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USS LST-582

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Echo - Yankee - Charlie
NEYC

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 (1) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)

LST-542 Class Tank Landing Ship:

Laid down, 18 May 1944, at Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Co., Evansville, IN.

Launched, 1 July 1944

Commissioned USS LST-582, 31 July 1944, LT. H. L. Thomas, USNR, in command

During WWII USS LST-582 was assigned to Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
LST Flotilla Six, CAPT. Laidlaw;
LST Group Seventeen, CAPT. E. Watts USN;
LST Division Thirty-four and participated in the following campaign:

Campaign and Dates
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign
Okinawa Gunto operation Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 1 to 14 April 1945

Following World War II USS LST-582 was assigned to Occupation service in the Far East for the following periods:

Navy Occupation Service Medal
6 to 23 September 1945
23 December 1945 to 28 January 1946

Decommissioned, 29 January 1946 and assigned to Commander Naval Forces Far East (COMNAVFE) Shipping Control Authority for Japan (SCAJAP), redesignated Q034

Struck from the Naval Register, 31 October 1947

USS LST-582 earned one battle star for World War II service

Transferred to the Maritime Commission (MARAD), 24 May 1948

Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 24 May 1948, to Consolidated Builders, 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

Size	Image Description	Source
151k	Caricature of Hogan's Goat painted on the conning tower of *LST-582*.	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
108k	*LST-582* headed for the Russell Islands from Pearl Harbor. Church services being held on the forward ramp by LT. Howard Hazlett, XO, October 1944.	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
67k	*LST-582* loading a combat cargo at Sansapor, New Guinea, December 1944.	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
65k	*LST-582* enroute to Lingayen Gulf with combat troops and equipment, circa early 1945.	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
75k	*LST-582* headed into pontoon causeways to discharge cargo at San Fabian, Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippine Islands, circa early 1945.	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
105k	*LST-582* off-loading Army trucks via the pontoon causeway at San Fabian, Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippine Islands, circa early 1945.	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
69k	*LST-582* off-loading Army trucks via the pontoon causeway at San Fabian, Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippine Islands, circa early 1945	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
127k	*LST-582* beached at Purvis Bay, Florida Islands to take on supplies, March 1945.	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
75k	*LST-582* in heavy weather with troops of the 1st Marine Division aboard while headed for the Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, March 1945.	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
47k	*LST-582* headed toward Hagushi Beach during the Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 1 April 1945 -- Easter Sunday / April Fools Day. Land is visible under the smoke screen. West Virginia (BB-48) and a destroyer are dead ahead.	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
91k	*LST-582* beached on Yellow Beach (Hagushi Beach), Okinawa discharging cargo, 3 April 1945.	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
22k	*LST-582* beached, along with an unidentified LSM and another LST, in the Philippines, date unknown.	Thomas Clevenger 1SG (ret), US Army for his father-in-law LT. Vasco Luchi USNR, USS LST-582
23k	*LST-582* beached, date and location unknown.	Thomas Clevenger 1SG (ret), US Army for his father-in-law LT. Vasco Luchi USNR, USS LST-582
76k	*LST-582* "The Black Gang" Engineering Department, date and place unknown.	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

USS LST-582
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)

Commanding Officers
01	LT. Thomas, H. L., USNR	31 July 1944 - 29 January 1946


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