Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaigns |
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Campaign and Dates | Campaign and Dates |
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Convoy UGS-36, 1 April 1944 | Invasion of Southern France, 15 August to 25 September 1944 |
Vietnam War Campaigns |
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Campaign and Dates | Campaign and Dates |
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Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase II
1 to 10 January 1967 21 February to 24 March 1967 8 to 31 May 1967 | Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase V
8 August to 8 September 1968 19 September to 1 November 1968 |
Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase III
1 to 13 June 1967 8 August to 29 November 1967 20 to 29 January-1968 | Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase VI
2 to 15 November 1958 3 to 20 February 1969 |
Tet Counteroffensive
30 January to 9 March 1968 |
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USS LST-525 |
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1016052513 |
56k | Launching of LST-525, 20 December 1943, at Jeffersonville Boat & Machine Co., Jeffersonville, IN.
Jeffersonville Boat & Machine Co. photo |
Tommy Trampp | |
58k | USS LST-525 underway, date and location unknown. US Navy photo. |
Lloyd King | ||
79k | USS LST-525 off an unknown beachhead with bow doors open and ramp down. US Navy photo from "Allied Landing Craft and Ships of World War Two" by the US Division of Naval Intelligence. |
Robert Hurst | ||
52k | USS LST-525 moored, date and location unknown. | Larry Noble (XO PT-306, CO PT-313) and Joe Brannon (PT-305) | ||
40k | USS LST-525 moored at Oran, Algeria with two unidentified LSTs plus various other craft, date unknown. LST 525 piggy backed the PT boats to Oran, Algeria. | Larry Noble (XO PT-306, CO PT-313) and Joe Brannon (PT-305) | ||
1016052514 |
202k | USS ST-525 moored pierside, possibly at Oran, Algeria, date unknown. The LST on the right is one of these four LSTs, 60,601,602 or 603)
Luke Karolchyk LST-907 photo collection |
Mary Ann Karolchyk and Cheryl Brozovic on behalf of their father Luke Karolchyk LST-907 | |
114k | USS LST-525 moored at St. Tropez, France during the Invasion of Southern France, 15 August 1944. Photo taken from PT-304. Motor Machinist Mate Sam Pavlos with back to camera. | Debbie Pavlos | ||
1016052512 |
125k | USS LST-525 moored at NAB Little Creek, VA. while loading US Marine Corps vehicles in preparation for conducting amphibious exercises, date unknown. | David Upton | |
319k | Highline transfer between USS LST-525 and USS LST-1081 while underway enroute to Vieques Island, Puerto Rico in March 1954. Photo by Harold J. Leeper. | Tom Leeper for his father Harold J. Leeper ET3 USS LST-1081 | ||
USS Caroline County (LST-525) |
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241k | USS Caroline County(LST-525) in North Star Bay, Greenland with
LCU-654 loaded on her main deck, date unknown.
US National Archives Photo # 80-G-482996, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives. |
Mike Smolinski | ||
728k | USS Caroline County (LST-525) underway on the Cua Viet River, South Vietnam, 15 March 1967. The ship is loaded with cargo trucks. Caroline County was the first LST to dock at Cua Viet. The Cua Viet River Base was a center of American and ARVN defense of Northern I Corps, near the DMZ. Defense Imagery photo # DM-ST-85-09353 CUA VIET RIVER, South Vietnam (15 March 1967) a USMC photo by PFC Kenneth L. Fuller now in the collections of Defense Imagery.mil. |
Robert M. Cieri | ||
705k | USS Caroline County (LST-525) landing at Cua Viet with a load of cargo trucks, 15 March 1967. Carolina County was the first LST to dock at Cua Viet. LCU 1498 is visible in the background. Defense Imagery photo # DM-ST-85-09354 CUA VIET, South Vietnam (15 March 1967) a USMC photo by PFC Kenneth L. Fuller now in the collections of Defense Imagery.mil. |
Tom Leeper for his father Harold J. Leeper ET3 USS LST-1081 | ||
870k | USS Caroline County (LST-525) with her bow doors open while docked at Cua Viet, 15 March 1967. The ship brought ice cream to the Marines at Cua Viet to commemorate her visit. Defense Imagery photo # DM-ST-85-09355 CUA VIET, South Vietnam (15 March 1967) a USMC photo by PFC Kenneth L. Fuller now in the collections of Defense Imagery.mil. |
Robert M. Cieri | ||
117k | USS Caroline County (LST-525) moored outboard of USS Meeker County (LST-980) at Naval Station Guam in 1968. | Photo by Larry Roszkowiak |
Commanding Officers | ||
01 | . Stevens, James Rutledge, USN | 14 January 1944 - 12 August 1945 |
02 | LTjg. Shea, John J., USNR | 12 August 1945 - 12 February 1946 |
03 | LTjg. Smith, David P. USNR | 12 February 1946 - 2 June 1946 |
04 | LTjg. Garner, Bruce L., USNR | 2 June 1946 - 25 June 1946 |
Decommissioned | 25 June 1946 - 20 October 1950 | |
05 | LT. Volk, Austin N., USNR | 20 October 1950 - 26 November 1951 |
06 | LCDR. Plummer, Herbert A., USNR | 26 November 1951 - 24 December 1952 |
07 | LT. Moul III, Cornelius Ferris, USN (USNA 1945) | 24 December 1952 - 15 September 1954 |
Decommissioned | 15 September 1954 - 9 June 1966 | |
08 | LCDR. Holzhaeuser, Arthur Emil, USN | 9 June 1966 - 10 February 1968 |
09 | LT. Ryan, Kevin Thomas, USN (USNA 1960) | 10 February 1968 - 21 March 1969, Hull swap with USS LST-1126 |
10 | LT. Wilson Jr., James Alexander, USN | 21 March 1969 - 25 June 1969 |
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