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USS LSM-54

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Victor - Echo - Charlie
NVEC

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (4)
Bottom Row - World War II Victory Medal - Philippines Presidential Unit Citation - Philippines Liberation Medal (2)

USS LSM-54 was transferred to South Korea

LSM-1 Class Landing Ship Medium:

Laid down, 22 June 1944, at Brown Shipbuilding Co., Houston TX,, (date unknown)

Launched, 14 July 1944

Commissioned, 17 August 1944, USS LSM-54, 17 August 1944, LT. Donald L. Newborg USNR in command

During World War II USS LSM-54 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:

Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
Luzon operation Lingayen Gulf landing, 9 January 1945	Borneo operation Brunei Bay operation, 10 to 14 June 1945
Manila Bay-Bicol operation Nasugbu, 31 January 1945	Consolidation and capture of the southern Philippines Palawan Islands landings, 28 February 1945 Visayan Island landings, 18 to 26 March 1945

Decommissioned, 22 May 1946

Converted to a Mine Force Flagship/Minelayer and loaned to South Korea, 3 May 1956, under the terms of the Security Assistance Program

Sold, outright to South Korea, 14 November 1974

Struck from the Naval Register, 15 November 1974

USS LSM-54 earned four battle stars for World War II service

Final Disposition, scrapped in 1984

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 twin 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

Fuel Capacity

Diesel 1,225 Bbls

Troop Accommodations

2 officers

46 enlisted

Armor 10-lb. STS splinter shield to gun mounts, pilot house and conning station

Endurance 4,900 miles @ 12kts.(928 tons displacement)

Propulsion

two Fairbanks Morse (model 38D81/8X10, reversible with hydraulic clutch) Diesel engines, direct drive with 1,440 BHP each @ 720rpm
Ship's Service Generators
two Diesel-drive 100Kw 450V A.C.
one Diesel-drive 20Kw 120V D.C.

twin propellers, 2,800shp

Size	Image Description	Contributed By
17k	USS LSM-54 beached, during the Luzon operation, circa January 1945.	Ronnie Ward for his father Durward Joiner Ward, Coxswain USN USS LSM-259
38k	USS LSM-65, USS LSM-54 and USS LCI(L)-963 preparing to beach at Nasugbu, Luzon, P.I., 31 January 1945. US National Archives photo # 80-G-K-3153 a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.	USS LSM / LSMR Association
96k	Japanese prisoners disembarking from USS LSM-68 and USS LSM-54 at Leyte, 20 October 1945.	BUCS (SCW) Roy Fessenden, US Navy Seabees, Ret.in memory of my Father, E.J. "Buck" Fessenden, MoMM1/c, USS LSM-68
197k
93k	USS LSM-54 under way, date and place unknown.	USS LSM / LSMR Association

Commanding Officers
01	LT. Newborg, Donald L., USNR	17 August 1944 - ?


Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
USS LSM-LSMR Association

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