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USS LST-771

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Golf - Oscar - Sierra
NGOS

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Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)

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USS LST-771 was manned by the US Coast Guard during World War II

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During World War II USS LST-771 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
LST Flotilla Twenty-Nine, CAPT. C. H. Peterson USCG (25);
LST Group Eighty-Seven, CDR. E. Anderson USCG;
LST Division One Hundred-Seventy-Three and participated in the following campaign:

Asiatic-Pacific Campaign
Campaign and Dates
Okinawa Gunto operation Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 26 March to 7 June 1945

Following World War II USS LST-771 was assigned to Occupation service for the following periods:

Navy Occupation Service Medal
15 to 29 September 1945
12 November to 23 December 1945

Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 26 September 1947, to Boston Metals Co., Baltimore, MD.

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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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US Navy photo.

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Source
	186k	USS LST-771 outbound to sea, date and location unknown		Jim Kurrasch Battleship Iowa Pacific Battleship Center
1016077105	325k	An American soldier of the 10th Army's 77th Division is the first casualty of the assault on the Ryukyu Island chain. Wounded by a Japanese sniper on the beach of Aka Shima in the Keramas, he is carried aboard USS LST-771 The Aka Shima landing was six days before the Easter invasion of Okinawa. US National Archives Identifier 205586352, Local Identifier 26-G-4349, US Coast Guard photo # 4349		David Upton
	172k	USS LST-771 at anchor, probably at Kerama Rhetto, during the Okinawa Gunto campaign.		Kenneth R. Stone for his father James L. Stone, Cox. USS LST-771
	131k	USS LST-771 beached, probably at Kerama Rhetto, during the Okinawa Gunto campaign. Note the LVT on the beach.		Kenneth R. Stone for his father James L. Stone, Cox. USS LST-771
1016077106	23k	USS LST-771 coming alongside another vessel probably off Okinawa, date unknown.		tommy Trampp
1016077107	76k
	70k	One of USS LST-771 LCVPs being lowered into the water, date and location unknown.		Kenneth R. Stone for his father James L. Stone, Cox. USS LST-771

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USS LST-771
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)

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Commanding Officers
01	LT. Bracken, Robert O., USCG	18 October 1944 - 14 May 1946

Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves

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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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