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Landing Craft Tank
LCT(6)-1029

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive, Iwo Jima)
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal
Individual Awards

Purple Hearts for crew members KIA and WIA, 2 March 1945, at Iwo Jima
Landing Craft Tank (Mark 6):
  • Laid down, in March 1944, at Bison Shipbuilding Corp, North Tonawanda, N.Y.
  • Launched, in March 1944
  • Delivered, in April 1944
  • Placed in service, ENS. Robert Lichty, Officer-in-Charge
  • During World War II LCT(6)-1029 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
    LCT Flotilla Sixteen, LCDR Lewis
    Group Forty-Eight, LT. Robert T. Capeless, and participated in the following campaign:

    Asiatic-Pacific Campaign
    Campaign and Dates
    Iwo Jima operation
    Assault and occupation of Iwo Jima, 19 February to 2 March 1945
  • LCT(6)-1029 was driven ashore onto wreckage on the beach at Iwo Jima and holed in her engine room, 2 March 1945
  • Final Disposition, abandoned at Iwo Jima
  • Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown
  • LCT(6)-1029 earned one battle star for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 143 to 160 t.(lt), 309 to 320 t.(fl)
    Length 119' 1" (ovl.)
    Beam 32' 8"
    Draft
    limiting 3' 9"
    maximum navigation 5'
    Speed 10 kts.
    Range 700 nautical miles at 7 kts.
    Complement
    1 officer
    12 enlisted
    Cargo Capacity 150 short tons
    Armament
    two single 20mm AA gun mounts
    four .50 cal. machine guns
    Armor
    wheelhouse 20lbs
    gun shields 10lbs
    Fuel Capacity Diesel 80 Bbls
    Propulsion
    three Grey Marine 6-71 Diesel engines
    two Diesel-drive 10Kw 120V. D.C. Ships' Service Generators
    three propellers, 675shp
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    LSM-242 121k Aerial view of the Iwo Jima beachhead, circa February 1945. Ships that can be identified include;
    USS LST-715,
    USS LST-790,
    USS LST-724,
    USS LST-224,
    USS LST-784 and
    USS LST-779.
    LSM's include;
    USS LSM-242,
    USS LSM-140,
    USS LSM-47, and
    USS LSM-43.
    LCTs include;
    LCT(6)-892, and
    LCT(6)-1029.
    The one lone LCI that is identifiable is USS LCI(L)-1077.
    USMC photo # 110582    		 USS LSM / LSMR Association
    LCT(6)-1029>
    1016102901    		 234k On the right LCT(6)-1029 crew members attempt to salvage what they can from their landing craft after she was driven ashore onto wreckage on the beach at Iwo Jima and holed in her engine room on 2 March 1945
    US Navy photo COMBPHIBGTP2, Wallace Page    		 Dave Way, Historian / Artifact Collections,
    Pacific Battleship Center |
    National Museum of the Surface Navy at the Battleship IOWA
    LCT(6)-1029>
    1016102902    		 226k Iwo Jima, Yellow Beach 1, 2 March 1945, LCT(6)-1029 on the beach after being driven ashore onto wreckage on the beach and holed in her engine room.
    US Navy photo COMBPHIBGTP2, Wallace Page    		 Dave Way, Historian / Artifact Collections,
    Pacific Battleship Center |
    National Museum of the Surface Navy at the Battleship IOWA
    There is no DANFS history available for LCT(6)-1029 at Navsource.
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information Web Sites
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    World War II LCT Flotillas
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    Last Updated 13 May 2022