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Asiatic-Pacific Campaign |
Campaign and Dates |
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Okinawa Gunto operation
Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 8 to 18 May 1945 |
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63k | LSM-253 under way, 8 May 1944, builder's completion photo, Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Fort Newark, NJ. | USS LSM / LSMR Association | ||
71k | LSM-253 under way, 8 May 1944, builder's completion photo, Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Fort Newark, NJ. | USS LSM / LSMR Association | ||
23k | LSM-253 under way, date and location unknown. | Russ Padden | ||
63k | LSM-253 under way, date and location unknown. | USS LSM / LSMR Association | ||
77k | LSM-253 under way, date and location unknown. USNI photo |
USS LSM / LSMR Association | ||
40k | LSM-253 under way, date and location unknown. US Navy photo. |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret. | ||
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409k | Left to Right: USS LSM-253, USS LSM-499, USS LSM-122, Unknown LSM, USS LSM-103, beached at Matsuyama, Skikokyu, Japan, 18 October 1945 | Paul Barrett for his father LTjg. Richard L Barrett, USNR USS LSM-499 | |
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225k | LSM-253 beached at beached on west coast of Lan Wu to return the NAMRU II expedition to Taiwan, date unknown.
US Navy BUMED photo # 09-8740-008 |
Michael G Rhode CIV USN BUMED |
Commanding Officers | ||
01 | LT. Gray, Taylor W., USNR | 9 May 1944 - March 1945 |
02 | LT. Adams, Samuel P., USNR | May - August 1945 |
03 | LT. McCarthy, William E., USNR | August 1945 - January 1946 |
04 | LTjg. Callan, William J., USNR | January 1946 - August 1946 |
05 | LT. Blevins, Delmar Edge, USN | August 1946 - 23 June 1947 |
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