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USS LST-767

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Golf - November - Xray
NGNX

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)

USS LST-767 was manned by the US Coast Guard during World War II

LST-542 Class Tank Landing Ship:

Laid down, 19 July 1944, at American Bridge Co., Ambridge, PA.

Launched, 4 September 1944

Commissioned USS LST-767, 30 September 1944, LT. Robert B. Seidman, USCGR, in command

After commissioning USS LST-767 voyaged down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans, LA., and passed through the Panama Canal to the Pacific Ocean in mid-November, arriving at Pearl Harbor in mid-December 1944 where she loaded military passengers, LCT-749, pontoon causeway sections and other materiel. Late in the year USS LST-767 left Hawaii for Leyte, in the Philippine Islands, where she arrived at the beginning of February 1945. During the next two months the landing ship traveled south to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, then returned north to Ulithi, Caroline Islands, and finally, in early April, to Okinawa, arriving a few days after U.S. forces commenced a long and bloody campaign against the island's Japanese defenders.

USS LST-767 was assigned to
LST Flotilla Twenty-Nine, CAPT. C. H. Peterson USCG (25);
LST Group Eighty-Six, CDR. S. R. Sands USCG;
LST Division One Hundred Seventy-One and participated in the following campaign:

Campaign and Dates
Asiatic-Pacific campaign
Okinawa Gunto operation Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 2 to 9 April 1945

After launching LCT-749 and disembarking her passengers and their equipment, USS LST-767 left Okinawa and began several months of transportation service in the central, south and western Pacific. She was in the Solomon Islands when Japan surrendered mid-August 1945.

Following World War II USS LST-767 was assigned to Occupation in the Far East from 19 September 1945 to 4 March 1946

USS LST-767

Decommissioned, 7 March 1946

Struck from the Naval Register, 28 March 1946

Final Disposition, hulk sold for scrapping in May 1945

USS LST-767 earned one battle star for World War II service

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
148k	USS LST-767 commissioning crew, photographed circa September-October 1944. Her Commanding Officer, Lt. R.B. Seidman, USCGR, is seated in the front row, center. Arrows point to Ed Huttenhoff (near the back, just to right of center) and Jean Stewart Reynolds (center row, near the right). US Navy photo # NH 102411, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center. Courtesy of Barry Reynolds, 1990, from the collection of Jean Stewart Reynolds.	US Naval Historical Center
61k	USS LST-767 beached, with a bulldozer preparing a causeway from her bow ramp to the shore, circa 1945. US Navy photo # NH 102408, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center. Courtesy of Barry Reynolds, 1990, from the collection of Jean Stewart Reynolds.	US Naval Historical Center
92k	USS LST-767 beached in the background, with crew member MoMM/2c Ed Huttenhoff, USCGR in the foreground, circa 1945. US Navy photo # NH 99139, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center. Courtesy of Barry Reynolds, 1990, from the collection of Jean Stewart Reynolds.	US Naval Historical Center
65k	USS LST-767 beached at Okinawa while local residents carry supplies ashore. US Navy photo # NH 99140, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center. Courtesy of Barry Reynolds, 1990, from the collection of Jean Stewart Reynolds.	US Naval Historical Center
90k	USS LST-767 beached at Okinawa while local residents carry supplies ashore. US Navy photo # NH 99141, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center. Courtesy of Barry Reynolds, 1990, from the collection of Jean Stewart Reynolds.	US Naval Historical Center
107k	Landing USS LST-767 personnel ashore via breeches buoy, after she had been driven aground on Okinawa by a storm on 1 December 1945. US Navy photo # NH 102410, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center. Courtesy of Barry Reynolds, 1990, from the collection of Jean Stewart Reynolds.	US Naval Historical Center
70k	USS LST-767 aground at Okinawa after being wrecked by a typhoon on 1 December 1945. US Navy photo # NH 101692, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center. Courtesy of Dr. Herbet F. Gabriel, DDS, 1987.	US Naval Historical Center
65k	USS LST-767 aground on the rocks at Okinawa after being driven ashore by a typhoon on 1 December 1945. US Navy photo # NH 99142, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center. Courtesy of Barry Reynolds, 1990, from the collection of Jean Stewart Reynolds	US Naval Historical Center
87k	USS LST-767 aground on the rocks at Okinawa after being driven ashore by a typhoon on 1 December 1945. US Navy photo # NH 102409, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center. Courtesy of Barry Reynolds, 1990, from the collection of Jean Stewart Reynolds	US Naval Historical Center

USS LST-767
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)

Commanding Officers
01	LT. Seidman, Robert B., USCGR	30 September 1944 - 8 November 1945
02	LT. Rollinson, George R., USCG	8 November 1945 - 7 March 1946


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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
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Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
The USS LST Ship Memorial
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State LST Chapters
United States LST Association
U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office - USS LST-767

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