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Landing Craft Tank
LCT(5)-195

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Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive 6 June 1944)
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal (3) - World War II Victory Medal

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During World War II LCT(5)-195 was assigned to the Europe-Africa-Middle East Theater:
LCT Flotilla Eighteen; LCDR. A. Hayes;
LCT Group Fifty-Three and participated in the following campaigns:

Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaigns
Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
Sicilian occupation, 9 to 16 July 1943	Invasion of Normandy - Omaha Beach 6 to 25 June 1944 Transported 1st Platoon, C Battery 197th AAA AW (SP) Battalion, Platoon Commander LT. Loeb
Salerno landings, 9 to 21 September 1943

Final Disposition, fate unknown

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Specifications:
Displacement 285 t.(fl)
Length 114' 2" (o.a.)
Beam 32' 8"

Draft

limiting 3' 6"

max.navigational 3' 6"

Speed 10 kts.

Range 700 nautical miles at 7 kts.

Complement

1 officer

10 enlisted

Cargo Capacity 150 short tons

Armament

two single 20mm AA gun mounts

two .50 cal. machine guns

Armor

wheelhouse 2 1/2"

gun shields 2"

Fuel Capacity Diesel 80 Bbls

Propulsion

three Grey Marine 6-71 Diesel engines

one Diesel-drive 20Kw 120V. D.C. Ships' service generator

three propellers, 675shp

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Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Contributed By
1018019501	187k	LCT(5)-195 unloads trucks onto the American sector of the Salerno Beachhead, near Paestum, Italy in September 1943. Frame from a short film named "Invasion Force and Action, Off Salerno, Italy" National Archives ID 16475. Local ID 111-ADC-2671. Department of the Army		David Upton
	126k	From left to right; LCT(5)-199, LCT(5)-195 and LCT(5)-20 at Portland-Hard, Dorset while loading for the Invasion of Normandy, 5 June 1944. Embarked in LCT(5)-199 is the 2nd Platoon A Battery 197th AAA AW (SP) Battalion while 1st Platoon command track backs onto LCT(5)--195. LCT(5)-20 (far right) is loaded with 2nd Platoon of C Battery. Photo #PL25481 courtesy Imperial War Museum		Photo contributed by Robert Hurst, Caption contributed by Pat Lewis.
1018003409	355k	LCT(5)-216, LCT(5)-222, LCT(5)-34 and LCT(5)-195 moored, date and location unknown.
1018014906	171k	View of the east end of the Mulberry 'A' Artificial harbor off Omaha Beach, showing the Gooseberry breakwater of sunken ships and unloading operations at the shoreline. Among the vessels on the beach are LCT(5)-149 at left, and LCT(5)-195 just to the right of center. Photographed by the Office of Strategic Services. It was received by the Naval Photographic Science Laboratory, 21 November 1944, but actually taken in June of that year. Note beached seamen with their gear in the center foreground, and Royal Navy vehicle at the extreme lower left. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command photo # 80-G-286424		Robert Hurst

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There is no history available for LCT(5)-195 at Navsource

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

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Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
World War II LCT Flotillas

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