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USS LST-462

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Foxtrot - Oscar - Zulu
NFOZ

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (5)
Bottom Row - World War II Victory Medal - Philippine Presidential Unit Citation - Philippines Liberation Medal (2)

LST-1 Class Tank Landing Ship:

Laid down, 4 October 1942, at Kaiser, Inc., Vancouver, WA.

Launched, 6 November 1942

Commissioned USS LST-462, 21 February 1943, LT. Cooper K. Ragan USNR in command.

During World War II USS LST-462 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:

Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
Hollandia operation, 15 May 1944	Luzon operation Lingayen Gulf landings, 4 to 17 January 1945
Western New Guinea operations Biak Island operation, 27 to 29 May, 31 May to 4 June, 9 to 13 June 1944 Noemfoor Island operation, 4 to 11 July 1944 Cape Sansapor operation, 30 July, 4, 6 to 14, 14 to 19 August 1944 Morotai landings, 15 September 1944	Borneo operation Balikpapan operation, 3 to 7 July 1945
Leyte operation Leyte landings, 13 to 28 October 1944

Decommissioned, 21 March 1946

Struck from the Naval Register, 1 May 1946

USS LST-462 earned five battle stars for World War II service

Transferred to the Maritime Administration for disposal

Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 15 December 1948, to Hughes Brothers., Inc., New York, N.Y.

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

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
1016046203	298k	USS LST-462 (In Convoy), transporting units of the *836th Engineer Group, 374th Fighter Group* and the *18th Fighter Group* ground personnel with heavy construction equipment and supplies for the construction of airstrips on Middleburg Island and Cape Sansapor on the Northern tip of Dutch New Guinea, July 1944. US National Archives Identifier 193806591 - US Army Air Corps photo # 68158 A.C.	David Upton
1016046204	211k	Immediately after USS LST-462 beached, the US Army Air Corps *836th Engineers* started unloading their heavy equipment to be used in construction of a landing strip on Middleburg Island, off the coast of Dutch New Guinea. 1 August 1944. US National Archives Identifier 193806055 - US Army Air Corps photo # A68161A.C.	David Upton
	266k	USS LST-462, USS LST-245, USS LST-458 and an unidentified LST beached at Morotai, 15 September 1944, as Army engineers unload their equipment. US Army Signal Corps photo # SC 261042, by T/SGT Henry Palm, now in the collections of the US National Archives.	Dave Kerr
	963k	USS LST-462 beached in the background as medium tanks splash off USS LST-552 on White Beach, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 21 January 1945. US Army Signal Corps photo # SC 200015, from the collections of the US National Archives.	Dave Kerr
	69k	USS LST-462, USS LST-552 and two unidentified LSTs beached on White Beach, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 21 January 1945.	John B. C. Golini to honor is father Lt. Benjamin H. Golini USNR (Supply and Gunnery Officer) USS LST-552
	189k	USS LST-462 probably in the Philippines, date unknown.	Mike Sheedy for his father Douglas L. Sheedy S1/c USS LST-462

USS LST-462
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)

Commanding Officers
01	LT. Ragan, Cooper K., USNR	21 February 1943 - 18 June 1944
02	LT. Gregory, Walter D., USNR	18 June 1944 - December 1945
03	LTjg. Schaefer, Norman Winton, USNR	December 1945 - 21 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
History of LST Flotilla Seven
The USS LST Ship Memorial
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United States LST Association

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