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USS LST-225


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Yankee - Whiskey - Victor
 NYWV
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 (3) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
LST-1 Class Tank Landing Ship:
  • Laid down, 14 April 1943, at Chicago Bridge and Iron Co., Seneca, IL.
  • Launched, 4 September 1943
  • Commissioned USS LST-225, 2 October 1943, LT. Lawrence J. Goddard USNR in command
  • During World War II USS LST-225 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
    LST Flotilla Thirteen, CAPT. J.G. Sampson USN (22);
    LST Group Thirty-Seven, CDR. R.D. Higgins USNR;
    LST Division Seventy-Three and participated in the following campaigns:

    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Marianas operation
    Capture and occupation of Saipan, 15 June to 28 July 1944     		Western Caroline Islands operation
    Capture and occupation of southern Palau Islands, 6 September to 14 October 1944
    Tinian capture and occupation, 24 to 28 July 1944  

  • Following World War II USS LST-225 was assigned to Occupation service in the Far East from 22 December 1945 to 20 February 1946
  • Decommissioned, 30 July 1946
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 28 August 1946
  • USS LST-225 earned three battle stars for World War II service
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 16 December 1947, to Learner Co., Oakland, CA.
    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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    For Full Size Image    		 Size Image Description Source
    LST-225 95k USS LST-225 enroute to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater, circa-April 1944. Photo by Albert Bailey USCG USS LST-23, submitted by David Fuller
    LST-225 84k
    LST-225 87k
    LST-225 39k USS LST-225 at Peleliu, on D-Day 6 September 1944.
    National Archives photo # 96202.    		 US National Park Service
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Commanding Officers
    01LT. Goddard, Lawrence Jack, USNR2 October 1943 - 1 August 1944
    02LT. Parker, Amory, USNR1 August 1944 - ?
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves

    For more photos and information about USS LST-225 see;
  • Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)
  • Western Caroline Islands Attack Landing Order
  • Beach White Peleliu - CTF 32 Operation Plan A501-44 Appendix 4 to Annex "D"
  • Action Report - Peleliu landing and subsequent operations, 15 September 1944 - 23 January 1945
  • "How LST-225 Sunk a Japanese Submarine" from an oral history by SM2/c William Edwin Reckert
  • The USS LST Ship Memorial
  • LST Home Port
  • State LST Chapters
  • United States LST Association
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