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

USS LST-461, 1943-1948.

USS LST-461, a 2366-ton LST-1 class tank landing ship, was built at Vancouver, Washington. Commissioned in February 1943, her wartime service was spent in the Asiatic-Pacific theater. In 1944, she participated in the Saipan, Tinian and Leyte operations. During the first months of 1945, LST-461 took part in landings at Lingayen Gulf and Okinawa. She returned to the United States after the War ended and was decommissioned in September 1947. LST-461 was sold in March 1948.

This page features views of USS LST-461.

If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

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Photo #: 80-G-401019

USS LST-461


Unloading supplies at Majuro Island, Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands, March 1944.
Note loaded truck in the left foreground and many ships anchored in the distance.
Photographed by Lieutenant Commander Charles Kerlee, USNR.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 127KB; 660 x 675 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 
Photo #: 80-G-350133

Tank Landing Ships (LST) and a Barracks Ship (APB) moored together, 1945.


The ships in this group include (from left to right):
An unidentified LST (In the number range from LST-850 through LST-859);
USS LST-461; USS Yavapai (APB-42); USS LST-662; USS LST-672 and USS LST-733.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 69KB; 740 x 585 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 

If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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27 July 1999