Difference between revisions of "USS LST 454"
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* Eastern New Guinea (Lae, Finschhafen, Saidor) | * Eastern New Guinea (Lae, Finschhafen, Saidor) | ||
* Bismark Archipelago (Admiralty Islands) | * Bismark Archipelago (Admiralty Islands) |
Latest revision as of 18:05, 13 September 2023
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Remarks
Assigned to the Asiatic - Pacific theatre following her launch, she was built to carry tanks, wheeled and tracked vehicles, artillery, construction equipment and military supplies. A ramp or elevator forward allowed vehicles access to tank deck from main deck. Additional capacity included sectional pontoons carried on each side of vessel amidships, to either build Rhino Barges or use as causeways. Married to the bow ramp, the causeways would enabled payloads to be delivered ashore from deeper water or where a beachhead would not allow the vessel to be grounded forward after ballasting.
Armaments possible
- 2 Twin 40MM gun mounts
- 4 Single 40MM gun mounts
- 12 single 20MM gun mounts
Landings participated in
- Eastern New Guinea (Lae, Finschhafen, Saidor)
- Bismark Archipelago (Admiralty Islands)
- Hollandia
- Western New Guinea (Biak and Morotai)
- Leyte landings
- Luzon landings
- Southern Phillippines (Visayan Island landings)
- Borneo (Balikpapan landing)