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Asiatic-Pacific Campaign |
Campaign and Dates |
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Okinawa Gunto operation
Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 1 to 9 April 1945 |
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279k | Starboard bow aerial view of USS LST-947 under way in the Atlantic Ocean, 23 October 1944.
Photo taken from an airship assigned to lighter-than-air squadron ZP-12 of NAS Lakehurst, New Jersey. LST-947 is wearing camouflage 31/20L. The
vertical colors are probably dull black, brown, navy green, ocean green and haze green.
US National Archives, Photo No. 80-G-286089, courtesy of C. Lee Johnson, usndazzle.com |
Mike Green | ||
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245k | USS LST-947 in the background at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard in March 1945. The Naval Officer is unidentified.
TimeLife_image 115948687, by Eugene Smith, Life Magazine. For personal non-commercial use only. |
David Upton |
Commanding Officers | ||
01 | LT. Siemssen, Rudolph, USN | 15 October 1944 - May 1946 |
02 | LTjg. Chesley, Robert Leroy, USN | May 1946 - 16 August 1946 |
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