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USS LST-885


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Juliet - Bravo - Bravo
 NJBB
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-885 was manned by the US Coast Guard during World War II
LST-542 Class Tank Landing Ship:
  • Laid down, 13 August 1944, at Dravo Corp.. Pittsburgh, PA.
  • Launched, 23 September 1944
  • Commissioned USS LST-885, 26 October 1944, LT. Oliver McIntosh USCGR in command
  • During World War II USS LST-885 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
    LST Flotilla Twenty-Nine, CAPT. H. E. Richter USCG (24);
     LST Group Eighty-Seven; CDR. E. Anderson USCG
     LST Division One Hundred Seventy-Three and participated in the following campaign:

    Asiatic-Pacific Campaign
    Campaign and Dates
    Okinawa Gunto operation
    Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 26 March to 3 April 1945

  • Following World War II USS LST-885 was assigned to Occupation service in the Far East for the following periods:

    Navy Occupation Service Medal
    2 to 6 September 1945
    15 September to 25 November 1945

  • Decommissioned, 29 April 1946
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 3 July 1946
  • Sold for commercial operations, 16 December 1947, to Tex-O-Kan Flour Mills Co., Dallas, TX.
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
  • USS LST-885 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
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    LST-885 69k USS LST-885 launching, 23 September 1944 at Dravo Corp Yard, Pittsburgh, PA. Harold E. Carter USS LST-885
    LST-885
    1016088536    		 131k USS LST-885, with LCT(6)-1407 on board, lay off the invasion beaches at Karama Islands southwest of Okinawa, 26 March 1945. LCT(6)-1407 was launched here on 27 March 1945.
    Frame from the short film "Marines Raise American Flag Over Geruma Shima Island". National Archives ID 80229. Local ID 428-NPC-15927.    		 David Upton
    LST-647 138k USS LST-647 moves in toward the beach at Kerama Retto. In background is USS LST-885. Photographed from USS West Virginia (BB-48).
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-K-3821, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.    		 US Naval History and Heritage Command
    LST-885
    1016088535    		 358k USS LST-885 along with other LSTs and landing craft assault Geruma Shima in the Ryukyus Islands putting the 77th Army Division ashore a few days before the main assault on Okinawa.
    National Archives Identifier 205586376, Local ID 26-G-4341, US Coast Guard photo # 4341     		David Upton
    LST-885 33k USS LST-885 beached at Yokohama, 1945 Harold E. Carter USS LST-885
    USS LST-885
    Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)
    Commanding Officers
    01LT. McIntosh, Oliver T. USCGR26 October 1944 - ?
    02LT. Davis, Caldwell USCG? - 29 April 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
    Harold E. Carter's personal collection of World War II and USS LST-885 photos
    The USS LST Ship Memorial
    LST Home Port
    State LST Chapters
    United States LST Association
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