Name USS LST-357 Commissioned 8 February 1943 Struck 31 July 1946 Construction started 24 October 1942 Length 100 m | Laid down 24 October 1942 Decommissioned 8 June 1946 Honours andawards 3 battle stars Launched 16 November 1942 Builder Charleston Naval Shipyard | |
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USS LST-357 was an LST-1-class tank landing ship of the United States Navy active during the Second World War. Whilst never formally named, she was nicknamed Palermo Pete by her crew.
She was laid down in October 1942 at the Charleston Navy Yard, and commissioned in February 1943.
LST-357 first saw service at the invasion of Sicily in July 1943, and then at the Salerno landings in September, where a crew of just under 150 all ranks took some 90 casualties. 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 June 1946 and sold for scrapping in April 1948.
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