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USS LST-166


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Golf - Whiskey - Golf
 NGWG
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Navy Unit Commendation - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (3) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)

USS LST-166 was manned by the US Coast Guard during World War II
LST-1 Class Tank Landing Ship:
  • Laid down, 7 September 1942, at Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Co., Evansville, IN.
  • Launched, 1 February 1943
  • Commissioned USS LST-166, 22 April 1943, LT. Fred B. Bradley, USCG, in command
  • During World War II LST-166 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
    LST Flotilla Five, CAPT. J. R. Clark;
     LST Group Thirteen, CDR. C. R. Lea;
     LST Division Twenty-Six and
    LST Flotilla Five, CAPT. G.B. Carter, USN;
     LST Group Fourteen, CDR. R.W. Lejeunesse, USN;
     LST Division Twenty-Seven and participated in the following campaigns:

    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaigns and Dates Campaigns and Dates
    Treasury-Bougainville operation
    Occupation and defense of Cape Torokina, 15 December 1943    		 Okinawa Gunto operation
    Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 2 to 15 April 1945
    Marianas operation
    Capture and occupation of Saipan, 15 to 22 June 1944    		  

  • Following World War II USS LST-166 was assigned to Occupation service in the Far East for the following periods:

    Navy Occupation Service Medal
    23 to 26 September 1945
    2 to 9 November 1945

  • Decommissioned, 9 May 1946
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 19 June 1946
  • USS LST-166 earned three battle stars for World War II service
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 3 November 1947, to Dulien Steel Products, Inc., Seattle, WA.
    Specifications:
    Displacement
    1,625 t.(lt)
    4,080 t.(fl) (sea-going draft w/1675 ton load)
    2,366 t. (beaching displacement)
    Length 328' o.a.
    Beam 50'
    Draft
    light 2' 4" fwd, 7' 6" aft
    sea-going 8' 3" fwd, 14' 1" aft
    landing 3' 11" fwd, 9' 10" aft (landing w/500 ton load)
    limiting 11' 2"
    maximum navigation 14' 1"
    Speed 11.6 kts. (trial)
    Endurance 24,000 miles @ 9kts. while displacing 3960 tons
    Complement
    13 officers
    104 enlisted
    Troop Accommodations
    16 officers
    147 enlisted
    Boats 2 LCVP
    Cargo Capacity (varied with mission - payloads between 1600 and 1900 tons)
    Typical loads
    One Landing Craft Tank (LCT), tanks, wheeled and tracked vehicles, artillery, construction equipment and military supplies. A ramp or elevator forward allowed vehicles access to tank deck from main deck
    Additional capacity included sectional pontoons carried on each side of vessel amidships, to either build Rhino Barges or use as causeways. Married to the bow ramp, the causeways would enabled payloads to be delivered ashore from deeper water or where a beachhead would not allow the vessel to be grounded forward after ballasting
    Armament (varied with availability when each vessel was outfitted. Retro-fitting was accomplished throughout WWII. The ultimate armament design for United States vessels was
    2 - Twin 40MM gun mounts w/Mk. 51 directors
    4 - Single 40MM gun mounts
    12 single 20MM gun mounts
    Fuel Capacity
    Diesel 4,300 Bbls
    Propulsion
    two General Motors 12-567A, 900hp Diesel engines
    single Falk Main Reduction Gears
    three Diesel-drive 100Kw 230V D.C. Ship's Service Generators
    two propellers, 1,700shp
    twin rudders
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    LST-166 74k USS LST-166 under way, after October 1944, location unknown.  
    LST-166
    1016016602    		 5907k From left to right;
    the bow of USS LSM-166,
    USS LSM-33,
    Unknown LST,
    USS LST-166 (next to an unknown LST),
    USS LST-787 off Okinawa. The pillars of smoke are from two Japanese planes shot down during and air attack on the Okinawa invasion fleet, circa April 1945.
    National Archives Identifier 205586498, Local Identifier 26-G-4438, US Coast Guard Photo # 4438 by US Coast Guard photographer Cepheus Martin.    		 David Upton
    USS LST-166
    Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)
    Commanding Officers
    01LT. Bradley, Fred B., USCG22 April 1943 - ?
    02LTjg. Berry, Hilary J., USCG? - 9 August 1944
    03LTjg. Frauerheim, John A., USCGR9 August 1944 - 15 November 1944
    04LT. Anderson, Lloyd L., USCGR15 November 1944 - 22 May 1945
    05LTjg. Thompson, C. C., USCG22 May 1945 - 9 May 1945
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    LST Flotilla Five War Diary May 1944
    LST Flotilla Five War Diary July 1944
    The USS LST Ship Memorial
    LST Home Port
    State LST Chapters
    United States LST Association
    Action Report - Landing of Occupation Forces, Nagasaki Japan, September 1945
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