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USS LST(H)-790
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USS LST-790 (1944 - 1945)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Golf - Yankee - Romeo
NGYR

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive, Iwo Jima) - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)

USS LST-790 was manned by the US Coast Guard during World War II

LST-542 Class Tank Landing Ship:

Laid down, 11 June 1944, at Dravo Corp., Pittsburgh, PA.

Launched, 19 August 1944

Commissioned USS LST-790, 22 September 1944, LT Paul O. Ritter, USCGR, in command

During World War II USS LST-790 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
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 campaigns:

Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
Iwo Jima operation Assault and occupation of Iwo Jima, 20 to 28 February 1945	Okinawa Gunto operation Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 1 to 10 April 1945

Redesignated Landings Ship Tank (Hospital) LST(H)-790, 15 September 1945

Following World War II USS LST(H)-790 was assigned to Occupation service for the following periods:

Navy Occupation Service Medal
2 to September to 1 November 1945
20 November1945 to 14 December 1945

Decommissioned, 27 May 1946

Struck from the Naval Register, 3 July 1946

USS LST-790 earned two battle stars for World War II service

Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, May 1948, to Bethlehem Steel Co., Bethlehem, PA.

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

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
1016060901 TL 115948783	2336k	Six LSTs loading for their next combat operation moored at Naval Station Pearl Harbor, between 8 December 1944 and 22 January 1945. From left to right; USS LST-609, with an LCT loaded on her main deck (Manila Bay-Bicol operations) USS LST-790,with an LCT loaded on her main deck (Invasion of Iwo Jima) USS LST-641, with *LCT(6)-1300* loaded on her main deck (Invasion of Iwo Jima) USS LST-944, (Invasion of Iwo Jima) USS LST-84, (Invasion of Iwo Jima) and USS LST-648, with *LCT(6)-1404* loaded on her main deck (Invasion of Iwo Jima) and with an LCI alongside. TimeLife_Image_115948783, 11548889 and 115948888, by W. Eugene Smith. For personal non-commercial use only.	David Upton
1016060902 TL 11548889	2219k
1016060903 TL 115948888.	533k
	121k	Aerial view of the Iwo Jima beachhead, circa February 1945. Ships that can be identified include; USS LST-715, USS LST-790, USS LST-724, USS LST-224, USS LST-784 and USS LST-779. LSM's include; USS LSM-242, USS LSM-140, USS LSM-47, and USS LSM-43. LCTs include; *LCT-892, and LCT-1029, The one lone LCI that is identifiable is USS LCI(L)-1077. USMC photo # 110582*	USS LSM / LSMR Association
	31k	USS LST-790 at Iwo Jima, circa 19 February to 16 March 1945.	LBS Products
	66k	USS LSM-260 and USS LST-790 beached at Iwo Jima, circa 19 February to 16 March 1945.	USS LSM / LSMR Association