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Landing Craft Tank
LCT(6)-541

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive)
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal
Personnel Awards

Purple Heart - 2 WIA, Normandy, 6 June 1944
Landing Craft Tank (Mark 6) Class:
  • Laid down, 6 September 1943, at Bison Shipbuilding Corp, North Tonawanda, N.Y.
  • Launched, 19 September 1943
  • Delivered, 14 October 1943
  • During World War II LCT(6)-541 was assigned to the Europe-Africa-Middle East Theater, LCT Flotilla Nineteen, LCDR Pruet and participated in the following campaign:

    Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign
    Campaign and Dates
    Invasion of Normandy, 6 to 25 June 1944
  • Placed out of service, date unknown
  • Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown
  • LCT(6)-541 earned one battle star for world War II service
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown.
    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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    1018054103    		 71k LCT(5)-541 approaching Easy Red Beach, Wave 8, about 0800 hours. LCT(5)-541 took two hits, the helmsman and throttleman were wounded when the clutch mechanism was shot away and one other hit below the waterline port side.
    Frames from a short film named "LCIs Leave England for Invasion, Convoy At Anchor, Troops Land in France, LST Sinks, Unloading Activities." National Archives ID 77077; Local ID 428-NPC-4359. Dept. of the Navy. Filmed by PH3/c Gilbert J. DeStefano US Coast Guard onboard LCI(L)88./i>    		 David Upton
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    1018054104    		 114k
    LCT-541
    1018054105    		 109k
    LCT-541
    1018054106    		 95k
    LCT-551 39k View looking west on "Omaha" Beach during resupply operations, 1 July 1944. Note the wrecked U.S. LCI(L) by the shoreline in the center, with a broached British LCT further to the right. LCT(6)-551 and LCT(6)-541 (partially visible) are beached at right.
    US National Archives photo # SC 206826 a US Army Signal Corps photograph now in the collections of the US National Archives.    		 US Naval History and Heritage Command
    LCT-541 39k LCT(6)-541 beached at Normandy, date unknown.
    US National Archives photo from film    		 Bill Brinkley
    LCT-541 48k LCT(6)-541 under way off the Normandy beachhead, June 1944. Philippe Gonzales
    LCT-602 85k Crew of LCT(6)-541 and LCT(6)-602 moored at NAB Little Creek, VA., 1945. CDR. Michael G. Kapnas, USNR Ret (OIC LCT-602)
    There is no history for LCT(6)-541 available at Navsource
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information Web Sites
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    World War II LCT Flotillas
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