U.S.S. LST-847 WW II Landing Ship, Tank
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Introduction

LST-847 as it appeared on 28 June 1945 while off the coast of Saipan.

These pages attempt to tell the story of the U.S.S. LST-847, which was a 511 Class Tank Landing Ship that was manned by U.S. Navy personnel. During 1945-46, she saw duty in the Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Ryukyu Islands, Philippine Islands, French Indo-China, China and Japan.

Additional photo information: the two large objects lashed to each side of the ship are pontoons that were brought to the war theatre for use as wharves, docks, piers, barges and causeways for rapid unloading of LSTs. Each pontoon consisted of 36 hollow sheet steel boxes that were welded together to form a floating structure. They were unloaded by flooding one side of the LST's ballast tanks and then releasing the attachments that held them in place.

LST-847's repatriation duty figures prominently in Lung Ying-tai's 2009 book “Da Jiang Da Hai 1949” (Big River, Big Sea - Untold Stories of 1949).
Click here for more information and to read a rough English translation of Chapters 40 through 49.

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