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Landing Craft Tank
LCT(6)-532

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive, 6 June 1944, Invasion of Normandy)
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal
Landing Craft Tank (Mark 6) Class:
  • Laid down, 20 August 1943, at Bison Shipbuilding Corp, North Tonawanda, N.Y.
  • Launched, 5 September 1943
  • Delivered, 24 September 1943
  • During World War II LCT(6)-532 was assigned to the Europe-Africa-Middle East Theater, LCT Flotilla Four, LCDR Louis E. Hubbard, and participated in the following campaign:

    Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign
    Campaign and Dates
    Invasion of Normandy, 6 to 25 June 1944
  • Placed out of service, date unknown
  • Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown
  • LCT(6)-532 earned one battle star for World War II service
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown

    Displacement 143 to 160 t.(lt), 309 to 320 t.(fl)
    Length 119' 1" (ovl.)
    Beam 32' 8"
    Draft
    limiting 3' 9"
    maximum navigation 5'
    Speed 10 kts.
    Range 700 nautical miles at 7 kts.
    Complement
    1 officer
    12 enlisted
    Cargo Capacity 150 short tons
    Armament
    two single 20mm AA gun mounts
    four .50 cal. machine guns
    Armor
    wheelhouse 20lbs
    gun shields 10lbs
    Fuel Capacity Diesel 80 Bbls
    Propulsion
    three Grey Marine 6-71 Diesel engines
    two Diesel-drive 10Kw 120V. D.C.
    three propellers, 675shp
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    LCT-532 102k LCT(6)-532 loading vehicles from an LST off the Normandy beachhead, June 1944.
    US Navy photo    		 Philippe Gonzales
    LCT-532
    1018053203    		 149k LCT(6)-532 off Utah Beach Area, Normandy, 10 July 1944.
    Frame from the short film "155MM Howitzer Firing, Cerisy Le Foret, France; Army and Divisional Military Police, Cherbourg to St Lo, France" National Archives ID 15480. Local ID 111-ADC-1673.    		 David Upton
    LCT-532 66k LCT(6)-532 underway, 1 November 1944. The ship is carrying Royal Marine Commandos to Walcheren Island at Westkapelle, Netherlands during the final phase of the area's liberation.
    Imperial War Museum Admiralty Official Collection, by McNeill, M.H.A. (Lt), Photo No. © IWM (A 26276)    		 Mike Green
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