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Landing Craft Tank
LCT(6)-1154

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive, Iwo Jima)
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal
Landing Craft Tank (Mark 6):
  • Laid down, 11 May 1944, at Bison Shipbuilding Corp, North Tonawanda, N.Y.
  • Launched, 22 May 1944
  • Delivered, 24 May 1944, and placed in service, ENS. M.S. Eiken, USNR, Officer-in-Charge
  • During World War II LCT(6)-1154 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
    LCT Flotilla Sixteen, LCDR C.P. Lewis USNR:
     LCT Group Forty-Eight, LT. Robert T. Capeless USNR
     LCT Division Seventy-Five at Iwo Jima and participated in the following campaign:

    Asiatic-Pacific Campaign
    Campaign and Dates
    Iwo Jima operation
    Assault and occupation of Iwo Jima, 19 February to 16 March 1945

  • LCT(6)-1154 was struck by enemy fire at Iwo Jima, but was repaired and placed back in service
  • Following World War II LCT(6)-1154 performed occupation duty at Iwo Jima until placed out of service in April 1946
  • Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown
  • LCT(6)-1154 earned one battle star for World War II service
  • Final Disposition, sunk off Iwo Jima by US Navy patrol aircraft by bombing, 14 April 1946
    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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    LCT-1154
    1018115402    		 30k LCT(6)-1154 on the beach with two additional LCTs at Tinian Island, Mariana Islands, date unknown
    Photo from www.flickr.com by SDASM Archives [ San Diego Air & Space Museum ]    		 John Spivey
    LCT-632
    1018063203    		 230k Right to left; LCT(6)-632, LCT(6)-692 and LCT(6)-1154 unload supplies along the shore of Iwo Jima, 25 March 1945.
    US National Archives Identifier 204982585, Local Identifier 342-FH-3A42489-70332AC, US Army Air Corps Photo 70332A.C.    		 David Upton
    LCT-1154
    1018115401    		 8636k LCT(6)-1154, USS LSM-140 and USS LST-715 unloading supplies on the beach of embattled Iwo Jima among the wreckage left by the furious fighting, February 1945.
    US National Archives Identifier 205585179, a US Navy now in the collections of the US National Archives.    		 David Upton
    LCT-632
    1018063204    		 275k LCTs on the beach at Iwo Jima, from the left to right;
    LCT(6)-692,
    LCT(6)-1245,
    LCT(6)-630, (off shore),
    LCT(6)-632,
    LCT(6)-1154, and
    LCT(6)-1300, all assigned, except LCT-630, to LCT(6) Group 48 Flot. 16, Transport Group Charlie on the beach at Iwo Jima, between February 25 and March 2 1945.
    Ref. GR 48 War Diary Feb-Mar. 1945 NA. National Archives Identifier 204982588, Local ID 342-FH-3A42490-A70332AC, US Army Air Corps Photo A-70332A.C.    		 David Upton
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