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Photo # NH 102408:  USS LST-767 beached, circa 1945

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USS LST-767 (1944-1946)

USS LST-767, a 2366-ton LST-511 class tank landing ship, was built at Ambridge, Pennsylvania. She was commissioned at the end of September 1944, after voyaging down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans, Louisiana, and passed through the Panama Canal to the Pacific Ocean in mid-November. She then went to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, where in mid-December 1944 she took on board military passengers, the tank landing craft LCT-749, pontoon causeway sections and other materiel. Late in the year LST-767 left Hawaii for Leyte, in the Philippine Islands, where she arrived at the beginning of February 1945. During the next two months the landing ship travelled south to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, then returned north to Ulithi, Caroline Islands, and finally, in early April, to Okinawa, arriving a few days after U.S. forces commenced a long and bloody campaign against the island's Japanese defenders.

After launching LCT-749 and disembarking her passengers and their equipment, LST-767 left Okinawa and began several months of transportation service in the central, south and western Pacific. She was in the Solomon Islands when Japan's mid-August 1945 agreement agreed to surrender brought the great Pacific War to an end. During the last part of September LST-767 landed cargo on Okinawa, an undertaking that was interrupted by the need to put to sea to ride out an approaching typhoon. In the early morning darkness of 1 December 1945, while beached at Kana Wan, Okinawa, LST-767 was wrecked by another storm. When it was determined that salvage would be impossible for several months, she was ordered to be stripped and disposed of. USS LST-767 was placed out of commission in early March 1945 and stricken from the Navy list later in that month. Her hulk was later sold, with final disposition taking place in May 1947.

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Photo #: NH 102408

USS LST-767


Beached, with a bulldozer preparing a causeway from her bow ramp to the shore, circa 1945.

Courtesy of Barry Reynolds, 1990, from the collection of Jean Stewart Reynolds.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 59KB; 740 x 550 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 99139

Motor Machinist's Mate 2nd Class Ed Huttenhoff, USCGR


On a beach, with USS LST-767 behind him, circa 1945. He was a member of that ship's Coast Guard crew.

Courtesy of Barry Reynolds, 1990, from the collection of Jean Stewart Reynolds.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 86KB; 740 x 525 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 102411

USS LST-767


Ship's commissioning crew, photographed circa September-October 1944. She had a U.S. Coast Guard crew.
Her Commanding Officer, Litutenant R.B. Seidman, USCGR, is seated in the front row, center. Arrows point to Ed Huttenhoff (near the back, just to right of center) and Jean Stewart Reynolds (center row, near the right).

Courtesy of Barry Reynolds, 1990, from the collection of Jean Stewart Reynolds.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 142KB; 740 x 595 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 99145

USS LCT-749


On board USS LST-767. She was loaded on the LST at Pearl Harbor on 10 December 1944 and launched off Okinawa on 3 April 1945. The pontoon causeway sections visible on LST-767's sides were loaded on 14 December 1944 and launched during the night of 2-3 April 1945.

Courtesy of Barry Reynolds, 1990, from the collection of Jean Stewart Reynolds.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 50KB; 740 x 495 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 99146

USS LCT-749


Launched from on board USS LST-767, off Okinawa on 3 April 1945. The LCT had been put aboard the LST at Pearl Harbor on 10 December 1944.

Courtesy of Barry Reynolds, 1990, from the collection of Jean Stewart Reynolds.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 515 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 99140

USS LST-767


Beached at Okinawa in 1945, with local residents carrying supplies ashore.

Courtesy of Barry Reynolds, 1990, from the collection of Jean Stewart Reynolds.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 65KB; 740 x 515 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 99141

USS LST-767


Okinawan civilians carry supplies ashore from the ship, 1945.

Courtesy of Barry Reynolds, 1990, from the collection of Jean Stewart Reynolds.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 84KB; 740 x 510 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 102410

USS LST-767


Landing personnel via breeches buoy, after she had been driven ashore on Okinawa by a storm on 1 December 1945.

Courtesy of Barry Reynolds, 1990, from the collection of Jean Stewart Reynolds.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 83KB; 740 x 565 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 101692

USS LST-767


Beached on Okinawa, after being wrecked by a hurricane on 1 December 1945.

Courtesy of Dr. Herbert F. Gabriel, DDS, 1987.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 66KB; 740 x 575 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 99142

USS LST-767


Wrecked on a rocky Okinawa beach, after being driven ashore by a storm on 1 December 1945.

Courtesy of Barry Reynolds, 1990, from the collection of Jean Stewart Reynolds.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 63KB; 740 x 520 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 102409

USS LST-767


Wrecked on a rocky Okinawa beach, after she had been driven ashore by a typhoon on 1 December 1945.

Courtesy of Barry Reynolds, 1990, from the collection of Jean Stewart Reynolds.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 83KB; 740 x 535 pixels

 


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