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USS LST-564


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Echo - Victor - India
 NEVI
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 (3) - World War II Victory Medal
Bottom Row - Navy Occupation Medal (with Asia clasp) - Philippines Presidential Unit Citation - Philippine Liberation Medal (2)
 Personnel Awards

two Purple Hearts (9 January 1945, Lingayen Gulf)
LST-542 Class Tank Landing Ship:
  • Laid down, 5 March 1944, at Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Co., Evansville, IN.
  • Launched, 4 May 1944
  • Commissioned USS LST-564, 25 May 1944, LT. Richard E. Sankey, USNR, in command
  • During World War II USS LST-564 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater;
    LST Flotilla Sixteen for Philippines campaigns and for the Okinawa Gunto operation USS LST-564 was assigned to:
    LST Flotilla Fourteen, CAPT. E. Seay (24) USN;
     LST Group Forty-One, CDR. E. C. Parsons USNR;
     LST Division Eighty-Two

    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Leyte operations
    Leyte landings, 20 October 1944     		Okinawa Gunto operations
    Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 1 April 7 June 1945
    Luzon operations
    Lingayen Gulf landing, 9 January 1945
    "On the first day assault, landing under fire on the beach,
    we received two purple hearts for the wounded and approximately
    ten army personal were wounded."
    Richard Thompson USS LST-564
    		 

  • Following World War II USS LST-564 was assigned to Occupation service in the Far East from 15 October to 5 November 1945
  • Decommissioned, 8 March 1946
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 May 1946
  • USS LST-564 earned three battle stars for World War II service
  • Final Disposition, sold, 31 December 1948, to Brown and Root, Inc., Houston, TX., 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-564
    1016056401    		 152k USS LST-564 LST-564 probably in convoy to Okinawa, July 1945
    LST FLOT 16 War Diary, National Archives.
    Frame image from short film named "Activities Aboard LST at Sea and on Beach", U.S. Navy Department. National Archives ID 79357. Local ID 428-NPC-12553    		 David Upton
    USS LST-564
    Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)
    Commanding Officers
    01LT. Sankey, Richard E., USNR25 May 1944 - May 1945
    02LT. Baldwin, A. T., USNRMay 1945 - October 1945
    03LTjg. Imhof, Howard E., USNROctober 1945 - February 1946
    04LTjg. Prendergast, Richard J., USNRFebruary 1946 - 8 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
    The USS LST Ship Memorial
    LST Home Port
    State LST Chapters
    United States LST Association
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