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USS Ford County (LST-772)
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USS LST-772 (1944 - 1955)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Golf - Papa - Foxtrot
NGPF

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Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons



Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - China Service Medal (extended) - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1)
Second Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Medal (with Asia clasp) - National Defense Service Medal
Third Row - Korea Service Medal (6) - United Nations Korea Service Medal - Republic of Korea War Service Medal (retroactive)

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During World War II USS LST-772 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
LST Flotilla Twenty-Three CAPT. W. W. Weeden Jr., USN;
LST Group Sixty-Seven, CDR V. A. King USN;
LST Division One Hundred Thirty-Four and participated the following campaign:

Asiatic-Pacific Campaign
Campaign and Dates
Okinawa Gunto operation Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 1 to 29 June 1945

Following World War II USS LST-772 was assigned to Occupation service in the Far East for the following periods:

Navy Occupation Service Medal
29 September to 26 October 1945
17 November to 9 December 1945

During the Korean War USS LST-772 participated in the following campaigns:

Korean War Campaigns
Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
Communist China Spring Offensive 21 May to 7 June 1951	Korean Defense Summer-Fall 1952 19 to 30 November 1952
UN Summer-Fall Offensive 10 to 25 July 1951 1 August to 2 September 1951 3 to 27 November 1951	Third Korean Winter 11 to 31 December 1952 27 to 28 January 1953 11 to 14 February 1953 27 February to 6 March 1953 14 to 19 March 1953 11 to 30 April 1953
Second Korean Winter 28 November to 8 December 1951 11 to 12 January 1952	Korea, Summer-Fall 1953 1 to 27 May 1953 18 to 20 June 1953 13 and 24 to 27 July 1953

Final Disposition, destroyed as a target ship, 19 March 1958

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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
	339k	USS LST-772 underway, date and location unknown. US National Archives Photo # USN 1045632 from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command		Mike Smolinski
1016077204	316k	USS LST-772 and USS LST-803 berthed at Long Beach Naval Shipyard, 15 December 1953. U.S. National Archives, Riverside photo, a U.S. Navy photo now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives.		Dave Schroeder and John Chiquoine
	135k	USS LST-772 moored at Nagoya, Japan in 1955.		Terrence Maher Mike Smolinski
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USS LST-772 / USS Ford County (LST-772)
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)

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Commanding Officers
01	LT. Nieman, George J., USNR	13 November 1944 - December 1945
02	LT. Aldridge, Delo M. J., USNR	December 1945 - 3 July 1946
	Decommissioned	3 July 1946 - 3 November 1950
03	LT. Drake, John Francis, USN	1954 - 24 October 1956
04	LT. Wineman, Gordon Lee, USN	24 October 1956 - 22 November 1957
05	ENS/LTjg. Kielty, Francis, W., USN	22 November 1957 - 22 January 1958

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
The USS LST Ship Memorial
LST Home Port
State LST Chapters
United States LST Association

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