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Landing Craft Tank
LCT(6)-1000

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (3) - World War II Victory Medal
Bottom Row - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - Philippines Presidential Unit Citation - Philippines Liberation Medal
Landing Craft Tank (Mark 6):
  • Laid down, 29 March 1944, at Pidgeon-Thomas Iron Co., Memphis, TN.
  • Launched, 21 April 1944
  • Delivered, 29 April 1944
  • Placed in service, date unknown, ENS. Frank Havlik, USNR, Officer-in-Charge
  • During World War II LCT(6)-1000 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
    LCT Flotilla Thirteen, LCDR. L. L. Tower, USN (21)
     LCT Group Thirty-Eight LT. K. R. A. Gross USNR and participated in the following campaigns:

    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Marianas operation
    Capture and occupation of Saipan, 11 June to 10 August 1944
    Capture and occupation of Guam, 12 July to 15 August 1944     		Consolidation and Capture of Southern Philippines
    Mindanao Island Landings, Zamboanga, 14 March 1945
    Tinian capture and occupation
    24 July to 1 August 1944     		 

  • Following World War II LCT(6)-1000 was assigned to Occupation Service in the Far East from 29 October 1945 to 1 January 1947
  • Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown
  • LCT(6)-1000 earned three battle stars for World War II service
  • Final Disposition, sunk off Iwo Jima by US Navy patrol aircraft by bombing, 14 April 1947
    Specifications:
    Displacement 143 to 160 t.(lt), 309 to 320 t.(fl)
    Length 119' 1" (ovl.)
    Beam 32' 8"
    Draft
    limiting 3' 9"
    maximum navigation 5'
    Speed 10 kts.
    Range 700 nautical miles at 7 kts.
    Complement
    1 officer
    12 enlisted
    Cargo Capacity 150 short tons
    Armament
    two single 20mm AA gun mounts
    four .50 cal. machine guns
    Armor
    wheelhouse 20lbs
    gun shields 10lbs
    Fuel Capacity Diesel 80 Bbls
    Propulsion
    three Grey Marine 6-71 Diesel engines
    two Diesel-drive 10Kw 120V. D.C. Ships' Service Generators
    three propellers, 675shp
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    LCT-1000
    1018100001    		 158k LCT(6)-1000, LCT-1119, LCT-1095 at Zamboanga, Mindanao, P.I., 14 March 1945.
    U.S. Army Signal Corps Photo # 263799. Local Identifier 111-SCA-2975. National Archives Identifier 80683228 page 82.    		 David Upton
    ABSD-6
    09670608    		 674k USS ABSD-6 in Apra Harbor, Guan, circa July 1945 with nine LCTs and one LCI(L) in her dock including;
    LCT-1177, LCT-1000, LCT-801 LCT-910 LCT-1337 and an unidentified LCI(L)
    US Navy photo    		 Joe Johnson for CDR. Robert Haven USNR
    There is no history available for LCT(6)-1000 at Navsource
    Officers in Charge
    01ENS. Havlik, Frank, USNRno dates
    02ENS. Swenson, Ferd, USNRno dates
    03ENS. Armstrong, D. W., USNRMay 1945
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information Web Sites
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    World War II LCT Flotillas
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