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Landing Craft Tank
LCT(6)-1153

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):
  • Laid down, 10 May 1944, at Bison Shipbuilding Corp, North Tonawanda, N.Y.
  • Launched, 17 May 1944
  • Delivered, 22 May 1944
  • Placed in service, date unknown
  • During World War II LCT(6)-1153 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
    LCT Flotilla Sixteen, LCDR. C. P. Lewis, USNR;
     LCT Group Forty-Seven, LT. A. B. Reed, USNR and participated in the following campaign;

    Asiatic-Pacific Campaign
    Campaign and Dates
    Okinawa Gunto operation
    Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 26 March to 30 June 1945

  • Following World War II LCT(6)-1153 was assigned to Occupation service in the Far East from 2 September 1945 to 3 March 1946
  • Placed out of service, date unknown
  • Final Disposition, sunk off Iwo Jima by US Navy patrol aircraft by bombing, 14 April 1946
  • Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown
  • LCT(6)-1153 earned one battle star for World War II service
    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-950 40k LCT(6)-1153 loaded on the deck of USS LST-682 alongside USS LST(H)-950 while beached, probably, at Okinawa, circa March 1946. Louis Esposito Jr. for his father Louis Esposito USS LST-950
    LST-682 117k USS LST-682 under way with LCT(6)-1153 loaded on her main deck homeward bound, circa March 1946.
    Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo No. NH 83636, courtesy of D. M. McPherson, 1975.    		 Mike Green
    There is no DANFS history for LCT(6)-1153 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 26 January 2018