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USS LST-532
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Invitation and Guest Passes to attend the presentation of the Army-Navy Production Award to the Evansville Shipyard, Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Co.
Shipbuilding Division and and the launching of LST-532 |
Jesse Allen |
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Color Guard raising the Army-Navy E Flag, 29 November 1943, as part of the launching ceremony for LST-532 at
Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Co., Evansville, IN.
Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Co.photo from USS LST Ship Memorial, Inc. LST Shipyard Collection |
Tommy Trampp |
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Ship sponsor, Mrs. Fred M. Wyatt, christens LST-532 during the ship's launching ceremony, 28 November 1943,
at Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Co., Evansville, IN.
Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Co.photo from USS LST Ship Memorial, Inc. LST Shipyard Collection |
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USS LST-532 beached at Normandy, June 1944. |
LST-519 web site |
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USS LST-310 (2nd LST from the right) along with other ships putting cargo ashore on one of the invasion beaches, at low tide
during the first days of the Invasion of Normandy in June 1944. Among identifiable ships present are USS LST-532 (in the center of
the view); USS LST-262 (3rd LST from right); USS LST-533 (partially visible at far right);
USS LST-524 and LCT-637 beached above the tide line. Note the barrage balloons overhead and Army "half-track" convoy forming up on the beach.
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Coast Guard photo # 26-G-2517 from the US Coast Guard collection in the US National Archives. |
Arthur DeLorenzo MoMM3/c USS LST 262 |
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From left to right;
USS LST-58,
USS LST-532,
LCT-637
USS LST-310,
USS LST-533 unload across the Normandy beachhead, during the first days of the
Invasion of Normandy in June 1944. Note the barrage balloons overhead.
US National Archives Identifier 205578624, Local Identifier 26-G-2515, US Coast Guard photo # 2515. |
Marilyn Smith and David Upton |
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USS LST-532 underway with LCT(5)-211 loaded on her main deck, 4 July 1945.
U.S. National Archives photo # 80-G-453469 a US Navy photo now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives |
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USS LST-532 beached, circa 1946-1955, while unloading construction equipment on Crashboat Beach. Crashboat Beach was the location for the
Rescue Crash Boats for the former Ramey AFB in NW Puerto Rico. |
Garred Giles, Administrator, Ramey AFB Museum |
USS Chase County (LST-532)
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USS Chase County (LST-532) under way, circa 1967, location unknown.
US Navy photo. |
Robert Hurst |
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USS Chase County (LST-532) steams into Subic Bay in 1967 with 29 rescued Japanese fisherman on board.
US Naval History and Heritage Command Catalog # L45-48.08.02 |
Mike Smolinski |
USNS Chase County (T-LST-532)
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USS Stone County (LST-1141) unloading ammunition and stores on a beach near Da Nang, Republic of Vietnam, 25 July 1966.
USNS Chase County (T-LST-532) is also on the beach, at right.
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # K-32530 by JO1 Ernest L. Filtz. |
Mike Smolinski |
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USS Chase County (LST-532) under way in Saipan Lagoon, Pacific Trust Territories, 1971. |
University of Hawaii Library, reel 3426-02 |
Merchant Service
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Ex-USNS Chase County (T-LST-532) under way in merchant service as MS Constructors, date and location unknown. |
Huug Pieterse |
