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Landing Craft Tank
LCT-1221

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from 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, 16 August 1944, at Bison Shipbuilding Corp, North Tonawanda, N.Y.
  • Launched, 27 August 1944
  • Delivered, 30 August 1944
  • Placed in service, date unknown, ENS. F.A. Beck USNR, Officer in Charge (May 1945)
  • During World War II LCT(6)-1221 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
    LCT Flotilla Thirty-Five, LCDR. W. C. Margetts USNR;
     LCT Group One Hundred Five, LT. G. H. Feldman USNR,
  • Following World War II LCT(6)-1221 was assigned to Occupation Service in the Far East from 2 September 1945 to 9 April 1946
  • Placed out of service, and laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Swan Island, Portland, Or. in 1946
  • 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-1019
    1016101901    		 138k USS LST-1019 with LCT(6)-1221 loaded on her main deck at anchor in San Francisco Bay, circa April-May 1946. LST-1019 had recently returned from the Asiatic-Pacific Theater. Note the Homeward Bound Pennant flying from the starboard yardarm. ©Jim Kelleher III for his father ENS. James H. Kelleher, USNR CO LST-1019
    LST-1019
    1018122101    		 178k LCT(6)-1221 being lifted and set down on the decommissioned LST-1072, by the 250 ton derrick barge Cairo, 6 August 1946, Swan Island, Portland, OR. One of twenty-two pairings of LCTs and LSTs for storage there.
    Photo from the "Oregonian" (Portland Oregon) newspaper, Wed. Aug. 7, 1946 page 24.    		 David Upton
    There is no history for LCT(6)-1221 available at NavSource
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information Web Sites
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
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    World War II LCT Flotillas
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