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USS LST-667

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Foxtrot - Juliet - Echo
NFJE

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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 - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (5) - World War II Victory Medal
Bottom Row - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - Philippines Presidential Unit Citation - Philippines Liberation Medal (2)

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During World War II USS LST-667 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
LST Flotilla Eight, CAPT. E. Watts, USN;
LST Group Twenty-Two, CDR. E. H.Pope, USN;
LST Division Forty-Three and participated in the following campaigns:

Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
Western New Guinea operation Morotai landings, 15 September 1944	Consolidation and capture of the Southern Philippines Visayan Island landings, 29 March to 1 April 1945
Leyte operation Leyte landings, 19 to 29 November 1944	Borneo operation Tarakan Island operation, 30 April to 3 May 1945
Luzon operation Lingayen Gulf landings, 4 to 18 January 1945

Following World War II USS LST-667 was assigned to Occupation service in the Far East for the following periods:

Navy Occupation Service Medal
15 September to 20 October 1945
12 to 25 November 1945
23 December 1945 to 8 January 1946
20 January to 26 February 1946

Final Disposition, sold to Learner Co., Oakland, CA., 11 December 1947, for scrapping

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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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Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Contributed By
	66k	USS LST-667 beached at Morotai, Halmahera Islands, Netherlands East Indies, 18 September 1944 while unloading tractors and bulldozers of the Royal Australian Air Force No. 14 Airfield Construction Squadron. Australian War Memorial photo # 061656		Australian War Memorial
	55k	USS LST-667 beached at Morotai, Halmahera Islands, Netherlands East Indies, 18 September 1944 while Royal Australian Air Force engineers unload heavy construction equipment. Australian War Memorial photo # 017687		Australian War Memorial
	52k	USS LST-614 (far left), USS LST-667 (center), and USS LST-555 (far right), unload at Lingayen Gulf, January 1945. US Navy photo		Bill Lambert
	69k	USS LST-667 along with USS LST-555 to port, unload at Lingayen Gulf, January 1945 US Navy photo		Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret
	57k	USS LST-614 and USS LST-667 (in background), unload at Lingayen Gulf, January 1945. US Navy photo		Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret
	1496k	Navy Surgeons at work aboard USS LST-667, 29 April 1945. LST-667 was surgically equipped and had multiple surgical teams aboard.		Carl Kracht for his father PHom1/c Ken Kracht
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	1500k	USS LST-667 beached at Tarakan Island, Borneo, 1 May 1945, launching LCT "El Toro", 727th Amphibious Tractor Battalion, US Army. Note USS LCS(L)(3)-43 in the background.		Carl Kracht for his father PHom1/c Ken Kracht
1016066707	32k	USS LST-667 underway in convoy off Morotai Island, Halmahera Islands, Netherlands East Indies, 4 June 1945. LST-667 carried RAAF men and equipment for the assault on Labuan, British North Borneo. The ships moved into their places in the large convoy assembled outside Morotai harbor while enroute to Brunei Bay. Australian War Memorial OG2900.		Chin Yu Chu
	136k	USS LST-667 at anchor in San Francisco Bay, CA., circa early 1946 US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 79018, courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1974		US Naval History and Heritage Command

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USS LST-667
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)

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Commanding Officers
01	ENS. Biernat, Wladyslaw Stanislaw, USN	20 May 1944 - 5 June 1946

Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves

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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log

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Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
The USS LST Ship Memorial
LST Homeport
State LST Chapters
United States LST Association

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