Tank Landing Ship LST-478 (original) (raw)
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158k | Plan view aft of USS LST-478 at Navy Yard Mare Island, 13 March 1943, undergoing an inclining experiment.Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 1772-43. | Darryl Baker |
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1634k | USS LST-478 and USS LST-20 unloading on the beach at Kiska Island, Alaska, 23 August 1943. Just visible In the distance is the Japanese cargo ship Nozina Maru, beached by the Japanese after bombing by American forces.US National Archives photo # III-SC 182872, Box 187, a US Army Signal Corps photo by PFC Sanderson now in the collections of the US National Archives. | Dave Kerr |
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168k | USS LST-478 unloading equipment onto the beach at Kiska Island, Alaska. The beach is strewn with barracks bags and boxes of gear or supplies; a bulldozer operates along shore.US Navy BUAIR photo #5603, Bureau of Aeronautics Photograph Collection, Kiska, 1943. ASL-PCA-430. Alaska Digital Archives ID ASL-P430-26. Alaska Historical Collections | David Upton |
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118k | USS LST-478 beached at Okinawa after the Invasion of Okinawa Gunto campaign has ended, circa second half of 1945.Photo by Frederick C. Keller. | Donn Cuson |
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199k | Plan view amidships looking aft of USS LST-478 at Navy Yard Mare Island, 17 August 1945. USS LST-487 is aft of her and various yard craft and barges are to the right. Beyond the causeway is YHB-2 (Port of Stockton) and the never to be completed USS Creamer (DE-308),USS Ely (DE-309) and USS Delbert W. Halsey (DE-310).Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 6007-45. | Darryl Baker |
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47k | USS LST-478 moored pierside at Navy Yard Mare Island, 17 August 1945 | LST Home Port Web Site |
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1223k | ExUSS LST-478 passing under the Golden Gate Bridge in 1946 outbound to sea enroute to Japan stripped on her armament to serve under Commander Naval Forces Far East (COMNAVFE) Shipping Control Authority for Japan (SCAJAP) as Q001 US Navy photo from Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum | Darryl Baker |
USS LST-478
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)
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| 01 | LT. Holmshaw Jr., Harry Fred, USN (USNA 1936) | 13 March 1943 - 24 September 1943 |
| 02 | LT. Aderhold, Leon W., USNR | 24 September 1943 - 9 March 1944 |
| 03 | LT. McCormick Jr., Jack C., USNR | 9 March 1944 - 20 January 1945 |
| 04 | LTjg. Tennyson, Scott P., USNR | 20 January 1945 - 7 April 1945 |
| 05 | LT. Bradford, G.K., USNR | 7 April 1945 - December 1945 |
| 06 | LTjg. Long, Fletcher J., USNR | December 1945 - 23 March 1946 |
| Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves |
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