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USS LST-470

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Foxtrot - Whiskey - Lima
NFWL

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Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Navy Unit Commendation - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (8)
Bottom Row - World War II Victory Medal - Philippines Presidential Unit Citation - Philippine Liberation Medal (2)

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During World War II USS LST-470 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
LST Flotilla Seven, CAPT. R. M. Scruggs, USN;
LST Group Nineteen, CDR. James E. Van Zandt, USNR and participated in the following campaigns:

Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
Eastern New Guinea operation Lae occupation, 4 to 5 and 9 to 11 September 1943 Saidor occupation, 6 to 9, 19 to 19 to 22 and 28 to 39 January 1944	Leyte operation Leyte landings, 13 to 27 October and 5 to 18 November 1944
Bismarck Archipelago operation Cape Gloucester, New Britain, 26 to 29 December 1943 Admiralty Islands landings, 14 to 18 March 1944	Luzon operation Lingayen Gulf landings, 4 to 15 January 1945
Hollandia operation, 21 to 26 April 1944	Consolidation and capture of Southern Philippines Palawan Island landings, 28 February to 1 March 1945 Mindanao Island landings, 17 to 23 April 1945
Western New Guinea operation Biak Island operation, 27 to 29 May and 31 May to 4 June 1944 Cape Sansapor operation, 31 July, 6. 8 to 14 August 1944 Morotai landings, 15 September 1944	Borneo operation Balikpapan operation, 28 June to 7 July 1945

Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 4 November 1947, to Dulien Steel Products, Inc., Seattle, WA.

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Specifications:

Displacement

1,625 t.(lt)

4,080 t.(fl) (sea-going draft w/1675 ton load)

2,366 t. (beaching displacement)

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

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Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Source
	125k	From far to near; USS LST-470, USS LST-220 and LCT-166 beached at Tanamerah Bay, New Guinea, 22 April 1944. US National Archives Record Group 111, Photo #SC 259967. a US Army Signal Corps photo now in the collections of the US National Archives		John Chiquoine
	522k	USS LST-470 at anchor, date and location unknown.		Tom Kaluzny for his father Raymond F. Kaluzny MoMM1/c USS LST-470
	734k	USS LST-470 partial crew photo, date and location unknown.		Tom Kaluzny for his father Raymond F. Kaluzny MoMM1/c USS LST-470
1016047004	543k	A Coast Guard beach party seeks shelter from Japanese fire as USS LST-470 and other LSTs unload tanks and supplies for the advance on Manila, 9 January 1945, when the U.S. task force secured the beachhead on Luzon. US National Archives Identifier 205585594,, Local Identifier 26-G-3840, US Coast Guard Photo # 26-G-3840.		David Upton
	59k	USS LST-470 and USS LST-168 beached, date and location unknown. US Navy photo		US Coast Guard Historian's Office
	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

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USS LST-470
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)

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Commanding Officers
01	LT. McMahan, Richard F., USNR	9 March 1943 - 16 June 1943
02	LT. Ceek, Robert B., USNR	16 June 1943 - 16 December 1943
03	LT. Guthridge, Donald John, USNR	16 December 1943 - 26 September 1944
04	LT. Loring, Michael, USNR	26 September 1944 - 19 July 1945
05	LT. McCarty, Richard E., USNR	19 July 1945 - 26 November 1945
06	LTjg. Gould Jr., Harry J., USNR	26 November 1945 - 4 March 1946

Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves

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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log

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Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
History of LST Flotilla Seven
The USS LST Ship Memorial
LST Home Port
State LST Chapters
United States LST Association

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