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Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns |
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| Campaign and Dates | Campaign and Dates |
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| Bismarck Archipelago operation
Cape Gloucester, New Britain, 23 to 26 February 1944 Admiralty Islands landings, 14 to 18 March 1944 | Leyte operation
Leyte landings, 13 to 28 October and 9 to 29 November 1944 |
| Hollandia operation, 21 to 27 April, 28 April to 6 May and 8 to 14 May 1944 | Consolidation and capture of Southern Philippines
Visayan Islands landings, 26 March, 2 to 4 and 9 to 10 April 1945 |
| Western New Guinea operation
Toem-Wakde-Sarmi area operation, 17 to 18 and 23 to 25 May 1944 Biak Island operation, 6 to 19 and 14 to 20 June 1944 Noemfoor Island operation, 4 to 10 July 1944 Cape Sansapor operation, 31 July, 6, 8 to 14, 16 to 22 August 1944 Morotai landings, 15 September 1944 | Borneo operation
Balikpapan operation, 28 June to 10 July 1945 |
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1332k | LSTs, including USS LST-181, USS LST-168, USS LST-206 and USS LST-245 beached at the loading area at Cape Sudest, New Guinea, 12 March 1944. US National Archives photo # III-SC 271518, Box 504, a US Army Signal Corps photo, by LT E. Commings, now in the collections of the US National Archives. |
Dave Kerr | |
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27k | USS LST-181 beached at Aitape, New Guinea, 22 April 1944. | Photo by S. N. Johnson EM2/c USNR USS LST-181 plank owner | |
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545k | USS LST-181 beached a Morotai Island in the Halmaheras , probably 15 September 1944. In the foreground litter bears are moving a
wounded soldier onto an LCVP to transport him to a ship off shore that has proper medical facilities to care for the wounded.
US National Archives Identifier 205586173, Local Identifier 26-G-71-2903 US Coast Guard Photo # 2903. |
David Upton | |
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466k | Two 37mm shells from a Japanese shore battery strike USS LST-181 while approaching Red Beach, the northern Leyte beachhead.
The enemy gun positions were wiped out by infantry 15 minutes after the hits. Narrowly missed by the Japanese gunfire was a Coast Guard-manned LST at right.
A Coast Guard combat photographer took this photo from Red Beach, 20 October 20, 1944, around 1100 hrs.
USS LST 452, USS 171, and USS LST-181 come under fire from Japanese morters.
Fires were put out by firefighting LCIs sent to their aid. USS LST-181 was hit several times this day by Japanese mortars and batteries.
US National Archives Identifier 205585537, Local Identifier 26-G-71-007 US Coast Guard Photo # 007. |
David Upton | |
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887k | Christmas 1945 and New Years 1946 greetings from Commander LST Group Nineteen, CDR James E. Van Zandt USNR to the ships of the Group:
USS LST-466 USS LST-245 USS LST-467 USS LST-171 USS LST-181 USS LST-469 USS LST-470 USS LST-471 USS LST-468 USS LST-473 USS LST-475 and USS LST-474 |
Bill James for his father William James USS LST-471 | |
| Commanding Officers | ||
| 01 | LT. Sheahan, William F., USNR | 21 August 1943 - 1 July 1944 |
| 02 | LT. Wilson, Robert J., USNR | 1 July 1944 - 1945 |
| 03 | LTjg. Lynch, Charles, V., USNR | 1945 - ? |
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