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Campaign and Dates |
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Invasion of Normandy, 6 to 25 June 1944 |
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82k | USS LST-533 dropping anchor while beaching at Normandy during the invasion, June 1944. US Army Signal Corps newsreel photo. |
Paulo Soukup | ||
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145k | USS LST-310 (2nd LST from the right) along with other ships putting cargo ashore on one of the invasion beaches, at low tide
during the first days of the Invasion of Normandy in June 1944. Among identifiable ships present are USS LST-532 (in the center of
the view); USS LST-262 (3rd LST from right); USS LST-533 (partially visible at far right);
USS LST-524 and LCT-637 beached above the tide line. Note the barrage balloons overhead and Army "half-track" convoy forming up on the beach. US Coast Guard photo # 26-G-2517 from the US Coast Guard collection in the US National Archives. |
Arthur DeLorenzo MoMM3/c USS LST 262 | |
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276k | From left to right;
USS LST-58,
USS LST-532,
LCT-637
USS LST-310,
USS LST-533 unload across the Normandy beachhead, during the first days of the
Invasion of Normandy in June 1944. Note the barrage balloons overhead.
US National Archives Identifier 205578624, Local Identifier 26-G-2515, US Coast Guard photo # 2515. |
Marilyn Smith and David Upton | |
319k | USS LST-533 underway, 29 April 1954, location unknown. | John W. Klar | ||
219k | USS Cheboygan County (LST-533) beached during a training invasion near Ft. Pierce, FL in November 1962. | Bill Gonyo | ||
19k | USS Cheboygan County (LST-533) underway, location unknown, circa 1968. | Photo by Michael Rougier | ||
72k | USS Cheboygan County (LST-533) underway, date and location unknown. | LST Home Port web site | ||
82k | USS Cheboygan County (LST-533), USS Walworth County (LST-1164), a Fletcher Class Destroyer and an MSTS Range Tracking ship moored at Rodman Naval Station, Panama Canal Zone, circa mid-1960s. | Bill Cole |
Commanding Officers | ||
01 | LT. Hanks, Clarence Edwin, USN | 27 January 1944 - 1946 |
Decommissioned | 1 December 1955 - 18 November 1961 | |
02 | LT. Beardslee Jr., Ralph Currier, USN | 18 November 1961 - 27 July 1963 |
03 | LT. Buchanan, Auda Edward, USN | 27 July 1963 - 2 August 1965 |
04 | LT. Allemang, John David, USN | 2 August 1965 - 8 May 1967 |
05 | LT. Durkee, Leroy Ralph, USN | 8 May 1967 - 6 May 1969 |
06 | LT. Greeson, Tommy Darell, USN | 6 May 1969 - 15 August 1969 |
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