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Landing Craft Tank
LCT(6)-1074

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Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (2 - Terragona, Leyte Gulf, 10 December 1944 - Lingayen Gulf, 9 to 14 January 1945) - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2)
Bottom Row - World War II Victory Medal - Philippines Presidential Unit Citation - Philippines Liberation Medal (2)

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During World War II LCT(6)-1074 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
LCT Flotilla Twenty-Two;
LCT Group Sixty-Six, LT. E. L. Huie and participated in the following campaigns:

Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
Leyte operation Leyte landings, 9 December 1944	Luzon operation Lingayen Gulf landings, 9 to 18 January 1945

Final Disposition, fate unknown

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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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Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Contributed By
	232k	LCT(6)-1071, LCT(6)-1074 and LCT(6)-1292 and other LCTs moored at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA., 20 May 1944. This is a cropped image from a photo of USS Pensacola(CA-24) departing Mare Island, 20 May 1944.		Thomas Rickels for his father ENS. Gerald H. Rickels OinC LCT-1071
	173k	LCT(6)-1074 under way at Jautefa Bay, New Guinea in September 1944. Photo from the Frank S. Ford estate.		Brian Miller
	28k	Task Unit 76.4.10 LCTs, 10 December 1944, approaching Dulag, Leyte Island, P.I. Task Unit 76.4.10 consisting of; LCT(6)-1039, LCT(6)-1072, LCT(6)-1074, LCT(6)-1038, LCT(6)-1068, LCT(6)-1067, LCT(6)-716, LCT(6)-717, LCT(6)-718, LCT(6)-722, LCT(6)-724, LCT(6)-725, LCT(6)-1071, LCT(6)-1073 and LCT(6)-1075. Task Unit 76.4.10 departed Hollandia, 3 December 1944 and launched from LSD's in San Pedro Bay, 9 December 1944 to deliver companies of the US Army's 542 Engineers, Boat and Shore Regiment.		Photo taken by Bernard L. DeNoma (signalman) LCT-725 and submitted by John S. DeNoma

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There is no history record for LCT(6)-1074 available at Navsource.

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Crew Contact And Reunion Information Web Sites
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
World War II LCT Flotillas

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USS LCT(6) Group 66 War Diaries and Action Report: December 1944 January 1945 February 1945 USS LCT(6) Group 66 Action Report - Bataan - Corregidor Operation - 18 February 1945 March 1945 April 1945 May 1945 June 1945 July 1945 August 1945 September 1945

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