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

USS LST-738 (1944-1944)

USS LST-738, a 2366-ton LST-511 class tank landing ship, was built at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She was commissioned in May 1944 and sent to the Pacific for war service. LST-738 participated in the Leyte invasion in October 1944 and the Mindoro invasion in December. On 15 December 1944, while off Mindoro, she was hit by a Japanese Kamikaze plane and set ablaze. After attempts to control the fires were unsuccessful, LST-738 was sunk by the guns of other ships of the invasion fleet.

This page features our only view of USS LST-738.

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Photo #: NH 97259

Mindoro Invasion, December 1944


USS LST-738 burning after she was hit by a Kamikaze off the Mindoro landing beaches, 15 December 1944. USS Moale (DD-693) is nearby.
Note hole in LST-738's starboard side, just forward of the large "738" painted there.
Smoke in the left distance may be from LST-472, which was also hit by the Kamikaze attack.

Collection of Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, USN.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 96KB; 740 x 625 pixels

 


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25 February 2000