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Landing Craft Tank
LCT(6)-1030

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive - Iwo Jima) - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
Landing Craft Tank (Mark 6):
  • Laid down, 8 March 1944, at Bison Shipbuilding Corp, North Tonawanda, N.Y.
  • Launched, 19 March 1944
  • Delivered, 13 April 1944
  • Placed in service, ENS. Wilbert Darling USNR Officer-in-Charge (May 1945)
  • During World War II LCT(6)-1030 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
    LCT Flotilla Sixteen, LCDR C.P Lewis USNR;
     LCT Group Forty-Eight, LT. Robert T. Capeless USNR at Iwo Jima and
    LCT Flotilla Twenty-Nine, LCDR. E.D. Gasson USNR;
     LCT Group Eighty-Five, LT. G.S. Rehfield, USNR in the Marianas Islands from July 1945 and participated in the following campaign:

    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates
    Iwo Jima operation
    Assault and occupation of Iwo Jima, 19 February to 16 March 1945
  • LCT(6)-1030 also served at Ulithi and Saipan in August 1944
  • Following World War II LCT-1030 performed occupation duty at Iwo Jima until placed out of service in April 1946
  • Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown)
  • LCT(6)-1030 earned one battle star for World War II service
  • Final Disposition, sunk off Iwo Jima by US Navy patrol aircraft by bombing, 14 April 1946
    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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    LST 785 63k LSTs and other shipping in the transport area off Iwo Jima on the initial day of landings, 19 February 1945. The four closest LSTs are (left to right): USS LST-785, USS LST-782 (carrying LCT(6)-1030), USS LST-764 and USS LST-795. Photographed from USS Hansford (APA-106).
    US Navy photo # 80-G-303902 from the collections of the US Naval History an Heritage Command    		 Tom Hughes for his father David C. Hughes USS LST-795
    LST 782
    1016078207    		 116k USS LST-782 in the transport area off Iwo Jima, 19 February 1945 with LCT-1030 on deck.
    Frames from a short film called "Amphibious Invasion of Iwo Jima, H-Hour Minus One". Dept. of the Navy. National Archives ID 80201, Local ID 428-NPC-15841.    		 David Upton
    LCT-1030 30k LCT(6)-1030 beached alongside USS LST-731 during the assault and occupation of Iwo Jima, circa 19 February to 16 March 1945.
    US Navy photo    		 Gerd Metthes
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