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USS LST-471

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Foxtrot - Yankee - Alpha
NFYA

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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 - Philippines Presidential Unit Citation - Philippine Liberation Medal (2)

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During World War II USS LST-471 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
LST Flotilla Seven, CAPT. R. M. Scruggs, USN;
LST Group Nineteen, CDR. James E. Van Zandt, USNR and participated in the following campaigns:

Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
Eastern New Guinea operation Lae occupation, 4 to 5 September 1943	Consolidation and capture of Southern Philippines Mindanao Island landings, 10 to 11 March 1945
Leyte operation Leyte landings, 16 to 29 October and 10 to 29 November 1944	Borneo operation Balikpapan operation, 28 June to 10 July 1945
Luzon operation Lingayen Gulf landings, 9 to 18 January 1945

Final Disposition, lost during a storm while under tow to the scrappers yard off the coast of North Carolina's outer banks, laying in 15 feet of water about 250 yards off the beach in Rodanthe

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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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Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Source
	87k	USS LST-471 drydocked in December 1943 in a Fitzroy graving dock at the Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Cockatoo Island Dock Yard to repair damage sustained by Japanese aerial attack off Cape Ward Hunt, New Guinea on 4 September 1943. Australian War Memorial photo #'s 306418.		Mike Green
	464k	USS LST-471 at anchor in the South Pacific in 1944.		Bill James for his father William James USS LST-471
	89k	USS LST-471 beached at Morotai, Western New Guinea while disembarking Australian troops of the 2/10 Transport Platoon and 2/6 General Transport Company. Australian War Memorial photo # 305768.		Australian War Memorial Naval Historical Collection.
	887k	Christmas 1945 and New Years 1946 greetings from Commander LST Group Nineteen, CDR James E. Van Zandt USNR to the ships of the Group: USS LST-466 USS LST-245 USS LST-467 USS LST-171 USS LST-181 USS LST-469 USS LST-470 USS LST-471 USS LST-468 USS LST-473 USS LST-475 and USS LST-474		Bill James for his father William James USS LST-471
	408k	USS LST-471 crew photo taken in 1946 when the ship returned to the States. William James, second row number one.		Bill James for his father William James USS LST-471
	61k	The wreck of the ex-USS LST-471 grounded at Rodanthe, North Carolina, Outer Banks. After being sold for scrapping, ex-USS LST-471 and ex-USS LST-292 were being towed together off the East Coast when their tow line parted during a storm. Both LSTs beached near Rodanthe and were deemed unsalvageable. Photos were taken by Emmett L. Baxter sometime between 1951 and 1953.		William L. Baxter
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	57k	The hulk of ex-USS LST-471 sunk off the beach at Rodanthe, North Carolina. Ex-USS LST-471 was lost during a storm while under tow enroute to her scrappers yard. She now is laying in 15 feet of water about 250 yards off the beach, much further out then this earlier photo shows.		Marc Corbett

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USS LST-471
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)

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Commanding Officers
01	LT. Otto, Samuel, C. USNR	11 March 1943 - 20 August 1943
02	LT. Cory, George L. USNR	20 August 1943 - October 1944
03	LT. Haman, John Kisterbock USNR	October 1944 - 15 August 1945
04	LT. Field, Donald Allyn USNR	15 August 1945 - October 1945
05	LT. Bently, Julius Marvin USNR	October 1945 - 1946
06	LTjg. Lloyd, Harold W. USNR	1946 - 26 February 1946

Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves

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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log

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Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
History of LST Flotilla Seven
The USS LST Ship Memorial
LST Home Port
State LST Chapters
United States LST Association

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