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Landing Craft Tank LCT-524
Landing Ship Utility LSU-524
Landing Craft Utility LCU-524
Harbor Utility Craft YFU-1

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, Normandy)
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal
Landing Craft Tank (Mark 6) / YFU-1 Class Harbor Utility Craft:
  • Laid down, 22 July 1943, at Bison Shipbuilding Corp., Buffalo, N.Y.
  • Launched, 25 August 1943
  • Delivered 17 September 1943
  • During World War II LCT-524 was assigned to the European Theater LCT Flotilla 4, LCDR Louis E. Hubbard, in command, and participated in the:
  • Redesignated Landing Ship Utility LSU-524 in 1949
  • Redesignated Landing Craft Utility LCU-524, 15 April 1956
  • Reclassified Harbor Utility Craft YFU-1, 18 May 1958
  • Place out of service (date unknown)
  • Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown)
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 143 to 160 t.(lt), 309 to 320 t.(fl)
    Length 119' 1" (ovl)
    Beam 32' 8"
    Draft 5'; (max)
    Speed 10 kts.
    Range 700 nautical miles at 7 kts.
    Complement 14
    Cargo Capacity 150 short tons
    Armament 2 single 20mm AA gun mounts, 4 .50 cal. machine guns
    Armor 20lbs wheelhouse, 10lbs gun shield
    Propulsion 3 Grey Marine Diesels, 3 propellers, Shaft horsepower 225 per shaft
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    LCT-524 86k LCT-524 beached at Slapton Sands, England, 10 February 1944.
    National Archives photo from motion picture    		 Bill Brinkley
    LCT-524 150k LCT-524 unloads the first Liberty ship to enter Cherbourg harbor. With no deep-draft berths yet available, cargos were unloaded and ferried to the shore by LCTs. US National Archives photo. Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
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