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USS LST-793


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Golf - Zulu - Echo
 NGZE
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)

USS LST-793 was manned by the US Coast Guard during World War II
LST-542 Class Tank Landing Ship:
  • Laid down, 23 July 1944, at Dravo Corp. Pittsburgh, PA.
  • Launched, 2 September 1944
  • Commissioned USS LST-793, 5 October 1944 at New Orleans, LA., LT. George A. Miller, USCG, in command
  • During World War II USS LST-793 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
    LST Flotilla Twenty-Nine, CAPT. C. H. Peterson USCG (25)
     LST Group Eight-Six, CDR. W. B. Millington USCG (32)
     LST Division One Hundred Seventy-Two and participated in the following campaign:

    Asiatic-Pacific Campaign
    Campaign and Dates
    Okinawa Gunto operation
    Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 26 March to 29 April 1945

  • Following World War II, LST-793 was assigned to Occupation service in the Far East from 9 to 25 September 1945
  • Decommissioned, 29 April 1946
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 3 July 1946
  • >USS LST-793 earned one battle star for World War II service
  • Final Disposition, sold for commercial operations, 16 December 1947 to the Tex-O-Kan Flour Mills Co., Dallas, TX.
    Specifications:
    Displacement
    1,625 t.(lt)
    4,080 t.(fl) (sea-going draft w/1675 ton load)
    2,366 t. (beaching displacement)
    Length 328' o.a.
    Beam 50'
    Draft
    light 2' 4" fwd, 7' 6" aft
    sea-going 8' 3" fwd, 14' 1" aft
    landing 3' 11" fwd, 9' 10" aft (landing w/500 ton load)
    limiting 11' 2"
    maximum navigation 14' 1"
    Speed 11.6 kts. (trial)
    Endurance 24,000 miles @ 9kts. while displacing 3960 tons
    Complement
    13 officers
    104 enlisted
    Troop Accommodations
    16 officers
    147 enlisted
    Boats 2 LCVP
    Cargo Capacity (varied with mission - payloads between 1600 and 1900 tons)
    Typical loads
    One Landing Craft Tank (LCT), tanks, wheeled and tracked vehicles, artillery, construction equipment and military supplies. A ramp or elevator forward allowed vehicles access to tank deck from main deck
    Additional capacity included sectional pontoons carried on each side of vessel amidships, to either build Rhino Barges or use as causeways. Married to the bow ramp, the causeways would enabled payloads to be delivered ashore from deeper water or where a beachhead would not allow the vessel to be grounded forward after ballasting
    Armament (varied with availability when each vessel was outfitted. Retro-fitting was accomplished throughout WWII. The ultimate armament design for United States vessels was
    2 - Twin 40MM gun mounts w/Mk. 51 directors
    4 - Single 40MM gun mounts
    12 single 20MM gun mounts
    Fuel Capacity
    Diesel 4,300 Bbls
    Propulsion
    two General Motors 12-567A, 900hp Diesel engines
    single Falk Main Reduction Gears
    three Diesel-drive 100Kw 230V D.C. Ship's Service Generators
    two propellers, 1,700shp
    twin rudders
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    LST-793 44k USS LST-793 launching, 2 September 1944, at Dravo Corp., East Yard, Pittsburgh, PA. LST-793 web site
    LST-793 21k USS LST-793 beached with bow doors open, date and location unknown. LST-793 web site
    LST-793 26k USS LST-793 underway, date and location unknown. LST-793 web site
    LST-793 29k USS LST-793 beached while off-loading tracked vehicles, date and location unknown. Photo by Ken Culver, LST-793 web site
    LST-793 22k USS LST-793 beached while loading trucks, date and location unknown. LST-793 web site
    LST-793 64k USS LST-793 beached while loading/unloading refugees, date and location unknown.
    US Coast Guard photo from the collections of the US Coast Guard Historian's Office.    		 Mike Green
    USS LST-793
    Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)
    Commanding Officers
    01LT. Miller, George A., USCG5 October 1944 to 6 February 1946
    02LT. Emric, Rudolph R., USCGR6 February 1946 - 29 April 1946
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    The USS LST Ship Memorial
    LST 793
    LST Home Port
    State LST Chapters
    United States LST Association
    U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office - USS LST-793
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