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Battle of Cape Gloucester, New Britain, December 1943-January 1944. USS LST-18 and USS LST-463,
beached on a Cape Glousester beach.
US National Archives photo # 80-G-57464, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives |
US Naval History and Heritage Command |
US Naval History and Heritage Command
Photo # USMC 69080 |
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Cape Gloucester Invasion, December 1943. Loading LSTs at Oro Bay, New Guinea, on December 24, 1943, in preparation for the Cape Gloucester
landings two days later. Photographed by Brenner. LSTs present include (from left to right):
USS LST-202,
USS LST-466,
USS LST-468,
USS LST-475,
USS LST-474, and
USS LST-18. Note Marines marching by Jeep in foreground.
US Naval History and Heritage Command Photo # USMC 69080 and Photo from "A Photographic History of World War 2", Colliers, 1946. |
US Naval History and Heritage Command
Dan Wilmes |
Photo from "A Photographic History of World War 2", Colliers, 1946
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USS LST-26
USS LST-22 and in the far distance,
USS LST-66 and
USS LST-18 unloading on the beach at Tanah Merah Bay, Hollandia, Dutch East Indies, circa April-May 1944.
Photo taken from USS Virgo (AKA-20)
National Archives Identifier 205584998, Local Identifier 26-G-2301, US Coast Guard photo # 2301. |
Keith D Lumsden and David Upton |
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USS LST-18 underway as part of the invasion force for the island of Leyte, 7 October 1944.
USS LST-18 was the flagship of LST Flotilla Seven, Group Twenty-one, Division Forty-one Echelon L"ove"-1, for White Beach.
LST's in the convoy on October 7, 1944, enroute to Leyte, were;
USS LST-18,
USS LST-66
USS LST-67,
USS LST-68,
USS LST-614 and
USS LST 910 with
USS Muskogee (PF-49) as navigational aid.
USS LST-67 was the third LST in Echelon Love. Best estimate of the ship in the foreground is USS LST-66 and the smaller ship leading
LST-18 is Muskogee (PF-49).
Reference, COM LST GR 21, COM LST FLOT 7, and LST-67 war diaries found in National Archives, Identifiers
78717701,
78669287,
78650361 respectively.
US National Archives Identifier 205585378, Local Identifier 26-G-3565, US Coast Guard photo # 3565 by US Coast Guard photographer Lunde. |
David Upton |
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USS LST-18, USS LST-245, USS LST-202 and
USS LST-467 landing troops and material, on the beach at Leyte, P.I., D-Day 20 October 1944.
US Navy photo |
Raymond Cvetovich, Ph.D. |
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From left to right USS LST-67, USS LST-66, USS LST-18, USS LST-245, and USS LST-202 landing troops and material, on the beach at Leyte, P.I., D-Day 20 October 1944.
from the US Coast Guard Magazine "The Coast Guard and the Pacific War".
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Don Leal USS LST 67 & USS LST 19 |
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USS LST-18 at Wakde Island, Dutch New Guinea, 17 May 1944, loading wounded soldiers. |
Bill Brinkley |
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USS LST-18 beach at Wakde Island, Dutch New Guinea, 18 May 1944, while stretch bearers carry wounded through the surf and up
the ramp during the bitter battle for possession of Wakde Island and its air strip off Dutch New Guinea. Wakde Island is about 200 miles west of Hollandia on the north
shore of New Guinea.
US National Archives Identifier 205586910, Local Identifier 26-G-2294, US Coast Guard photo # 2294. |
David Upton |
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USS LST-18 under way at Sansapor, Dutch New Guinea, 30 July 1944, during the Western New Guinea operation.
US National Archives photo - Southwest Pacific Area photo # SigC-44-2156 by T/4 Bob Weirlinger |
Dave Kerr |
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The beach at Cape Sansapor, Dutch New Guinea, was not made to order for the American invaders, so troops "turned to" to build a ramp out to
the yawning bow doors USS LST-18.
US Coast Guard photo # USCG-V-II-25_LST18 |
Mike Green |
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Sometime prior to 14 February 1945, USS LST-68 leads USS LST-18 as the invasion armada moves on Luzon.
From the fantail of USS LST-168, the sea might of American presents a skyline of ships, as the U.S. task force steams into Lingayen Gulf to strike at the
beaches of Luzon. Close in the wake of the LST's, riding low with heavy cargoes of supplies on the horizon are transports and more LSTs moving forward under a leaden sky."
US National Archives Identifier 205585663, Local Identifier 26-G-3896, US Coast Guard # 26-G-3896 and
US National Archives Identifier 205585654, Local Identifier 26-G-3891, US Coast Guard # 26-G-3891 |
David Upton |
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USS LST-18 beached at Jacquinot Bay, New Britain, 8 August 1945. Personnel of the Australian 41 Landing Craft Company moving heavy gear onto the ship for movement to Borneo. Australian War Memorial photo # 094836. |
Australian War Memorial |
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USS LST-18 ready to retract from a beach with the help of several bulldozers, date and location unknown.
US Army Signal Corps. photo # SC 267899, now in the collections of the US National Archives. |
Dave Kerr |
