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Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns |
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Campaign and Dates | Campaign and Dates |
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Iwo Jima operation
Assault and occupation of Iwo Jima, 20 to 28 February 1945 | Okinawa Gunto operation
Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 17 April to 7 June 1945 |
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1016094402 | 402k | from left to right;
USS LST-944,
USS LST-477 and
USS LST-795 moored Naval Station Pearl Harbor between 8 December 1944 and 22 January 1945 undergoing training during the build up for Operation Detachment, the Assault and
Occupation of Iwo Jima in February 1945.
TimeLife_Image_115948783, by W. Eugene Smith. For personal non-commercial use only. |
David Upton | |
1016072407 | 350k | from left to right;
LCT-1245,
USS LST-724,
USS LST-944,
USS LST-477 and
USS LST-795 moored Naval Station Pearl Harbor between 8 December 1944 and 22 January 1945 undergoing training during the build up for Operation Detachment, the Assault and
Occupation of Iwo Jima in February 1945.
TimeLife_Image_115948775, by W. Eugene Smith. For personal non-commercial use only. |
David Upton | |
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2336k | Six LSTs loading for their next combat operation moored at Naval Station Pearl Harbor, between 8 December 1944
and 22 January 1945. From left to right;
USS LST-609, with an LCT loaded on her main deck (Manila Bay-Bicol operations) USS LST-790,with an LCT loaded on her main deck (Invasion of Iwo Jima) USS LST-641, with LCT(6)-1300 loaded on her main deck (Invasion of Iwo Jima) USS LST-944, (Invasion of Iwo Jima) USS LST-84, (Invasion of Iwo Jima) and USS LST-648, with LCT(6)-1404 loaded on her main deck (Invasion of Iwo Jima) and with an LCI alongside. TimeLife_Image_115948783, 11548889 and 115948888, by W. Eugene Smith. For personal non-commercial use only. |
David Upton | |
1016060902 TL 11548889 |
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1016060903 TL 115948888. |
533k | |||
29k | USS LST-944 beached on Yellow Beach at Iwo Jima, 23 March 1945. USS Zuni (ATF-95) is alongside assisting USS LST-944 in holding her position on the beach. USS LST-944 had either one of both of her engines out of commission at the time. | The Tamaroa Maritime Foundation | ||
327k | Ten LSTs moored at the Yonabaru Pier, Okinawa, 23 July 1945. From right to left: USS LST-819, USS LST-879, USS LST-681, USS LST-926, USS LST-944, ? USS LST-715, USS LST-918, USS LST-871, ? ? US Navy photo 21st USNCB Neg. No. 204. |
Donn Cuson | ||
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98k | Nine LSTs including (from left to right)
USS LST-820,
USS LST-926,
USS LST-944 and
USS LST-931 moored at Okinawa in 1945.
FLICKR photoliberian |
John Spivey |
Commanding Officers | ||
01 | LT. Floyd, Joseph Harry, USNR | 4 December 1944 - September 1945 |
02 | LTjg. Ritter, Byron Eugene, USNR | September 1945 - 9 December 1945 |
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