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LST-1078
AG-147 / AKS-28 Proton

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons



Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - China Service Medal (extended)
Second Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Third Row - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - National Defense Service Medal - Philippines Liberation Medal
LST-542 Class Tank Landing Ship
  • Laid down, 27 March 1945, at Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard, Hingham, MA.
  • Launched, 25 April 1945
  • Commissioned USS LST-1078, 15 May 1945
  • Decommissioned, 29 April 1948, at San Diego, CA.
  • Laid up in Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego Group
  • Named Proton (AG-147) in January 1949
  • Recommissioned in February 1951, at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA., as USS Proton (AKS-28)
  • Decommissioned, 22 April 1958, at Naval Supply Center, Oakland, CA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 January 1959
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,625 t.(fl), 4,080 t.(fl)
    Length 328'
    Beam 50'
    Draft 14' 1"
    Speed 11.6 kts.
    Complement 119
    Armament eight single 40mm AA gun mounts
    Propulsion two General Motors 12-567 diesel engines, two shafts, twin rudders
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    Proton 124k Protonr (AKS-28) underway in San Francisco Bay after competing a Pacific deployment, December 1957. Note the "Homeward Bound pennant.
    Photo by ©Allied Photographers of San Francisco.    		 Robert M. Cieri
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