LST was laid down August 17, 1943, at Pittsburgh, Pa., by Dravo Corporation and launched October 9th the same year.
It was assigned to the European Theater and participated at D-Day, June 6th and the Normandy operations until June 20th. It was then transfered to the Asian-Pacific Theater, seeing action at Okinawa June 8-30, 1945.
After the war, it did occupation duty in the Far East and China until mid-March 1946. Decommissioned June 11, 1946, it was sold Dec. 4, 1947.
I still don't know why they didn't name these ships.
The Story of a Ship. GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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