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USS San Bernardino County (LST-1110)
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USS LST-1110 (1945 - 1955)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Bravo - Alpha - India
NBAI

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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 (1)
Bottom Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - National Defense Service Medal

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USS San Bernardino County (LST-1110) was transferred to the Republic of China and renamed Chung Chiang (LST-225)

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During World War II USS LST-1110 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
LST Flotilla Thirty-Three, CAPT. C. A. Legg USN (24);
LST Group Ninety-Seven, CDR. H. B. McLean;
LST Division One Hundred Ninety-Four and participated in the following campaign:

Asiatic-Pacific Campaign
Campaign and Dates
Okinawa Gunto operation Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 26 to 28 June 1945

Following World War II USS LST-1110 was assigned to Occupation service in the Far East for the following periods:

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

Final Disposition RPS Chung Chiang was discarded by the Republic of China in 1993, fate unknown

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Specifications:

Displacement

1,625 t.(lt)

4,080 t.(fl) (sea-going draft w/1675 ton load)

2,366 t.

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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Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Contributed By
USS LST-1110
	40k	USS LST-1110 nested with four unidentified LSTs, date and location unknown. Photo courtesy David Lee from collection of Alton S. Lee		Jim Anderson LST-1110 Home Port
	51k	USS LST-1110 at anchor, date and location unknown. © US Naval Institute photo		Jim Anderson LST-1110 Home Port
	42k	USS LST-1110 beached at Guadalcanal, date unknown. Photo courtesy Marge Tekstar		Jim Anderson LST-1110 Home Port
	31k	USS LST-1110 underway, date and location unknown. Photo courtesy Thomas R. Lonnberg, Curator of History, Evansville Museum		Jim Anderson LST-1110 Home Port
	67k	USS LST-1110 underway, date and location unknown. © US Naval Institute photo		Jim Anderson LST-1110 Home Port
	45k	USS LST-1110 beached in the Hawaiian Islands, date unknown.		.
	67k	USS LST-1110 at West Kukum Beach, Guadalcanal, 18 August 1945. This photograph, originally black and white, was color-tinted prior to its donation to the Naval Historical Center. Donated by James C. Anderson, December 1999. US Navy photo # NH 97212-KN		US Naval Historical Center
	93k	USS LST-1110 photographed during the later 1940s or early 1950s, probably in San Diego harbor. This image was received by the Naval Photographic Center, December 1959. US Navy photo # 97213, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center		US Naval Historical Center
	79k	USS LST-1110 participating in Operation "Miki" landing operations on Pokai Beach, Waianae, Oahu, 25-26 October 1949. Officers are watching from a picnic table command post as USS LST-1110 lands forces over a causeway. USS LST-1123 is standing by to the left. Photographed by Ted Huggins, October 1949 US Navy photo # NH 70247, from the collection of the US Naval Historical Center		US Naval Historical Center
	40k	USS LST-1110) unloading over the beach at Barter Island, Alaska, date unknown.		Dan Guinn, USS LST-1110.org web site courtesy the H.A. Taylor Collection
USS San Bernardino County (LST-1110)
80-G-685926	246	USS San Bernardino County (LST-1110) underway in a consolidated ice belt, northeast of Point Barrow, Alaska, during "DEW" Line support operations, 11 September 1955. US National Archives photo # 80-G-685926, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.		Glenn Ryerson and Mike Smolinski
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	103k	USS San Bernardino County (LST-1110) battles heavy ice as she waits for help from US Coast Guard icebreaker USCGC Bittersweet (WAGL-389, during "DEW" Line support operations, 11 September 1955. US Navy photo from "All Hand" magazine, June 1956.		Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
	111k	USS San Bernardino County (LST-1110) underway during "DEW" Line support operations, September 1955. USCGC Bittersweet (WAGL-389 is doing the icebreaking. Photo by LTjg. Ernest Fuller USCGC Bittersweet.		David Fuller for his father, LTjg. Ernest Fuller USCGC Bittersweet.
	60k	USS San Bernardino County (LST-1110) follows USCGC Bittersweet (WAGL-389 through the ice off Point Barrow, Alaska, to supply one of the radar stations of the DEW (Distant Early Warning) Line, 1955. Note the large concrete block suspended from Bittersweets buoy boom. Before the days of ballast-shifting tanks, icebreaking buoy tenders, such as Bittersweet, would suspend a weight from the boom and shift it from side to side to 'rock' the ship free if it became beset in ice. US National Archives photo # 80-G-709519. a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.		Robert Hurst
80-G-685966	291k	USNS Harris County (T-LST-822), and USS San Bernardino County (LST-1110) unloading over the beach at Point Barrow, Alaska, during "DEW" Line support operations, 16 September 1955. US National Archives photo # 80-G-685966 a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives		Mike Smolinski Glenn Ryerson
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USS San Bernardino (LST-1110)
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)

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Commanding Officers
01	LT. Lee, Alton Salisbury, USNR	7 March 1945 - 28 November 1945
02	LTjg. Beatie, Edwin Orr, USNR	28 November 1945 - 1946
03	LT. Westfall, William Fielding, USN	~1946
04	LT. Semansky, Stanley Andrew, USN	1949 - 1950
05	LT. Sparger, John, USN (USNA 1943)	1950
06	LT. Sipe, Richard Graham	1950 - 1951
07	LT. Sporer, Joseph F.	1952 - ?
08	LT/LCDR. Pringle, Robert Charles, USN	1955 - 21 December 1957
09	ENS. Davis, Dan Rogers, USNR	21 December 1957 15 August 1958

Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves

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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log

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Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
The USS LST Ship Memorial
LST Home Port
State LST Chapters
United States LST Association

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