beach near Ormoc, Leyte Island, Philippine Islands,
7 December 1944.
US National Archives Identifier 80662843 - US Army Signal Corps photo # 199456 |
David Upton | |
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65k | USS LSM-258 with another LSM approach a beach, date and place unknown. Photo was taken from the deck of an LST. US Army Signal Corps photo # SC 200499-8. |
USS LSM / LSMR Association | |
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166k | In the foreground, a Japanese landing barge at Ormoc Bay, and in the background several US landing ships including USS LSM-258 and two unidentified LSM's, 7-8 December 1944. | Submitted by Adrain K 'for educational purposes' Source-"Pictorial History of Australia at War 39-45", 5 Volumes. 1959 |
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55k | USS LSM-258 homeward bound, in San Francisco Bay, 1946. US Navy photo # NH 81025 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, courtesy D.M. McPherson, 1974. |
USS LSM / LSMR Association | |
| Commanding Officers | ||
| 01 | LTjg. Donaldson, Robert M., USNR | 2 June 1944 - August 1944 |
| 02 | LT. Schaefer, LeRoy E. W., USNR | August 1944 - 16 October 1944 |
| 03 | LTjg. Latimer, Collie T., USNR | 26 October 1944 - May 1945 |
| 04 | LTjg. Black, John, USNR | May 1945 - February 1946 |
| 05 | LTjg. Leland, Homer C., USNR | February 1946 - 2 May 1946 |
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