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Landing Craft Tank
LCT(6)-575

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 - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
Landing Craft Tank (Mark 6):
  • Laid down, 31 May 1943, at Pidgeon-Thomas Iron Co., Memphis, Tennessee
  • Launched, 27 July 1943
  • Delivered, 29 August 1943
  • During World War II LCT(6)-575 was assigned to the Asiatic Pacific Theater:
    LCT Flotilla Thirty-Eight;
    LCT Group One Hundred-Twelve
  • Following World War II LCT(6)-575 was assigned Occupation Service in the Far East from 28 October 1945 to 25 February 1946
  • Placed out of service
  • Final Disposition, scuttled off Iwo Jima in February 1946
    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-575
    1018057501    		 450k LCT(6)-575 beached at Guadalcanal, date unknown.
    Frame from the film "Miscellaneous Scenes, Okinawa, Ryukyu, Tulagi and Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands", National Archives ID 17623, Local ID 111-ADC-3820. Dept.of the Army    		 David Upton
    LCT-575
    1018057502    		 186k LCT(6)-575,26 May 1944, Bougainville Island. Eighty men and six armored halftracks of the U.S. Army 21st Reconnaissance Troop (Mechanized), American Division embarked on board LCT(6)-575. The first part of the operation LCT(6)-575 disembarked these troops and equipment on the beach south of Reini River. The troops and equipment were later transferred by the LCT from the original landing point and disembarked near the Tekessi River. The patrol directed 3-Inch, 40mm, 37mm and .50 calibure fire to the south of Tekessi in conjunction with Army artillery fire from the Magine Islands. The patrol discovered three abandoned coastal gun emplacements near the Tekessi River and captured four natives and one chief who were returned to the base for questioning. Cover was provided by USS LCI(L)-24.
    Photos from World War II Operations Reports; American Division: 6-00 pages 558-567. Photos uncredited. National Archives Identifier (NAID 403377615). Auto colorized for detail.     		David Upton
    LCT-575
    1018057503    		 248k
    LCT-575
    1018057504    		 269k
    LCT-575
    1018057505    		 290k
    LCT-575
    1018057506    		 259k
    LCT-575
    1018057507    		 296k
    LCT-575
    1018057508    		 373k
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