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Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns |
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Campaign and Dates | Campaign and Dates |
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Bismarck Archipelago operation
Cape Gloucester; New Britain, 26 to 28 December 1943, 15 to 19 January 1944, 30 January to 2 February, 15 to 19 February and 21 to 23 February 1944 Admiralty Islands landings, 29 February to 4 March, 7 to 11 March and 28 March to 10 April 1944 | Western New Guinea operations
Toem-Wakde-Sarmi area operation. 18 to 20 May and 23 to 25 May 1944 Biak Island operation. 27 to 30 May, 3 to 7 June and 16 to 16 June 1944 Noemfoor Island operation, 10 to 15 July 1944 Cape Sansapor operation. 30 July, 2. 6 to 12, 14 to 19 and 22 to 28 August 1944 Morotai landings, 15 September 1944 |
Eastern New Guinea operations
Saidor occupation, 2 to 3, 6 to 9 and 20 to 22 January and 4 to 7 February 1944 | Luzon operation
Lingayen Gulf landings, 4 to 15 January 1945 |
Hollandia operation
Aitape Humboldt Bay-Tanahmerah Bay, 21 to 25 April and 1 to 7 May 1944 | Leyte operation
Leyte landings, 23 October 4 November 1944 |
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300k | U.S. Marines board USS LST-22, on Christmas Day 1945 for Cape Gloucester.
US National Archives photo. |
David Upton | |
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105k | USS LST-22 unloading on the beach to port of USS LST-26 at Tanah Merah Bay, Hollandia,
Dutch East Indies, circa May 1944. The LST in the far distance is unidentified. US Coast Guard photo # 2301, from USCG Historian's Office, photographer unknown. |
Keith D Lumsden | |
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288k | USS LST-22 and USS LST-206 in the surf at Leyte, as soldiers strip down and build sandbag piers out to the ramps to speed up unloading operations. 1 October 1944. US Coast Guard photo now in the collection of the US National Archives.NARA FILE #: 026-G-3738 WAR & CONFLICT BOOK #: 1210 |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret | |
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1292k | Alligators leave USS LST-22 via her bow ramp during test unloading at Aitape, Dutch New Guinea, 26 December 1944. US Army Signal Corps. photo # SC 200397-S, from the collections of the US National Archives. |
Dave Kerr | |
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838k | USS LST-22 unloading her cargo of Alligators and Buffalos, 9 January 1945, at Lingayen Gulf during the invasion of Luzon. Vehicles were under the command of LCOL. Lloyd Barron, CO (3RD BN, 43 INF DIV). US Army Signal Corps. photo # SC 200500, by PVT Robert Raines, from the collections of the US National Archives. |
Dave Kerr | |
Merchant Service |
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50k | Ex-USS LST-22 in Chinese merchant service as M/V Wan Cheng, moored pierside, circa 1947, location unknown. | Jean Lassaque |
Commanding Officers | ||
01 | LT. Ditlefsen, Lawrence N., USCG | 29 May 1943 - ? |
02 | LT. Moore, Willie A. | no dates |
03 | LT. Rogers, Howard N., USCGR | ? 19 October 1945 |
04 | LT. Rogers, S. F. | 19 October 1945 - 5 March 1946 |
05 | LT. Markle, F. G. | 5 March 1946 - 1 April 1946 |
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