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Asiatic-Pacific Campaign |
Campaign and Dates |
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Iwo Jima operation
Assault and occupation of Iwo Jima 20 February to 16 March 1945 |
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218k | USS LSM-143 christening bottle holder, now in the collection of USS Yorktown Museum, Patriots Point, Charleston, S.C. | Robert Hall USS Tidewater | ||
300k | USS LSM-143 beached, date and location unknown. | Mike Running for his grandfather Delmar Garforth SM3c USS LSM-143 | ||
62k | Only the stern of USS LSM-143 is visible in this photo of her beached at Iwo Jima, date unknown. USS LSM-143 is up the beach beyond the LCVP in the foreground. Also of note is the seaplane in the harbor. | USS LSM / LSMR Association | ||
107k | USS LSM-143 with USS PC-590, left, and an unidentified YMS, right, aground on a reef at Okinawa, 9 October 1945 during Typhoon "Louise". | Photo by David Sweeten USS Mona Island contributed by Henry Carr. Donation of David Sweeten Family. | ||
75k | USS LSM-143 under way in San Francisco Bay, 1945-46. US Navy photo # NH 79857 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, courtesy D.M.McPherson, 1974. |
USS LSM / LSMR Association |
Commanding Officers | |||
01 | LT. White, Robert C., USNR | 30 June 1944 - December 1945 | |
02 | LTjg. Merschel, John A., USNR | December 1945 - March 1946 | |
03 | ENS. Bowden, Francis J., USNR | March 1946 - 14 Juune 1946 |
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