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Landing Craft Tank
LCT(6)-1404

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, 22 August 1944, at Pidgeon-Thomas Iron Co., Memphis, TN.
  • Launched, 19 September 1944
  • Delivered, 30 September 1944
  • Placed in service, date unknown, ENS. J.A. Moran, USNR, Officer-in-Charge (May 1945)
  • During World War II LCT(6)-1404 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
    LCT Flotilla Sixteen, LCDR. C.P. Lewis, USNR;
     LCT Group Forty-Eight, LT. R.T. Capeless, USNR and participated in the following campaign:

    Asiatic-Pacific Campaign
    Campaign and Dates
    Iwo Jima operation
    Assault and occupation of Iwo Jima, 2 to 16 March 1945

  • LCT(6)-1404 also served at Ulithi and Saipan in August 1944
  • Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown
  • LCT(6)-1404 received 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-609
    1016060901
    TL 115948783    		 2336k Six LSTs loading for their next combat operation moored at Naval Station Pearl Harbor, between 8 December 1944 and 22 January 1945. From left to right;
    USS LST-609, with an LCT loaded on her main deck (Manila Bay-Bicol operations)
    USS LST-790,with an LCT loaded on her main deck (Invasion of Iwo Jima)
    USS LST-641, with LCT(6)-1300 loaded on her main deck (Invasion of Iwo Jima)
    USS LST-944, (Invasion of Iwo Jima)
    USS LST-84, (Invasion of Iwo Jima) and
    USS LST-648, LCT(6)-1404 loaded on her main deck (Invasion of Iwo Jima) and with an LCI alongside.
    TimeLife_Image_115948783, 11548889 and 115948888, by W. Eugene Smith. For personal non-commercial use only.    		 David Upton
    LST-609
    1016060902
    TL 11548889    		 2219k
    LST-609
    1016060903
    TL 115948888.    		 533k
    LST-648
    1016064802    		 147k USS LST-648 with LCT-1404 on deck, 19 February 1945, in the transport area off Iwo Jima.
    Frames from a short film called "Amphibious Invasion of Iwo Jima, H-Hour Minus One". Dept. of the Navy. National Archives ID 80201, Local ID 428-NPC-15841.    		 David Upton
    LST-648
    1016064803    		 159k
    LCT-1404 47k LCT(6)-1404 beached at Iwo Jima, circa mid to late February 1945 LBS Products
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    World War II LCT Flotillas
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