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LSM-46


Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Victor - Delta - Mike
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (Iwo Jima) - Navy Unit Commendation
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal
Individual Awards

Purple Heart (4-KIA, 13-WIA, 23 February 1945, Iwo Jima)
LSM-1 Class Landing Ship Medium:
  • Laid down, 6 June 1944, at Brown Shipbuilding Co., Houston, TX.
  • Launched, 30 June 1944
  • Commissioned USS LSM-46, 1 August 1944, LT. Frederick R. Edwards, USNR in command
  • During World War II LSM-46 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the:
  • Decommissioned, 18 March 1946, at Norfolk, Navy Yard, Portsmouth, VA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown)
  • Final Disposition, sold, 23 October 1948, to Charles N. Wilson, East Saint Johns, New Brunswick, Canada, fate unknown
  • LSM-46 earned one battle star for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 520 t.(light), 743 t. (landing) 1,095 t.(fully loaded)
    Length 203' 6" (ovl)
    Beam 34' 6"
    Draft light, 3' 6" forward, 7' 8" aft, fully loaded, 6' 4" forward, 8' 3" aft
    Speed 13.2 kts. (max.), (928 tons displacement)
    Complement 5 officers, 54 enlisted
    Armament one single bow mounted 40mm gun, four single 20mm gun mounts
    Vehicle/Boat Capacity 5 medium or 3 heavy tanks, or 6 LVT's, or 9 DUKW's
    Troop Accommodations 2 officers, 46 enlisted
    Armor 10-lb. STS splinter shield to gun mounts, pilot house and conning station
    Propulsion two Fairbanks Morse (model 38D81/8X10, reversible with hydraulic clutch) diesels. Direct drive with 1,440 BHP each @ 720rpm, twin screws, Endurance, 4,900 miles @ 12kts.(928 tons displacement)
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    LSM-46 44k LSM-46 pre-commissioning detail at Amphibious Training Base, Little Creek, VA. prior to picking up the ship at Houston. Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. for his father Lawrence A. Miller QM2/c USS LSM-46
    LSM-46 83k LSM-46 builders plate. Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. for his father Lawrence A. Miller QM2/c USS LSM-46
    LSM-46 70k LSM-46 underway, date and place unknown. USS LSM / LSMR Association
    LSM-46 47k LSM-46 crew preparing to sit down to Christmas dinner, December 1944. Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. for his father Lawrence A. Miller QM2/c USS LSM-46
    LSM-46 88k LSM-46 Commanding Officer, LT. Edwards, inspects his crew during Captain's Inspection, date and place unknown. Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. for his father Lawrence A. Miller QM2/c USS LSM-46
    LSM-46 60k LSM-46 Commanding Officer, LT. Edwards, inspects his crew during Captain's Inspection, date and place unknown. Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. for his father Lawrence A. Miller QM2/c USS LSM-46
    LSM-46 79k LSM-46 officers, date and place unknown. Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. for his father Lawrence A. Miller QM2/c USS LSM-46
    LSM-46 80k LSM-46 part of crew at inspection, date and place unknown. Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. for his father Lawrence A. Miller QM2/c USS LSM-46
    LSM-46 37k LSM-46 crew receiving pre-invasion briefing prior to landing at Iwo Jima. Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. for his father Lawrence A. Miller QM2/c USS LSM-46
    LSM-46 87k LSM-46 beached at Iwo Jima. 19 February 1945. Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. for his father Lawrence A. Miller QM2/c USS LSM-46
    LSM-46 47k LSM-46 unloads at tank onto the beach at Iwo Jima, date unknown. Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. for his father Lawrence A. Miller QM2/c USS LSM-46
    LSM-46 47k LSM-46 off the beachhead at Iwo Jima as Marines reload supplies from a larger ship into the LSM for the run into the beach, date unknown. Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. for his father Lawrence A. Miller QM2/c USS LSM-46
    LSM-46 93k LSM-46 transporting wounded Marines from the beach to a hospital ship waiting off shore in the transport area at Iwo Jima, date unknown. Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. for his father Lawrence A. Miller QM2/c USS LSM-46
    LSM-46 49k LSM-46 transporting wounded Marines from the beach to a hospital ship waiting off shore in the transport area at Iwo Jima, date unknown. Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. for his father Lawrence A. Miller QM2/c USS LSM-46
    Samaritan 68k Samaritan (AH-10) off Iwo Jima in February 1945. LSM-46 has just shoved off after delivering wounded Marines to the hospital ship and is returning to the beach to collect additional wounded Marines. Photo was taken from LSM-46 by Lawrence A. Miller QM2/c. Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. for his father Lawrence A. Miller QM2/c USS LSM-46
    LSM-46 87k LSM-46 beached at Iwo Jima, 19 February 1945. In the foreground 4th Division Marines are taking cover on the beach as best they can.
    US Navy photo # NH 65312 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.    		 USS LSM / LSMR Association
    LSM-46 58k LSM-46 and LSM-145 beached at Iwo Jima, circa February 1945. Joe Helmstetter to the USS LSM / LSMR Association
    LSM-46 62k LSM-46 beached at Iwo Jima, 1945. USS LSM / LSMR Association
    LSM-46 96k LSM-46 off-loading a tank at Iwo Jima, 1945. Joe Helmstetter to the USS LSM / LSMR Association
    LSM-46 111k LSM-46 crew during stand down after the Iwo Jima campaign, date unknown. Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. for his father Lawrence A. Miller QM2/c USS LSM-46
    LSM-46 58k Damage sustained by LSM-46 at Iwo Jima, date unknown. Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. for his father Lawrence A. Miller QM2/c USS LSM-46
    LSM-46 61k LSM-46 in dry dock. Her starboard side being repaired after being hit by friendly fire from a disabled and abandoned tank. Part of the detonator was found in a mattress in the forward crew compartment Charles J. Sturm, USS LSM-46
    Photo Courtesy Jim Tusing USS LSM-372,
    Editor "Alligator Alley" The Newsletter
    of the USS LSM - LSMR Association
    LSM-46 82k LSM-46 underway while the crew stands down after the Invasion of Iwo Jima, date and place unknown. Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. for his father Lawrence A. Miller QM2/c USS LSM-46
    LSM-46 28k Three LSM-46 crew members show off their souvenir Japanese flag from Iwo Jima, date and place unknown. Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. for his father Lawrence A. Miller QM2/c USS LSM-46
    The DANFS history extract for LSM-46 is from LSM-LSMR Amphibious Forces, Vol. II. Paducah, Kentucky: Turner Publishing Company, © 1997. (ISBN 1-56311-389-9).
    LSM-46 Iwo Jima Action Report
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
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