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LST-474

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive, Leyte landing) - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (8)
Bottom Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - Philippines Liberation Medal
Personal Awards

Purple Hearts (Leyte landings, number unknown)
LST-1 Class Tank Landing Ship:
  • Laid down, 10 July 1942, at Kaiser, Inc., Vancouver, WA.
  • Launched, 12 December 1942
  • Commissioned USS LST-474, 19 March 1943, LT. R. W. Langworthy in command
  • During World War II LST-474 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Eastern New Guinea operation
    Lae occupation, September 1943
    Saidor occupation, January 1944     		Leyte operation
    Leyte landings, October and November 1944
    Bismarck Archipelago operation
    Cape Gloucester, New Britain, December 1943     		Luzon operation
    Lingayen Gulf landings, January 1945
    Hollandia operation, April 1944 Consolidation and capture of Southern Philippines
    Mindanao Island landings, April 1945
    Western New Guinea operation
    Biak Island operation, May and June 1944
    Morotai landings, September 1944     		Borneo operation
    Balikpapan operation, June and July 1945

  • Following World War II LST-474 performed occupation duty in the Far East in September 1945
  • Decommissioned, 22 March 1946
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 17 April 1946
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 17 December 1947, to Ships and Power Equipment Corp., Barber, N.J.
  • LST-474 earned eight battle stars for World War II 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-474 51k LST-474 beached at Aitape, North East New Guinea, 22 April 1944, while Royal Australian Air Force Engineers unload their heavy equipment across the beach.
    Australian War Memorial photo # OG1030.    		 Australian War Memorial.
    Culebra Island 53k LST-474 and two other LSTs tied up to Culebra Island (ARG-7) while at anchor off Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea, October 1944. These three LSTs were damaged by shore batteries at Leyte, each of them lost men and two of them an officer each. Photo by Vincent Cottrell Daniel Cottrell in honor of his father Vincent Cottrell, Coxswain, USNR USS Culebra Island
    LST-475 56k LST-475, LST-474, LST-594 and other amphibious vessels beached in the Philippines, August 1945. Note crew members swimming in the surf near the bow of LST-474. Thomas Clevenger 1SG (ret), US Army for his father-in-law LT. Vasco Luchi USNR, USS LST-582, courtesy Ed Novak Electricians Mate USS LST-582
    LST-474 78k LST-474 beached at Balikpapan, Borneo, 3 July 1945, while Royal Australian Air Force Engineers of No. 61 Airfield Construction Wing RAAF, unload their heavy machinery.
    Australian War Memorial photo # OG3033.    		 Australian War Memorial.
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Fleet Reserve Association
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    The USS LST Ship Memorial
    LST Home Port
    State LST Chapters
    United States LST Association
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