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Landing Craft Tank
LCT(6)-1269

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive - Iwo Jima) - 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, 2 August 1944, at Quincy Barge Builders, Quincy, IL.
  • Launched, 14 September 1944
  • Delivered, 30 September 1944
  • Placed in service, date unknown, ENS. Frank Eddy, USNR, Officer-in-Charge (May 1945)
  • During World War II LCT(6)-1269 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
    LCT Flotilla Sixteen, LCDR C.P. Lewis USNR
     LCT Group Forty-Eight, LT. Robert T. Capeless, USNR at Iwo Jima and
    LCT Flotilla Twenty-Nine LCDR. E. D. Gasson USNR
     LCT Group Eighty-Five in the Marianas Islands from July 1945 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
  • Following World War II LCT(6)-1269 was assigned Occupation duty in the Far East from 8 September 1945 to 16 September 1947
  • Placed out of service, date unknown
  • Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown
  • LCT(6)-1269 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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    LST-792/LCT-1269 73k LCT(6)-1269 is beached in the middle distance, with USS LST-792 beyond her. Naval personal are building a causeway over the wrecks of several landing craft, on an Iwo Jima beach. The craft being covered over include a pair of LCVPs and a LVT amphibious tractor. Note the mobile cranes at work in the vicinity.
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-303923, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.    		 US Naval History and Heritage Command
    LST-792 102k From left to right; USS LST-792, USS LSM-49 and LCT(6)-1269 on the beach at Iwo Jima, circa February-March 1945. Note Mount Suribachi in the background.
    US Marine Corps photo.    		 Robert Morrissey
    There is no DANFS history available for LCT(6)-1269 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 5 December 2010