A History of the LST-49

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