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Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Campaign and Dates |
Campaign and Dates |
Leyte operation
| Ormoc Bay landings, 11 to 24 December 1944 Consolidation and capture of Southern Philippines
| Mindanao Island landings, 10 March, 24 to 31 March and 10 to 16 May 1945 Sulu Archipelago landings, 2 to 4 April and 9 to 11 April 1945 Manila Bay-Bicol operations
| Mariveles-Corregidor, 14 to 28 February 1945 Borneo operations
| Balikpapan operation, 26 June to 6 July 1945 |
Navy Occupation Service Medal |
China Service Medal (extended) |
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27 September 1945 to 4 June 1946 | 27 September 1945to 4 June 1946 |
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33k | USS LSM-42 beached at Leyte Gulf, 1944 | Joe Johnston son of C. Ray Johnston, MoMM, USS LSM-42 wounded in action during Ormoc Bay landings |
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33k | USS LSM-42 beached at Tokyo Bay, 1945 | Joe Johnston son of C. Ray Johnston, MoMM, USS LSM-42 wounded in action during Ormoc Bay landings |
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95k | USS LSM-267, USS LSM-42 and USS LSM-38 beached at Morotai, Dutch East Indies, 16 June 1945 | Robert Benner to the USS LSM / LSMR Association | ||
77k | Units of the Australian 7 Division assembling and boarding USS LSM-42 at Morotai, Borneo, 21 June 1945. The landing ship is part of ships
forming a convoy for Operation OBOE 2 and is shown being loaded with an amphibious DUKW carrying a 25 pounder gun of the 2/4 Field Regiment.
Australian War Memorial, Photo No.109875. |
Mike Green | ||
76k | USS LSM-42 under way off Morotai in 1945. Photo probably taken from HMAS Manoora | Peter Johnson, son of Stoker Richard Lawrence (Laurie) Johnson RAN, HMAS Manoora | ||
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Commanding Officers | ||
01 | LT. Burton, Seymour I., USNR | 4 August 1944 - 12 August 1945 |
02 | LT. Wilson, John Charles, USNR | 12 August 1945 - December 1945 |
03 | LTjg. Smith, H. G., USNR | December 1945 - March 1946 |
04 | LTjg. Taylor, Terry, USNR | March 1946 - 4 June 1946 |
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