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Harbor Utility Craft - YFU-23
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 Landing Craft Utility - LCU-979 (1956)
 Landing Craft Ship - LSU-979 (1949 - 1956)
 Landing Craft Tank - LCT(6)-979 (1944 - 1949)

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 (1) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
Landing Craft Tank (Mark 6) / YFU-1 Class Harbor Utility Craft:
  • Laid down, 11 December 1943, at Navy Yard, Mare Island, CA.
  • Launched, 11 February 1944
  • Delivered, 12 February 1944
  • Placed in service, date unknown
    ENS. D.E. Cochran, USNR Officer in Charge (from February 1944)
    ENS. Z.D. Lee Jr., USNR Executive Officer (from May 1944)
  • During World War II LCT(6)-979 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
    LCT Flotilla Nineteen
     LCT Group Forty-Four, LT. Paul E. Ross, USNR and participated in the following campaign:

    Asiatic-Pacific Campaign
    Campaign and Dates
    Western New Guinea operation
    Cape Sansapor operation, 16 to 31 August 1944

  • Following World War II LCT(6)-979 was assigned to Occupation Service in the Far East from 2 September 1945 to 9 April 1946
  • Placed out of service, date unknown
  • Laid up in reserve
  • Redesignated Landing Ship Utility LSU-979 in March 1949
  • Redesignated Landing Craft Utility LCU-979, 15 April 1956
  • Reclassified Harbor Utility Craft YFU-23, 18 May 1958
  • Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown
  • LCT(6)-979 earned one battle star for World War II service
  • 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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