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Landing Craft Tank
LCT(6)-1300

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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 Iwo Jima)
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal

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LCT-1300 was transferred to Greece and named HS Kythira (L-185)

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During World War II LCT(6)-1300 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
LCT Flotilla Thirty Nine, at Iwo Jima
LCT Flotilla Thirteen, LCDR. C. P. Lewis, USNR;
LCT Group Forty-Eight, LT. R.T. Capeless, USNR; at Okinawa
LCT Flotilla Twenty Nine, in the Marianas in July 1945

Asiatic-Pacific Campaign
Campaign and Dates
Iwo Jima operation Assault and occupation of Iwo Jima, 2 to 16 March 1945

Final Disposition, fate unknown

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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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Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Contributed By
1016060901 TL 115948783	2336k	Six LSTs loading for their next combat operation moored at Naval Station Pearl Harbor, between 8 December 1944 and 22 January 1945. From left to right; USS LST-609, with an LCT loaded on her main deck (Manila Bay-Bicol operations) USS LST-790,with an LCT loaded on her main deck (Invasion of Iwo Jima) USS LST-641, with LCT(6)-1300 loaded on her main deck (Invasion of Iwo Jima) USS LST-944, (Invasion of Iwo Jima) USS LST-84, (Invasion of Iwo Jima) and USS LST-648, with LCT(6)-1404 loaded on her main deck (Invasion of Iwo Jima) and with an LCI alongside. TimeLife_Image_115948783, 11548889 and 115948888, by W. Eugene Smith. For personal non-commercial use only.		David Upton
1016060902 TL 11548889	2219k
1016060903 TL 115948888.	533k
	30k	LCT(6)-1300 still loaded on the main deck of USS LST-641 which while beached at Iwo Jima on D-Day, 15 February 1945		Fred Wells USS LST-641
1018130001	244k	LCT(6)-1300 and LCT(6)-1245, on the left, beached on Yellow Beach 2, February-March 1945. Bentley Historical Library. University of Michigan		David Upton
1018063204	275k	LCTs on the beach at Iwo Jima, from the left to right; LCT(6)-692, LCT(6)-1245, LCT(6)-630, (off shore), LCT(6)-632, LCT(6)-1154, and LCT(6)-1300, all assigned, except LCT-630, to LCT(6) Group 48 Flot. 16, Transport Group Charlie on the beach at Iwo Jima, between February 25 and March 2 1945. Ref. GR 48 War Diary Feb-Mar. 1945 NA. National Archives Identifier 204982588, Local ID 342-FH-3A42490-A70332AC, US Army Air Corps Photo A-70332A.C.		David Upton

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There is no DANFS history for LCT(6)-1300 available 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
The World War II LCT Flotillas

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