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USS LST-965

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Kilo - Golf - Charlie
NKGC

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 - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)

LST-542 Class Tank Landing Ship:

Laid down, 27 October 1944, at Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Inc., Hingham, MA.

Launched, 25 November 1944

Commissioned USS LST-965, 20 December 1944, ENS. George S. Harrison USN(T) in command

During World War II USS LST-965 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
LST Flotilla Thirty-One, CAPT. H. S. Covington USN (22);
LST Group Ninety-One, CDR. Jesse Hogan Motes Jr. USN (31);
LST Division One Hundred Eighty-Two

Following World War II USS LST-965 was assigned to Occupation service in the Far East from 2 September to 21 October 1945

Decommissioned, 3 June 1946

Struck from the Naval Register, 19 July 1946

Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 23 October 1947, to the Boston Metals Corp., Baltimore, MD

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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	142k	Launch of *LST-935, 25 November 1944, Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Inc., Hingham, MA. US Naval History and Heritage Command. Photo # UA 536.16.01* Susan Killip Collection.	Robert Hurst
	232k	USS LST-965 riding on her anchor while at rest, date and location unknown.	Gene McFadden for his father Eugene J. McFadden, Gunners Mate USS LST-965
	277k	USS LST-965 crew photos.	Gene McFadden for his father Eugene J. McFadden, Gunners Mate USS LST-965
Chief Engineer ENS. John Moorhead, far right	331k
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	150k	USS LST-965 and USS LST-661 with two other LSTs beached at Wakayama Japan in late 1945.	Gene McFadden for his father Eugene J. McFadden, Gunners Mate USS LST-965
	254k	USS LST-965 beached at Nago Shima, Japan, fall 1945.	Gene McFadden for his father Eugene J. McFadden, Gunners Mate USS LST-965
	124k	LCVPs load aboard USS LST-965 for return to the US mainland, fall 1945.	Gene McFadden for his father Eugene J. McFadden, Gunners Mate USS LST-965
	388k	USS LST-965 ship's officers, 1945.	Gene McFadden for his father Eugene J. McFadden, Gunners Mate USS LST-965
	138k	USS LST-965 crewmen showing two enemy planes downed.	Gene McFadden for his father Eugene J. McFadden, Gunners Mate USS LST-965
	135k	USS LST-965 quarterdeck, date and location, unknown.	Gene McFadden for his father Eugene J. McFadden, Gunners Mate USS LST-965
	83k	USS LST-965 flying the homeward bound pennant in 1945.	Gene McFadden for his father Eugene J. McFadden, Gunners Mate USS LST-965