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Landing Craft Tank
LCT(6)-860

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive - Iwo Jima)
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal
Landing Craft Tank (Mark 6) Class:
  • Laid down, 4 January 1944, at Derby Products of Steel Plate Corp., Kansas City, KS.
  • Launched, 7 February 1944
  • Delivered, 16 February 1944
  • Placed in service, date unknown, ENS. R. A. Shipe USNR, Officer in Charge 18 December 1944 - May 1945
  • During World War II LCT-680 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
    At Pearl Harbor
     LCT Flotilla Twenty One
     LCT Group Sixty-One
     In the Marianas Islands in July 1945
     LCT Flotilla Twenty-Nine
     LCT Group Eight-Five
     At Iwo Jima
     LCT Flotilla Sixteen
     LST Group Forty-Eight and participated in the following campaign:

    Asiatic-Pacific Campaign
    Campaign and Dates
    Okinawa Gunto operation
    Assault and occupation of Iwo Jima, 2 to 16 March 1945

  • LCT(6)-860 reached Iwo Jima, 16 February 1945 transported by USS LST-790
  • Launched, from USS LST-790, 24 February 1945
  • Placed out of service, date unknown
  • Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown
  • 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-869 299k LCT(6)-860 beached at Iwo Jima, 16 February 1945 (D+1). David Fredrick for his father Frank J Fredrick SC2/c LCT-860
    LCT-869 290k LCT(6)-860 beached at Iwo Jima, circa February-March 1945. David Fredrick for his father Frank J Fredrick SC2/c LCT-860
    LCT-869 336k LCT(6)-860 beached at Iwo Jima while off loading vehicles, circa February-March 1945. David Fredrick for his father Frank J Fredrick SC2/c LCT-860
    LCT-869 256k LCT Six Flotilla Sixteen Letter of Commendation to all LCTs of Group 48 of which LCT(6)-860 was assigned. David Fredrick for his father Frank J Fredrick SC2/c LCT-860
    LCT-869 316k LCT(6)-860 enlisted crew members, Christmas in the Pacific, 1945. Crew members are identified on the back of the photo as: Saylor, Devaney , Jenning , Bevan, (Frank J.) Fredrick , Sal, Davis. David Fredrick for his father Frank J Fredrick SC2/c LCT-860
    LCT-860
    1018086006    		 33k LCT(6)-860 full crew, date and location unknown Tim Shipe for his father ENS. Robert A. Shipe, Officer in Charge LCT-860
    There is no history for LCT(6)-860 available at NavSource
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information Web Sites
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    ENS Shipe's orders to assume duty as Office in Charge of LCT(6)-860
    World War II LCT Flotillas
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