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USS Dunn County (LST-742)
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USS LST-742 (1950 - 1955)
USAT LST-742 (1946 - 1950)
USS LST-742 (1944 - 1946)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Golf - Echo - Lima
NGEL

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Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons




Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive, 15 December 1944)
Second Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (3) - World War II Victory Medal
Third Row - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - National Defense Service Medal - Korea Service Medal (5)
Fourth Row - Philippine Liberation Medal - United Nations Korea Service Medal - Republic of Korea War Service Medal (retroactive)

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During World War II USS LST-742 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
LST Flotilla Eight, CAPT. E. Watts, USN;
LST Group Twenty-Three, CDR. T.C. Linthicum, USN;
LST Division Forty-Six and participated in the following campaigns:

Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
Luzon operation Lingayen Gulf landings, 4 to 18 January 1945	Borneo operations Tarakan Island operation, 27 April to 5 May 1945
Consolidation and capture of the Southern Philippines Mindoro Island landing, 15 December 1944 Visayan Island landings, 18 March and 29 March to 3 April 1945

During the Korean War USS LST-742 participated in the following campaigns:

Korean War Campaigns
Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
North Korean Aggression 18 September to 2 November 1950	First UN Counter Offensive 13 February to 7 March 1951
Communist China Aggression 3 November 1950 to 19 January 1951	Second Korean Winter 11 January to 29 February 1952
Inchon Landing 15 to 17 September 1950

Final Disposition, sold to Zidell Explorations, Inc., of Portland, OR., 6 September 1961 for scrapping

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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
	140k	Navy ships fighting fires on USS LST-742, after she was hit by a Kamikaze off the Mindoro landing beaches, 15 December 1944. Photographed from on board USS PCE-851. The bow of USS O'Brien (DD-725) is at right, with fire fighting parties spraying water on the burning ship. USS Hopewell (DD-681) is seen nearly bow-on in the center background, largely shrouded by smoke. O'Brien is painted in Camouflage Measure 32, Design 9D. US Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo # NH 103030, Collection of Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid.		Mike Green
1016074206	111k	USS LST-742 beached with US Army tug LT-531 alongside, date and location unknown.		Tommy Trampp
	67k	USS LST-742 at Morotai, 1 June 1945, while loading trucks, troops and cargo enroute to North Borneo and "Operation Oboe 6." Australian War Memorial photo # 108412.		Australian War Memorial
	59k	USS LST-742 and USS LST-590 at Labuan Island, 13 June 1945, while unloading trucks and cargo across pontoon causeways. Australian War Memorial photo # 109133.		Australian War Memorial
	137k	USS LST-742 on 13 October 1950 at Wolmi-Do Island, Inchon Harbor, loading supplies for the upcoming Wonsan invasion. Note that the ship is high and dry at low tide. US National Archives photo # 80-G-421526, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives		Fred Weiss
	514k	USS LST-742 underway circa 1950s, location unknown. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH-96878		Mike Smolinski
	98k	USS LST-742 under way date and location unknown. US Navy photo

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USS LST-742
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)

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Commanding Officers
01	LT. Holmes, Warren W., USNR	23 May 1944 - December 1945
02	LTjg. Johnson, Victor M., USNR	December 1945 - 13 April 1946
	Decommissioned	13 April 1946 - 1 September 1950
03	LT. Anderson, Douglas J.	1953 - ?
04	LT/LCDR. McClendon, Hoyt, USN	1955 - 14 June 1967
05	LT. Lacy, James Ernest, USN	14 June 1957 - 1 December 1959
06	LT. Ricardo, Benny Joe, USN	1 December 1959 - 6 February 1961

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
The USS LST Ship Memorial
LST Home Port
State LST Chapters
United States LST Association

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