USS LST-1073, a 1625-ton LST-511 class tank landing ship built at Hingham, Massachusetts, was commissioned in April 1945. She transited from the East Coast to Pearl Harbor in June and July, carrying a cargo of ammunition and landing craft, then proceeded toward the western Pacific, where she arrived after Japan's surrender. During the last months of 1945 and the first weeks of 1946, LST-1073 operated between Japan and the Philippines. Returning to the U.S. in February 1946, she was decommissioned in August of that year and placed in reserve at Astoria, Washington.
LST-1073 was recommissioned in early November 1950, some months after the outbreak of the Korean War prompted a great expansion of U.S. Navy force levels. During that conflict she deployed twice to the war zone and continued periodic cruises in Asian waters after the fighting ended in July 1953. At the beginning of July 1955 she was renamed Outagami County (LST-1073). Among her many activities, in 1963 the LST engaged in mid-Pacific oceanographic surveys and in 1965 assisted a merchant ship that had gone aground in the Aleutians.
In early 1966 Outagami County began the first of three Southeast Asian combat deployments, during which she provided logistics support to forces fighting in South Vietnam. The third was a long one, beginning in November 1968 and extended when her home port was changed to Guam in May 1969. During some of this time she also operated in the central Pacific. Outagami County left Guam in September 1970, arriving at Orange, Texas some two months later. She was decommissioned there in May 1971 and transferred to Brazil. Renamed Garcia D'Avila, she served in that nation's navy until sold for scrapping in July 1990.
This page features all the views we have related to USS Outagami County (LST-1073) and USS LST-1073.
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In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold other views of USS Outagami County (LST-1073) and USS LST-1073. The following list features some of these images:
The images listed below are NOT in
the Naval Historical Center's collections.
DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our
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USS LST-1073 underway, circa the early or mid-1950s. This photograph was received by the Naval Photographic Center in December 1959, but was probably taken several years earlier. Starboard bow aerial view. As USN 1045995, but port bow surface view of the ship underway in a harbor. USS Outagami County (LST-1073) in a harbor, 17 June 1957. Starboard bow surface view. The ship appears to be moving very slowly, if at all. USS Outagami County (LST-1073) underway in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, August 1961. Port broadside surface view. A palm frond dominates the upper left portion of the image. USS Outagami County (LST-1073) underway on 2 November 1966. Photographed by PH3 Keller. Starboard bow aerial view.
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17 September 2004