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LST / LST(M)-676 / APB-42 Yavapai

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - China Service Medal (extended) - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
LST-542 Class Tank Landing Ship:
  • Laid down as LST-676, 22 April 1944, at American Bridge and Iron Co., Ambridge, PA.
  • Launched, 6 June 1944
  • Commissioned USS LST-676, 30 June 1944, at New Orleans. LA.
  • Converted to a Benawah Class Self-propelled Barracks Ship at Waipio Amphibious Operating Base, West Loch Pearl Harbor, TH.
  • Initially redesignated Landing Ship Tank (Modified), USS LST(M)-676
  • Redesignated and named USS Yavapai (APB-42), 1 March 1945
  • Decommissioned, 3 December 1946, at Charleston Naval Shipyard, Charleston, S.C.
  • Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet
  • Struck from the Naval Register circa 1950
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
  • Yavapai (APB-42) received one battle star as LST(M)-676 for the Iwo Jima campaign and one battle star as Yavapai (APB-42) for the Okinawa campaign during World War II
    Specifications:
    Displacement 2,189 t.
    Length 328'
    Beam 50'
    Draft 11' 2"
    Speed 12 kts.
    Complement 151
    Troop Accommodations 990
    Armament seven 40mm, twelve 20mm
    Propulsion two General Motors 12-567 diesel engines, two shafts
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    Yavapai 62k Yavapai (APB-42) at anchor with an LCT in the 1300 series alongside, date and place unknown. Tom Law, courtesy of Richard Warden USS Yavapai
    LST-461/662/672/723 75k Tank Landing Ships (LST) and a Barracks Ship (APB) moored together, 1945.The ships in this group include (from left to right): An unidentified LST (In the number range from LST-850 through LST-859); LST-461; Yavapai (APB-42); LST-662; LST-672 and LST-733.
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-350133, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives         		US Naval Historical Center
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site
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