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Landing Craft Tank
LCT(6)-1035

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 (1)
Bottom Row- World War II Victory Medal - Philippines Presidential Unit Citation - Philippines Liberation Medal (1)
Personal Awards

Purple Heart (ENS. Robert L. Blans, Wayne J. Pollard, QM/2c,; James A. Hilton, S/1c; Jack Earl Wicks, S/2c) Lingayen Gulf, 9 January 1945
Landing Craft Tank (Mark 6):
  • Laid down, 15 March 1944, at Bison Shipbuilding Corp, North Tonawanda, N.Y.
  • Launched, 26 March 1944
  • Delivered and placed in service, 13 April 1944, ENS. EnSign Robert L. Blans, Officer in Charge (Lingayen Gulf)
  • During World War II LCT(6)-1035 and was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
    LCT Flotilla Twenty-Two
     LCT Group Sixty-Six and
    LCT Group Sixty-Five, LT. L.R. Carson, USNR
     LCT Division One Hundred Thirty, LT. Black, Kenneth L. USNR and participated in the following campaign;

    Asiatic-Pacific Campaign
    Campaign and Dates
    Luzon operation
    Lingayen Gulf landings, 4 to 18 January 1945
  • Lingayen Gulf landing Battle Damage - two near misses from mortar shells spraying port bow and starboard quarter with shrapnel. one direct hit aft from mortar shell on the centerline, causing numerous shrapnel holes in pilot house and galley.
  • Lingayen Gulf landing Casualties: Killed - 3 Army personnel, Wounded - 4 Navy and 10 Army Personnel
  • Placed out of service, date unknown
  • Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown
  • LCT(6)-1035 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.
    three propellers, 675shp
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    LCT-1036
    1018103601    		 239k From left to right; LCT(6)-1035 partially obscured by LCT(6)-1036 (center) and on the right LCT(6)-1037 partially obscured by a tank coming ashore, 9 January 1945 at around 1008 hours. Enemy mortars can't stop the flow of American armor onto the beaches of Lingayen Gulf as the invasion of Luzon gets under way. The tanks roared ashore heading for the broad highways to Manila.
    US National Archives Identifier 205585597, Local Identifier 26-G-3839, US Coast Guard Photo # 26-G-3839 by US Coast Guard photographer Winterbolton.    		 David Upton
    There is no history for LCT(6)-1035 available at NavSource
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information Web Sites
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    USS LCT(6) Group 66 War Diary - January 1945
    USS LCT(6) Group 66 War Diary - May 1945
    USS LCT(6) Group 66 War Diary - August 1945
    USS LCT(6) Group 66 War Diary - September 1945
    World War II LCT Flotillas
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