Name USS LST-355 Sponsored by Mrs. Wendell E. Kraft Decommissioned 6 March 1946 Construction started 7 September 1942 Length 100 m | Laid down 7 September 1942 Commissioned 22 December 1942 Struck 31 October 1947 Launched 16 November 1942 Builder Charleston Naval Shipyard | |
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USS LST-355 was an LST-1-class tank landing ship of the United States Navy active during the Second World War.
She was laid down in September 1942 at the Charleston Navy Yard, sponsored by Mrs. Wendell E. Kraft and commissioned in December 1942. Lt. Norman L. Knipe, Jr., USNR, in command.
LST-355 first saw service at the invasion of Sicily in July 1943, and then at the Salerno landings in September. In 1944 she moved to England to support the Normandy landings, landing on Omaha Beach on D-Day.
Following the end of the war, she served on occupation duties in the Far East, before being decommissioned in March 1946 and sold for scrapping in April 1948 to Consolidated Builders, Inc., Seattle, Wash.
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