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USS LST-71


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Quebec - Hotel - Oscar
 NQHO
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive, 1 April 1945, Okinawa) - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (3) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)

USS LST-71 was manned by the US Coast Guard during World War II
LST-1 Class Tank Landing Ship:
  • Laid down, 27 November 1942, at Jeffersonville Boat and Machine Co., Jeffersonville, IN.
  • Launched, 27 February 1943
  • Commissioned USS LST-71, 9 June 1943, LCDR. Frank E. Miner, USCGR, in command
  • During World War II, USS LST-71 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
    LST Flotilla Five, CAPT. J.R. Clark USN;
     LST Group Fourteen, CDR. R.W. Lejeuneesse, USN
     LST Division Twenty-Eight and
    LST Flotilla Thirteen, CAPT. J.G. Sampson USN (22);
    LST Group Thirty-Nine, CDR. B. T. Zelenka USN (24);
    LST Division Seventy-Eight and participated in the following campaigns;

    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaigns and Dates Campaigns and Dates
    Marianas operation
    Capture and occupation of Guam, 21 July to 5 August 1944    		 Okinawa Gunto operation
    Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 1 to 11 April 1945
    Treasury Island-Bougainville operation
    Treasury Island landing, 1 November 1944     		 

  • Decommissioned, 25 March 1946
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 8 May 1946
  • USS LST-71 earned three battle stars for World War II service
  • Sold for conversion to merchant service, 23 January 1948, to Atlantic and Pacific Packing Co., Seattle, WA.
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement
    1,625 t.(lt)
    4,080 t.(fl) (sea-going draft w/1675 ton load)
    2,366 t. (beaching displacement)
    Length 328' o.a.
    Beam 50'
    Draft
    light 2' 4" fwd, 7' 6" aft
    sea-going 8' 3" fwd, 14' 1" aft
    landing 3' 11" fwd, 9' 10" aft (landing w/500 ton load)
    limiting 11' 2"
    maximum navigation 14' 1"
    Speed 11.6 kts. (trial)
    Endurance 24,000 miles @ 9kts. while displacing 3960 tons
    Complement
    13 officers
    104 enlisted
    Troop Accommodations
    16 officers
    147 enlisted
    Boats 2 LCVP
    Cargo Capacity (varied with mission - payloads between 1600 and 1900 tons)
    Typical loads
    One Landing Craft Tank (LCT), tanks, wheeled and tracked vehicles, artillery, construction equipment and military supplies. A ramp or elevator forward allowed vehicles access to tank deck from main deck
    Additional capacity included sectional pontoons carried on each side of vessel amidships, to either build Rhino Barges or use as causeways. Married to the bow ramp, the causeways would enabled payloads to be delivered ashore from deeper water or where a beachhead would not allow the vessel to be grounded forward after ballasting
    Armament (varied with availability when each vessel was outfitted. Retro-fitting was accomplished throughout WWII. The ultimate armament design for United States vessels was
    2 - Twin 40MM gun mounts w/Mk. 51 directors
    4 - Single 40MM gun mounts
    12 single 20MM gun mounts
    Fuel Capacity
    Diesel 4,300 Bbls
    Propulsion
    two General Motors 12-567A, 900hp Diesel engines
    single Falk Main Reduction Gears
    three Diesel-drive 100Kw 230V D.C. Ship's Service Generators
    two propellers, 1,700shp
    twin rudders
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    LST-71 65k USS LST-71 at anchor, date and location unknown. Ron Muscarella
    LST-71 59k USS LST-71 at anchor, date and place location. Photo courtesy Albert T. Harris USS LST-71 collection
    LST-71
    1016007121    		 219k USS LST-71 at anchor in the harbor at Fiji, 12 September 1943.
    6th Special Navy Construction Battalion (N.C.B.) Photo    		 Zach Morris
    Editor in Chief, LST Scuttlebutt Magazine
    U.S. Landing Ship Tank Association
    LST-71
    1016007122    		 198k
    LST-71
    1016007120    		 515k USS LST-71 at anchor, date and location unknown. Jared E. Stoddard for his father Ellwyn Reed Stoddard USS LST-71
    LSM-84 66k USS LST-71, an unidentified LST and USS LSM-84 beached at Okinawa, date unknown. USS LSM-84 is unloading an armored tracked vehicle. USS LSM / LSMR Association
    LST-71 28k USS LST-71 at anchor in San Francisco Bay, circa 1945-46.
    US Navy photo # NH 83259, courtesy of D.M. McPherson, 1975. US Naval Historical Center.    		 Mike Green
    View the LST-71
    Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)
    Commanding Officers
    01LCDR. Miner, Frank E., USCGR9 June 1943 - 1944
    02LT. Ruddy, Thomas A., USCGR1944 - 21 September 1945
    03LTjg. Rooney, Edward J., USCGR21 September 1945 - 14 November 1945
    04LT. Dalin. John 14 November 1945 - 7 February 1946
    05LT. Taylor, E. E. 7 February 1946 - 25 March 1946
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    LST Flotilla Five War Diary May 1944
    LST Flotilla Five War Diary July 1944
    LST Flotilla Five Action Report 28 July 1944
    USS LST-71 Crew and Miscellaneous photos
    The USS LST Ship Memorial
    LST Home Port
    State LST Chapters
    United States LST Association
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