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Landing Craft Tank
LCT-1049

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, 4 April 1944, at Bison Shipbuilding Corp, North Tonawanda, N.Y. Delivered, 19 April 1944, disassembled
  • Assembled and Placed in Service, date unknown
  • During World War II LCT(6)-1049 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
    LCT Flotilla Twenty-One , LCDR. W.B. Gillette USNR;
     LCT Group Sixty-One, LT. J. Finkelstein, USNR at Pearl Harbor in 1944 and
    LCT Flotilla Thirty-Four in 1945
  • Following World War II LCT-1049 performed Occupation duty in the Far East from 2 September 1945 to 1 September 1946
  • 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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    LST-916
    1016091605    		 305k Aerial view of USS LST-916 underway in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of North Carolina, 5 July 1944. LST-916 is carrying three disassembled LCTs on her deck, LCT-1049, LCT-1158 and LCT-1159. The LCTs were unloaded in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and assembled by their crews before beginning active service.
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-241154, a US Navy photo taken by an airship assigned to ZP-12 out of Weeksville, N.C.    		 Rick Davis
    LSM-220
    101422001    		 9560k LCT's unloading at Yellow Beach, Okinawa, 13 April 1945. From left to right;
    LCT-1415,
    LCT-1175,
    LCT-1265 and
    LCT-1049.
    With USS LSM-220,
    USS LST-1000 and
    LCT-418 standing off the beach and in the middle distance in the center
    USS LSM-84 and
    USS SC-1281 are just visible.
    US National Archives Identifier 205586456 Local ID 26-G-4426, US Coast Guard photo # 4426.    		 David Upton
    There is no DANFS history record for LCT-1049 available at Navsource
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information Web Sites
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    World War II LCT Flotillas
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    Last Updated 27 August 2021