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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Gunston Hall (LSD-5), 1943-1970

USS Gunston Hall, a 4490-ton Ashland class dock landing ship, was built at Oakland, California. Commissioned in November 1943, she served in the Pacific during World War II, participating in amphibious landings at Kwajalein, Emirau, Hollandia, Guam, Peleliu, Leyte, Luzon, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. In 1946, she supported the Bikini atomic bomb tests. Out of commission between July 1947 and March 1949, she then took part in arctic operations and other Pacific fleet activities.

The outbreak of the Korean War brought Gunston Hall to the Western Pacific. During September and October 1950, she took part in the Inchon and Wonsan operations and remained active in the Korean area until the end of the conflict in mid-1953. For nearly seventeen years thereafter, Gunston Hall made regular deployments to Asian waters and occasional voyages to the Arctic. In 1955, she supported the resettlement of refugees from North to South Vietnam under Operation "Passage to Freedom". She cruised to the Caribbean during the Cuban Missile Crisis in the Fall of 1962. From 1964 into 1970, Gunston Hall was a frequent participant in Vietnam War operations. Decommissioned in May 1970, she was transferred to Argentina, in whose Navy she served under the name Candido de Lasala until disposed of in 1981.

This page features views of USS Gunston Hall (LSD-5).

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Photo #: NH 86539

USS Gunston Hall (LSD-5)


Photographed circa 1945.

Courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN(MSC), 1978.

Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 59KB; 740 x 435 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 96886

USS Gunston Hall (LSD-5)


Photographed during the later 1940s or early 1950s.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 114KB; 740 x 600 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 96879

USS Gunston Hall (LSD-5)


En route to the Wonsan invasion area, 26 October 1950. She was one of many ships in the invasion convoy.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 100KB; 740 x 615 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 96887

USS Gunston Hall (LSD-5)


A Patrol Air Cushion Vehicle (PACV) leaves the ship's well deck, circa January-February 1967, probably in the vicinity of San Diego, California. The PACVs had seen experimental service in South Vietnam's Mekong River Delta.
The original photograph was released by Commander Amphibious Force, Pacific Fleet, on 15 February 1967.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 81KB; 740 x 535 pixels

 

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27 July 1999