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USS LST-760

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Golf - Hotel - Uniform
NGHU

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive, Iwo Jima) - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)

USS LST-760 was manned by the US Coast Guard during World War II

LST-542 Class Tank Landing Ship:

Laid down, 15 June 1944, at American Bridge Co., Ambridge, PA.

Launched, 3 August 1944

Commissioned USS LST-760, 28 August 1944, LT. Raphael T. A. McKenzie, USCGR, in command

During World War II USS LST-760 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
LST Flotilla Twenty-Nine, CAPT. C. H. Peterson USCG (25);
LST Group Eighty-Five, CDR. Millington, W. B. USCG (32);
LST Division One Hundred Sixty-Nine and participated in the following campaigns:

Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
Iwo Jima operation Assault and occupation of Iwo Jima, 19 to 26 February 1945	Okinawa Gunto operation Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 1 April to 10 June 1945

Following World War II USS LST-760 was assigned to Occupation service in the Far East for the following periods:

Navy Occupation Service Medal
9 to 25 September 1945
12 October to 1 November 1945
18 November to 8 December 1945

Decommissioned, 24 May 1946

Struck from the Naval Register, 3 July 1946

USS LST-760 earned two battle stars for World War II service

Final disposition, sold for scrapping, 29 May 1948, to Bethlehem Steel Co., Bethlehem, PA.

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

US Coast Guard photo # 215-6

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
	16k	USS LST-760 beached on a LST ramp, date and location unknown.	Paul Burket USS LSM-341
1016076003	81k	USS LST-760 off the beachhead at Iwo Jima, February 1945.	Courtesy Hyperwar.com
	88k	From top to bottom USS LST-808, USS LST-788, USS LST-760, USS LST-724 and *LSM-264* beached at the foot of Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, 24 February 1945. Note that the ships keep their propellers turning over to hold themselves in position. In the water is a DUKW and an LCPR; in the surf and on the beach are LVT's, DUKW's, trucks, bulldozers, and a crawler crane. Trucks at the right are towing 105mm howitzers inland from USS LST-724. US Navy photos #'s S-193-1	USS LSM / LSMR Association
	154k	From top to bottom USS LST-779, USS LST-808**, USS LST-788, USS LST-760, USS LST-724 and LSM-264** beached at the foot of Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, 25 February 1945. US Navy photo # S-193-A2.	Robert O. Baumrucker, 1978 to the USS LSM / LSMR Association
1016076004	229k	USS LST-760 beachhed at Iwo Jima during the Assault and occupation campaign in February - March 1945. US National Archives Identifier # 74241742	David Upton
1016076005	296k	USS LST-760 beachhead at Iwo Jima during the Assault and occupation campaign in February - March 1945. A bulldozer is being used to lay out folded steel matting on the beach. US National Archives Identifier # 32607107 (WWII CmdFile_71_11_Page_078)	David Upton
1016076002	134k	USS LST-760 off the beachead at Okinawa with a pontoon causeway strapped to her port side., circa April 1945. Original Coast Guard caption reads "Jap plane scores direct hit on Marine ammunition dump."	Raymond Cvetovich, Ph.D

USS LST-760
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)

Commanding Officers
01	LT. McKenzie, R. T. A., USCGR	28 August 1944 - 5 November 1945
02	LT. Parks, Littleton, W., USCGR	5 November 1945 - 11 March 1946
03	LTjg. Hough, Fred R., USN	11 March 1946 - 27 March 1946
04	LT. Jackson, Martin L., USN	27 March 1946 - 24 May1946


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