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USS LST-474

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Golf - Hotel - Foxtrot
NGHF

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive, Leyte landing)
Second Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (8) - World War II Victory Medal
Third Row - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - Philippines Presidential Unit Citation - Philippines Liberation Medal (2)
Personal Awards

Purple Hearts (Leyte landings, number unknown)

LST-1 Class Tank Landing Ship:

Laid down, 10 July 1942, at Kaiser, Inc., Vancouver, WA.

Launched, 12 December 1942

Commissioned USS LST-474, 19 March 1943, LT. Richard W. Langworthy, USN, in command

During World War II USS LST-474 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:

Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
Eastern New Guinea operation Lae occupation, 4 to 5 and 9 to 11 September 1943 Saidor occupation, 2 to 11, 19 to 22 and 28 to 30 January 1944	Leyte operation Leyte landings, 13 to 27 October and 5 to 18 November 1944
Bismarck Archipelago operation Green Islands landing, 15 to 19 February 1944	Luzon operation Lingayen Gulf landings, 4 to 15 January 1945
Hollandia operation, 21 to 25 April 1944	Consolidation and capture of Southern Philippines Mindanao Island landings, 17 to 23 April 1945
Western New Guinea operation Biak Island operation, 28 to 31 May and 3 to 7, 9 to 14, 16 to 20 June 1944 Morotai landings, 15 September 1944	Borneo operation Balikpapan operation, 28 June to 7 July 1945

Following World War II USS LST-474 was assigned to Occupation service in the Far East from 4 to 19 September 1945

Decommissioned, 22 March 1946

Struck from the Naval Register, 17 April 1946

USS LST-474 earned eight battle stars for World War II service

Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 17 December 1947, to Ships and Power Equipment Corp., Barber, N.J.

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
US Naval History and Heritage Command Photo # USMC 69080	125k	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	315k		US Naval History and Heritage Command Dan Wilmes
	115k	USS LST-474 beached at "Yellow Beach One," Silimate Point, Cape Gloucester, New Britain, 14 April 1944. She grounded at 0721 and loaded all day, departing for Cape Cretin, New Guinea the next morning at 1104. US Marine Corps photo # 127-GW-89193 now in the custody of the National Archives at NARA II, College Park, MD.	Tracy White
	51k	USS LST-474 beached at Aitape, North East New Guinea, 22 April 1944, while Royal Australian Air Force Engineers unload their heavy equipment across the beach. Australian War Memorial photo # OG1030.	Australian War Memorial
	53k	USS LST-474 and two other LSTs tied up to *USS Culebra Island* (ARG-7)** while at anchor off Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea, October 1944. These three LSTs were damaged by shore batteries at Leyte, each of them lost men and two of them an officer each. Photo by Vincent Cottrell	Daniel Cottrell in honor of his father Vincent Cottrell, Coxswain, USNR USS Culebra Island
	1422k	USS LST-474 beached at Aitape, North East New Guinea, 12 December 1944, while Royal Australian and US forces load men and equipment for an upcoming landing. The LCT in the foreground is unidentified. US Army Signal Corps photo #SC 200008 from the collections of the US National Archives.	Dave Kerr
	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
	56k	USS LST-475, USS LST-474, USS LST-594 and other amphibious vessels beached in the Philippines, August 1945. Note crew members swimming in the surf near the bow of *LST-474*.	Thomas Clevenger 1SG (ret), US Army for his father-in-law LT. Vasco Luchi USNR, USS LST-582, courtesy Ed Novak Electricians Mate USS LST-582
	78k	USS LST-474 beached at Balikpapan, Borneo, 3 July 1945, while Royal Australian Air Force Engineers of No. 61 Airfield Construction Wing RAAF, unload their heavy machinery. Australian War Memorial photo # OG3033.	Australian War Memorial.

USS LST-474
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)

Commanding Officers
01	LT. Langworthy, Richard Walter, USN	19 March 1943 - 4 April 1944
02	LTjg. Ross, Harvey T., USNR	4 April 1944 - May 1945
03	LT. Hull, G. L., USNR	May 1945 - 22 March 1946


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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
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