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Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign |
Campaign and Dates |
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Invasion of southern France 15 August to 10 September 1944 |
Korean War Campaigns |
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Campaign and Dates | Campaign and Dates |
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Second Korean Winter
4 February to 1 March 1952 20 March to 1 April 1952 | Korean Defense Summer-Fall 1952
9 to 30 June 1952 31 July to 24 August 1952 |
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USS LST-692 |
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253k | USS LST-692 at anchor, date and location unknown. Note LCT-764 loaded on her main deck. | Joe Weber for his grandfather Erhardt R. Weber SC2/c USS LST-692 | ||
282k | LST's loading for the Invasion of Southern France at Nisida, Italy, 9 August 1944, just prior to the Southern France Operation. Ships present include (left to right):
USS LST-550;
USS LST-692;
USS LST-655. Note barrage balloons overhead.
US National Archives Photo # 80-G-258038, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives. |
US Naval History and Heritage Command | ||
18k | USS LST-692 unloading cargo across the beach, date and location unknown. | LST Home Port | ||
107k | USS LST-692 beached, in either southern France, Italy, or North Africa, date unknown. | Sue Bolen | ||
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304k | USS LST-692 towed LCT(5)-136 from Palermo, Sicily to Oran,
Algeria in 1945 where the LCT was loaded aboard LST-692 to be transported back to the United States, probably to New York.
LST-692 Cruise Book, 1945 page 29 |
David Upton | |
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290k | USS LST-692 crew photo 1945, location unknown.
John Harvey Family George Tate page 16 |
Cynthia Lancaster | |
58k | USS LST-692 at right, and USS LST-762 at left, beached at Marine Beach, San Diego - Coronado Strand, 17 June 1951. | LCDR. William B. Marty USN CO USS LST-762 | ||
57k | USS LST-692 at right, and USS LST-762 at left, beached at Marine Beach, San Diego - Coronado Strand, 17 June 1951. | LCDR. William B. Marty USN CO USS LST-762 | ||
70k | USS LST-692 underway off Point Loma, San Diego, CA., February 1953 | LCDR Bill Marty LST Div.Twelve embarked in USS Daviess County | ||
397k | USS LST-692 outbound to sea from San Diego, CA., date unknown.
US National Archives Photo # USN 1045692 from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command |
Mike Smolinski | ||
USNS Daviess County (T-LST-692) |
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137k | USNS Daviess County (T-LST-692) moored at the Chu Lai sand ramp as Seabees pour concrete, circa 1968. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine November 1964 |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret | ||
BRP Benguet (LT-507) |
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66k | Ex-USS LST-692 in Philippines naval service as BRP Benguet (LT-507) at A.G. & P. Shipyard, Bauan, Batangas Island, Philippine Islands, 30 July 1991. | Edison Sy | ||
146k | BRP Benguet (LT-507) at Keppel Batangas Shipyard, in Bauan, Batangas Island, Philippine Islands in 2000 | Edison Sy | ||
223k | BRP Benguet (LT-507) moored pierside Zamboanga Pier, City of Zamboanga, Island of Mindanao, Republic of the Philippines, 19 January 2009. | Robert Hurst | ||
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164k | An UH-1 Huey helicopter takes off from BRP Benguet (LT-507), in the Philippines, circa, 2000s.
Photo courtesy Defense,net |
Chin Yu Chu | |
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52k | BRP Benguet (LT-507) beached on a ramp at Mindanao Philippines unloads a LAD Scorpion Light Tank in 2010.
Photo courtesy Defense Studies |
Chin Yu Chu | |
61k | Philippine's Navy floating crane YU-207 loads a boat onto BRP Benguet (LT-507), 18 September 2013,
location unknown.
Image from Philippine Navy official Facebook page. Public Affairs Office, Philippine Navy. |
Robert Hurst | ||
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238k | BRP Benguet (LT-507) with her doors open beached on a ramp in the Philippines, 2014.
Photo courtesy Official Gazette |
Chin Yu Chu | |
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113k | BRP Benguet (LT-507) beached on a ramp at Sangley Point, Cavite, Philippines, 2014.
Photo courtesy Robert JA Basilio Jr. |
Chin Yu Chu | |
2114k | BRP Benguet (LT-507) moored pierside at Colorado Shipyard Cebu, Republic of the Philippines, 19 April 2015. Photo by Mike Baylon with permission. |
Edison Sy | ||
156k | One of ex-BRP Benguet (LT-507)'s LCVPs filled with scrap from the ship at a scrapping facility in the Philippines, July 2017. | Edison Sy |
BRP Benguet (LT-507) at Colorado Shipyard, Cebu Island, Republic of the Philippines, circa April-May, 2015. Photos by William B. Marty Jr. |
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Commanding Officers | ||
01 | LT. Carolthers, Robert B. USNR | 10 May 1944 - 31 August 1945 |
02 | LTjg. Chatelain, Gurley Paul, USN | 31 August 1945 - March 1946 |
03 | LTjg. Lowenstein, W. M., USNR | March 1946 - June 1946 |
04 | LT. Muenster, William R., USNR | June 1946 - 1 July 1946 |
Decommissioned | 1 July 1946 - 1951 | |
06 | LT. Remick, William Chadbourne | 1952 |
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