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LST664 HISTORY LT J. J. CLARKSON Commanding Officer r V The USS 1ST 664 was built by ihc Ambridgc plant of the Amcricjn Bridge Company, Ambridge. Pennsylvania. She was completed on 2 M.,y 1944, and wai precommi.-ioneJ at 10 A.M. of the s.imc date, and at 4 P.M. started her initial voyage down the Ohio River to the Mississippi on her way to the port of New Orleans. La., where she was fully com- missioned and fitted out for sea. Upon completion of her shakedown cruise ..t St. Andrew ' s Bay, Florida, she proceeded to Norfolk, Vj., and joined an East Bound Convoy for the Mediterranean Theatre on 24 June 1944, and served in that theatre until ) July 194!. The LST 664 participated in the init.al assault in the Invasion of Southern Irance on li August 194!, carrying elements of the American equipped French Army from the Island of Corsica to the newly formed beachheads and participated in subsequent shuttle runs originating at Naples, Italy, and Oran, Algeria. During the preliminary conferences between the late President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill on the eve of the Yalta Conference, the LST 664 was ordered on a special mission to Malta to provide living accommodations for members of Joint Chiefs of Staffs. Members of Ship ' s company acted as drivers on the convoy which escorted the President to his plane bound for the conference. The 664 returned to its base in Palermo, Sicily, when it w..s ordered to participate in the removal of the British and Canadian Eighth Army from Northern Italy and Transport their equipment to Southern France. American born Japanese troops were transported on the return shuttle from Southern France to Northern Italy, where the Germans were sur- prised to remake contact with this outfit. After the conclusion of hostilities in Europe, the resulting disagreements between Tito and the British over the City of Trieste necessitated the movement of supplies for the British Army on the Adriatic from the port of Acona to the City of Trieste. Upon release from the Ancona-Tricste area, the LST 664 sailed for Oran, Algeria, where she took on her sea cargo and sailed for New York City arriving 18 July 194!. She discharged her cargo and proceeded up the Mississippi River to Natchez, Mississippi, where she was opened for inspection to the public by Admiral A. S. Merrill. On completion of the Navy Day operations she returned to New Orleans where she was prepared for sea, thence to Little Creek, Vlrg,nia, to serve as a part of the 2nd Active Fleet. She was placed out of commission on 12 October 1949 at Green Cove Springs. Florida. She was recommissioned on 14 December 19! 1 and h.is since served as a unit of ComPhibLant taking part in various exercises at Vieques and in a memorable trip to Thule. Greenland. Throughout her entire tour of duty she has suffered no casualties. Approximately fifty percent of her crew who were aboard at the day she was recommissioned are still serving aboard. I S mm V f « -»«» ice i |N- W VT i ' v first row: Howard J. Boeker, Gilbert B. Sayle, ENS Norman Wendell Burch, Ronald C. Butcher, John J. Semos. . . . Sec- ond row: Azro N. Lindsey, William L. Peterson, Harold E. Olsen, William E. Coley, Joseph R. Randle.
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LST 664 Fint f-ou : Allan James LeClair, Crayton T. Myers, William F. Rodgers, Daniel William Hendricks, Joseph T. Ross. . . . Second row: Richard B. Harris, Alfred J. Boisvert, LTJG Donald E. Lowery, S. J. Baszynski, Alfred J. Fischer. . . . Ti ird row: Gerald M. Grant, Thomas Herman, Theodore B. Covert, Phillip E. Lunt, Richard Lee Tempest, Lester E. Hellem, Francis L. Daly, Lawrence S. Duke, Robert W. Southard. First row: Wade L. O ' Neal, Richard L. Vaughn, James S. Tracey, John A. Hummel, Donald Louis Fuhri, Vernon E. Hamilton, Allen Dantzlcr. . . . Second row: Arthur Robert Turck, Roy Burchctt, Sam Provost, James A. Layton, LTJG John M. Frey, Jesse Waller, Rubin E. Infinger, Manford P. Stewart. . . . Third row: Donald H. Elam, Eli F. Wall, Wil- liam M. Handy, James S. Ginn, Charles L. Schwartz, Carl W. Hitchcock, Robert F. Austin. William R. Gibbs, Dalmbus O. Grumpier, Harry L. Adams, Edward A. Guertin, Semian M. Dearman. . . . Fourth row: Edwin D. Scherer, Jr., Donald F. Glosenger, James H. Jefferson, Charles P. Daniels, Allen P. Swartz, John G. Martin, Oscar Kochler.
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