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USS LST-84

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Golf - Delta - Foxtrot
NGDF

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (5) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)

LST-1 Class Tank Landing Ship:

Laid down, 13 April 1943, at Jeffersonville Boat and Machine Co., Jeffersonville, IN.

Launched, 26 June 1943

Commissioned USS LST-84, 14 August 1943, LT Jack L. Lowentrout, USNR, in command

During World War II USS LST-84 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
LST Flotilla Six, CAPT. Laidlaw, USN (24);
LST Group Eighteen, CDR. P. Neikum Jr., USN (Ret);
LST Division Thirty-Six and participated in the following campaign:

Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
Gilbert Islands operation Tarawa, 21 November to 8 December 1943	Tinian capture and occupation, 24 to 30 July 1944
Marshall Islands operation Occupation of Kwajalein and Majuro Atolls, 1 to 6 February 1944	Iwo Jima operation Assault and occupation of Iwo Jima, 20 February to 14 March 1945
Marianas operation Capture and occupation of Saipan, 15 June to 30 July 1944

USS LST-84 was redesignated Tank Landing Ship (Hospital) LST(H)-84, 15 September 1945

Following World War II USS LST(H)-84 was assigned to Occupation service in the Far East for the following periods:

Navy Occupation Service Medal
12 to 23 December 1945
12 January to 2 March 1946

Decommissioned, 2 March 1946 and turned over to Commander Naval Forces Far East (COMNAVFE) Shipping Control Authority for Japan (SCAJAP), redesignated Q080

Struck from the Naval Register, 31 October 1947

USS LST-84 earned five battle stars for World War II service

Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 20 April 1948, to Bethlehem Steel Co., Seattle, WA.

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

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
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
	76k	A Martin PBM-1 Mariner flies over USS LST-84 in early June 1944. Her deck is crowded with war material for the invasion of Saipan. Real War Photo	Gerd Metthes
1016008402	340k	USS LST-84 and USS LST-724 unload across the beach at Iwo Jima, D plus 11, 2 March 1945. US Navy photo COMBPHIBGTP2 by US Navy photographer Wallace Page	Dave Way, Historian / Artifact Collections, Pacific Battleship Center \| National Museum of the Surface Navy at the Battleship IOWA

USS LST-84
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)

Commanding Officers
01	LT. Lowentrout, Jack Lewis, USNR	14 July 1943 - 17 February 1944
02	LT. Thiele, Eugene H., USNR	17 February 1944 - 15 October 1944
03	LT. Hoppe, Emil Walter, USNR	15 October 1944 - 1945
04	LTjg. Garvin Jr., Clarence A., USNR	1945 - 2 March 1946


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