USS LST-391
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Other uses". Template:Use dmy dates
| Script error: No such module "InfoboxImage".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". |
USS LST-391 was an Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". built for the United States Navy during World War II. LST-391 was laid down 14 July 1942 at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company of Newport News, Virginia, launched 28 October 1942, sponsored by Miss Katherine Wendell Blewett, and commissioned 3 December 1942.
During World War II, LST-391 was assigned to the European Theater and participated in the Sicilian occupation (July 1943), Salerno landings (September 1943), and the Invasion of Normandy (June 1944).
LST-391 earned three battle stars for World War II service.
Renamed USS Bowman County (LST-391) on 1 July 1955 for Bowman County, North Dakota, she was the only U.S. Naval vessel to bear the name. She was transferred to Greece in May 1960 for service in the Royal Hellenic Navy and renamed Rodos (L157) where she remained in service until 1997.[1]
Image of this LST at 13:47 in the video at http://burnpit.legion.org/2015/02/my-story-about-thule-operation-blue-jay
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ Former USS Bowman County LST 391 Hellenic Navy, History
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Public Domain This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- LST-391 seen at 13:25 in the video at http://burnpit.legion.org/2015/02/my-story-about-thule-operation-blue-jay
- Pages with script errors
- Pages with ignored display titles
- Pages with broken file links
- Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
- LST-1-class tank landing ships of the United States Navy
- Ships built in Newport News, Virginia
- 1942 ships
- World War II amphibious warfare vessels of the United States
- Bowman County, North Dakota