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USS LST-787

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Golf - Yankee - Echo
NGYE

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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-Iwo Jima) - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)

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USS LST-787 was manned by the US Coast Guard during World War II

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During World War II USS LST-787 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
LST Flotilla Twenty-Nine, CAPT. C. H. Peterson USCG (25);
LST Group Eighty-Five, CDR. W. B. Millington, USCG (32);
LST Division One Hundred Seventy and participated in the following campaigns:

Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
Iwo Jima operation Assault and occupation of Iwo Jima, 19 to 28 February 1945	Okinawa Gunto operation Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 2 April to 29 June 1945

Following World War II USS LST-787 was assigned to Occupation and China service in the Far East for the following periods:

Navy Occupation Service Medal
2 September to 10 October 1945
29 October to 9 November 1945

Final Disposition, sold, 7 May 1948, to the Bethlehem Steel Co., Bethlehem, PA 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		Contributed By
1016078704	275k	Aboard USS LST-787 a Coast Guard sailer leads his fellow Coast Guardsmen and Marines in singing hymns while gathered on the main deck of the ship. 18 February 1945, the day before the invasion of Iwo Jima begins. US National Archives Identifier 205585085, Local Identifier 26-G-4057, US Coast Guard Photo # 4057. Photo by Shepard.		David Upton
	16k	USS LST-787 beached at Iwo Jima while Marines unload their equipment, circa 19 to 28 February 1945.		Paul Burket LSM-341
1016078705	212k	USS LST-787 beached at Iwo Jima, D+10, 28 February 1945. From "COMTASKFOR 51 Photographic report of the Iwo Jima, Bonin Is. Operation" page 86. NARA catalog ID 4697018.		David Upton
	82k	Iwo Jima Operation, 1945. LSTs, LSMs and other amphibious shipping off Iwo Jima, with LVTs and landing craft forming up to head for the beach. LSTs in the foreground are USS LST-787 (bottom, center) and USS LST-789 (left center). The latter has LCT-901 embarked. Photograph received by the Naval Photo Science Laboratory, Washington, D.C., 8 March 1945. US National Archives Photo # 80-G-303099, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.		US Naval History and Heritage Command
1016078703	246k	USS LST-787 off the fire-swept beaches of Iwo Jima known as Hell's Acre, 19 February 1945. Amtracks loaded with Marines emerge from the tank deck of LST-787 at right, and surge toward the beachhead. US National Archives Identifier 205585121, Local Identifier 26-G-4058, US Coast Guard Photo # 4058.		David Upton
1016016602	5907k	From left to right; the bow of USS LSM-166, USS LSM-33, Unknown LST, USS LST-166 (next to an unknown LST), USS LST-787 off Okinawa. The pillars of smoke are from two Japanese planes shot down during and air attack on the Okinawa invasion fleet, circa April 1945. National Archives Identifier 205586498, Local Identifier 26-G-4438, US Coast Guard Photo # 4438 by US Coast Guard photographer Cepheus Martin.		David Upton
101413518	293k	USS LSM-135, and USS LST-787 unloading equipment of the 318th Fighter Group at Ie Shima, Ryukyu Islands, 29 April 1945. Driving Jeep Is Cpl. Giles N. Ragsdale, Malden, Missouri, 19th Fighter Squadron, 318Th Fighter Group.		David Upton

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USS LST-787
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)

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Commanding Officers
01	LT. Lawrence, William S. USCGR	13 September 1944 - 29 January 1946
02	LT. Ramstad, Andrew G. USCG	29 January 1946 - 27 May 1946

Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves

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Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
The USS LST Ship Memorial
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State LST Chapters
United States LST Association

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