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Landing Craft Tank
LCT(6)-545

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive)
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, 13 September 1943, at Bison Shipbuilding Corp, North Tonawanda, N.Y.
  • Launched, 26 September 1943
  • Delivered, 21 October 1943
  • During World War II LCT(6)-545 was assigned to the Europe-Africa-Middle East Theater, LCT Flotilla Nineteen, LCDR Pruet, 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
  • Laid up in at Green Cove Springs, in the St John River FL. Reserve Fleet
  • Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown
  • LCT(6)-545 earned one battle star for world War II service
  • Registered in 1949 by Grannis, Thompson & Street Co. Charlotte, N.C. as freighter No. 545 homeported at Charleston, S.C.
  • Registered in 1951 by Charles P. Ballinger, Jr. Greenville, S.C.
  • Operated in 1952 under the Honduran flag
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    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. Ships' Service Generators
    three propellers, 675shp
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    LCT-545
    1018054501    		 258k Replacement troops disembark from LCT(6)-545 at Normandy across a floating causeway on their way to a replacement center where they are classified.
    US National Archives Identifier 176888068, a US Army Signal Corps photo 191535-S    		 David Upton
    LCT-602 75k LCT(6)-545, and LCT(6)-602 nested at Green Cove Springs, St. John River Reserve Fleet, FL., 1946. CDR. Michael G. Kapnas, USNR Ret (OIC LCT(6)-602 and LCT(6)-538, 1945-46)
    There is no DANFS history for LCT(6)-545 available at NavSource
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information Web Sites
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
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    World War II LCT Flotillas
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