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USS LST-204


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Zulu - Mike - Yankee
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Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (6) - World War II Victory Medal - Philippine Liberation Medal
USS LST-204 was manned by the US Coast Guard during World War II
LST-1 Class Tank Landing Ship:
  • Laid down, 24 July 1942 at Chicago Bridge & Iron Co., Seneca IL;
  • Launched, 3 April 1943;
  • Commissioned USS LST-204, 27 April 1943, LT Arthur I. Roberts, USCG, in command
  • During World War II, USS LST-204 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater LST Flotilla 7, Group 21, Division 42 and participated in the following campaigns:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Eastern New Guinea operation
    Finschhafen occupation, September 1943
    Saidor occupation, January and February 1944     		Western New Guinea operation
    Biak Island operation, June 1944
    Noemfoor Island operation, July 1944
    Cape Sansapor operation, July and August 1944
    Morotai landings, September 1944
    Bismarck Archipelago operation
    Cape Gloucester, New Britain,
    December 1943, January, February and March 1944     		Leyte operation
    Leyte landings, October and November 1944
    Hollandia operation, April and May 1944 Luzon operation
    Lingayen Gulf landing, January 1945
    Mindanao Island landings, March and April 1945

  • Decommissioned, 23 February 1946;
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 5 June 1946;
  • Final Disposition, sold to New Orleans Shipwrecking Corp., Chicago, IL., 8 October 1947, for scrapping
  • USS LST-204 earned six battle stars for World War 11 service.
    Specifications: (as reported by Office of Naval Intelligence-1945)
    Displacement 1,625 t.(lt), 4,080 t.(fl) (sea-going draft w/1675 ton load)
    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)
    Speed 12 kts. (maximum)
    Endurance 24,000 miles @ 9kts. while displacing 3960 tons
    Complement
    7 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
    Propulsion two General Motors 12-567, 900hp diesel engines, two shafts, twin rudders
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    LST-204 271k USS LST-204 (background) beached at New Britain as US Army soldiers struggle to off load a jeep through the surf and sand from USS LST-202 circa December 1943 to March 1944. Photo from "A Photographic History of World War 2", Colliers, 1946 Dan Wilmes
    LST-202 60k USS LST-202 and USS LST-204 (background) beached at New Britain, while off loading tanks and other equipment, circa December 1943 to March 1944.
    US Coast Guard photo # 3058, from the collections of the US Coast Guard Historian's Office.    		 Mike Green
    LST-204 28k USS LST-204 beached at Finschhafen, New Guinea, 22 September 1943 while troops of the Finschhafen Force unload stores from LSTs at the beachhead. Australian War Memorial
    LSM-23 57k USS LST-204 beached at Leyte, D-Day, 20 October 1944. Further down the beach is USS LSM-23 beached. USS LSM / LSMR Association
    LST-204 32k USS LST-204 beached at Samar, Philippine Island, date unknown Harold Hansen
    via his son Peter Hansen
    View the USS LST-204
    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
    Fleet Reserve Association
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    LST Homeport
    State LST Chapters
    United States LST Association
    U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office - LST-204
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