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Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns |
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Campaign and Dates | Campaign and Dates |
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Bismarck-Archipelago operations
Cape Gloucester, New Britain, 26 to 27 December 1943, 3 to 7, 11 to 14 January, 13 to 18 February 1944 Admiralty Islands landings, 4 to 8 March 1944 | Leyte operation
Leyte landings, 13 to 27 October and 5 to 18 November 1944 |
Eastern New Guinea operation
Saidor occupation, 15 to 17, 19 to 21, 28 to 30 January, 17 to 19, 21 to 23, 25 to 28 February 1944 | Luzon operations
Lingayen Gulf landings, 4 to 18 January 1945 |
Hollandia operation
Aitape Humboldt Bay-Tanahmerah Bay, 21 to 27 April 1944 | Consolidation and capture of the Southern Philippines
Visayan Island landings, 18 March 1945 |
Western New Guinea operations
Biak Island operation, 9 to 15 June 1944 Noemfoor Island operation, 8 to 14 July 1944 Cape Sansapor operation, 20 to 26 August 1944 Morotai landings, 15 September 1944 |
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Size | Image Description | Source | |
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1016006811 |
298k | USS LST-68 beached on a ramp while loading troops for the Cape Gloucester, New Britain, operation, circa December 1943 -
February 1944.
US National Archives Identifier 205584323, Local Identifier 26-G-3399, US Coast Guard photo 3399 by Hansen |
David Upton | |
1016006808 |
523k | Coast Guard gunners aboard USS LST-68 stand by their gun, dubbed "Cobina", ready to follow the injunction painted on the gun
shield to "lead'em" at the first sign of Japanese activity on the jungle-edged beach at Cape Gloucester, New Britain. LST-68 participated in the invasion
from December 1943 to February 1944. Note troops on shore
US National Archives Identifier 205584334, Local Identifier 26-G-3069, US Coast Guard photo # 3069, by US Coast Guard photographer Hansen, 26 or 30 December 1943. |
David Upton | |
1016006815 |
275k | USS LST-68 underway loaded with trucks and troops probably during the Cape Gloucester, New Britain Operations, circa
December 1943- February 1944.
US National Archives Identifier 205584305, Local Identifier 26-G-3072, US Coast Guard photo # 3072 by US Coast Guard photographer Dan Hansen. |
David Upton | |
1016006810 NA 205584328 |
467k | USS LST-68 beached, probably, at Cape Gloucester, New Britain, circa December 1943 - February 1944, while unloading troops.
US National Archives Identifier 205584328, Local Identifier 26-G-3406, US Coast Guard photo 3406 by Hansen US National Archives Identifier 205584317, Local Identifier 26-G-3398, US Coast Guard photo 3398 by Hansen |
David Upton | |
1016006813 NA 205584317 |
430k | |||
1016006814 |
263k | Stretcher bearers and USS LST-68 crew members bring wounded soldiers aboard during in a heavy down-pour of rain at Cape Gloucester, New Britain, circa 26-30 December 1943.
US National Archives Identifier 205584311, Local Identifier 26-G-3095, US Coast Guard photo # 3095 by US Coast Guard photographer Dan Hansen. |
David Upton | |
1016006809 NA 205584331 |
265k | Japanese Prisoners of War being transported aboard USS LST-68 to a base camp help U.S. Coast Guard sailors scrub down the deck, circa December 1943 to February 1944.
US National Archives Identifier 205584331, Local ID 26-G-3205, US Coast Guard photo # 3205, by US Coast Guard photographer Hansen and US National Archives Identifier 205584314. Local Identifier 26-G-3089, US Coast Guard photo 3089 by Hansen |
David Upton | |
1016006812 NA 205584314. |
494k | |||
1016006816 |
354k | USS LST-68 loaded with all things needed to support the Army units during the Cape Gloucester, New Britain Operations, circa
December 1943- February 1944.
US National Archives Identifier 205584240, Local Identifier 26-G-3200, US Coast Guard photo # 3200 by US Coast Guard photographer Dan Hansen. |
David Upton | |
1016006801 |
569k | USS LST-68 beached at Cape Gloucester on New Britain Island after a tropical rain had transformed the shore into a
quagmire. Trucks rolled down the ramp to struggle through the slime. Mud seems to be linked with war - even in the palmy South Seas. Note the torpedo boats alongside,
Circa December 1943-February 1944.
US National Archives Identifier 205584234, Local Identifier 26-G-3397, US Coast Guard photo # 3397 by US Coast Guard photographer Dan Hansen. |
Don Leal USS LST-19 and USS LST 67 and David Upton | |
154k | USS LST-68 beached at Oro Bay, New Guinea, 8 January 1944, while US Marine casualties returning from the Cape Gloucester, New Britain battle zone are being assisted into waiting ambulances. US Army Signal Corps photo # SC 186801, 17 May 1944 by T/SGT Jack L. Pfeiffer. |
Dave Kerr | ||
1016006817 |
525k | USS LST-68 beached while unloading trucks at Cape Sansapor on the western end of Dutch New Guinea, July-August 1944.
US National Archives Identifier 205586826, Local Identifier 26-G-2643, US Coast Guard photo # 2643. |
David Upton | |
150k | USS LST-68 beached at Saipan, date unknown. | Stan Gardinich for his father Nick Gardinich SM1/c USNR USS LST-68 | ||
49k | USS LST-68 loads troops from another amphibious craft while riding at anchor, date and location unknown. Caption accompanying this photo reads: "LSM brings out Major General Siebert's troop to LST 68, at anchor." | Tommy Trampp | ||
1016006806 NA 205585663 |
455k | 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 | |
1016006807 NA 205585654 |
401k | |||
122k | US Army 40th Infantry Division troops wade ashore from USS LST-68 at Panay Island, Philippines, date unknown. US Army Signal Corps photo. |
Tommy Trampp |
Commanding Officers | |||
LT. Rogers, John Walton, USN (Ferry Command) | May 1943 - 26 May 1943 | Ferry Command | |
01 | LT. Lindquist, Karl A. E., USCG | 26 May 1943 - 1944 | |
02 | LTjg. Poaler, Thomas E., USCG | 1944 - 1945 | |
03 | LT. Raphaelian, G. A., USCGR | 1945 - December 1945 | |
04 | LT. Gray, Julian L., USCG | December 1945 - 7 March 1946 |
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