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Landing Craft Tank
LCT(6)-859

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - Philippines Liberation Medal
Landing Craft Tank (Mark 6):
  • Laid down, 27 December 1943, at Darby Products of Steel Plate Corp., Kansas City, KS.
  • Launched, 2 February 1944
  • Delivered, 11 February 1944
  • Placed in service, date unknown
  • During World War II LCT-859 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
    LCT Flotilla Thirty-One, LCDR. C.V. Dilley USNR
     LCT Group Ninety-One, LT. R.R. Muehlbach, USNR, and served at Leyte in the Philippines, Okinawa and Japan
  • Following World War II LCT(6)-859 was assigned to Occupation Service in the Far East from 3 September 1945 to 2 April 1946
  • Placed out of service, date unknown
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
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