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Subject: LST 562 Author: OLD SEA DOG [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 11/ 6/09 07:27:34 LST-562 LST-562 was laid down on 28 February 1944 at Evansville, Ind., by the Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co.; launched on 28 April 1944; sponsored by Mrs. D. A. Nordeen; and commissioned on 18 May 1944. During World War II, LST-562 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific theater and participated in the Morotai landings in September 1944 and the Tarakan Island operation in April and May 1945. Following the war, LST-562 performed occupation duty in the Far East until mid-December 1945. She was decommissioned on 21 May 1946 and struck from the Navy list on 3 July that same year. On 19 April 1948, the ship was sold to the Bethlehem Steel Co., of Bethlehem, Pa., and subsequently scrapped. LST-562 earned two battle stars for World War II service. LST-562 and LST-584 beached at Morotai, 30 May 1945 while Australian Army troops of 2/19th Transport Platoon load the units DUKWs aboard for transport to North Borneo and "Operation Oboe 6". Australian War Memorial photo # 108519. LST-911 (far left) beached along with LST-562, LST-613 and an unidentified LST, date and place unknown [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]