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USS LST-701


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Foxtrot - Papa - Tango
 NFPT
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 (3)
Bottom Row - World War II Victory Medal - Philippines Presidential Unit Citation - Philippines Liberation Medal (2)
LST-542 Class Tank Landing Ship:
  • Laid down, 1 April 1944, at Jeffersonville Boat & Machine Co., Jeffersonville, IN.
  • Launched, 18 May 1944
  • Commissioned USS LST-701, 13 June 1944, LT. Raymond S. Glessner USNR in command
  • During World War II USS LST-701 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:

    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Luzon operation
    Lingayen Gulf landings, 9 January 1945     		Okinawa Gunto operations
    Assault and Occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 1 April 24 June 1945
    Manila Bay-Bicol operations
    Nasugbu operation, 31 January 1945     		 

  • For the Okinawa Gunto operation USS LST-701 was assigned to:
    LST Flotilla Six, CAPT. Laidlaw;
     LST Group Sixteen, LCDR. J. T. Brugger USNR;
     LST Division Thirty-Two
  • Decommissioned, 13 July 1946
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 28 August 1946
  • USS LST-701 earned three battle stars for World War II service
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 27 October 1947, to Moore Drydock 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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    LST-7-1 66k USS LST-701 beached in Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippines, 14 January 1945.
    Leonard D. LeClair Jr. RM3/c USS LST-701 wrote on the back of this photo "The natives were waiting for us to come a shore [to] trade clothes for Japanese invasion money."    		 Photo - Jan McDaniel/Quigg for her father John Roscoe McDaniel WT3/c USS LST-701
    Caption - Dean LeClair for his father Leonard D. LeClair Jr. RM3/c USS LST-701
    LST-701 216k USS LST-701 at anchor in San Francisco Bay, circa 1945.
    US Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo # NH 51441, courtesy of D.M. McPherson, 1967    		 Mike Green
    USS LST-701
    Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)
    Commanding Officers
    01LT. Glessner, Raymond, Samuel, USNR13 June 1944 - October 1945
    02LTjg. Kerr, Albert R., USNROctober 1945 - February 1946
    03LTjg. Beers, Rowland A., USNRFebruary 1946 - May 1946
    04LTjg. Hamblin, Joseph M., USNRMay 1946 - 13 July 1946
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    John Roscoe McDaniel’s Naval Log
    The USS LST Ship Memorial
    LST Home Port
    State LST Chapters
    United States LST Association
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