LCT(5)-458 transported B Battery of 29th Field Artillery Battalion, CO CAPT Vernon P. Burns, scheduled to land on Tare Green at H+145 (June 6, 1944). However, on the way in she struck a mine. Of the 59 artillerists aboard, 37 were killed and 22 were wounded. The bodies of 27 men were never recovered. Battery B was reconstituted with about thirty reserves who were left in the UK plus replacements, and joined the battalion after the surrender of Cherbourg on June 27. Many sources say there were 39 people killed, but Irving Smolens (still alive), who served with 29th FA, said that the Army records are wrong in this respect.

"1000 The next LCT's were scheduled for the 13th wave, Flotilla 4. LCT(5)-362 (one of five LCT's) was lost en route to the Uncle Red Beach. The 14th wave on Tare Green Beach, also Flotilla 4, lost LCT-458. At the Uncle Red Sector, three of the LCT's were sunk during the landing, LCT Mark(5)'s LCT-486, LCT-443, and LCT-489. (On the 14th wave, four of the eleven LCT's were lost)."
(Source: LCT Stories - Joe Suozzo's report