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ships history: The U.S.S. LST 898 was built in the late years ol: World War ll, lust in time to participate in the invasion ol: Okinawa. The keel was laid in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, launched sideways and, manned by a terry crew, floated down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans, Louisiana For completion. She served with distinction in the Okinawa invasion and after World War ll, was turned over to the U.S. Army for transport duty. The LST 898 was decommissioned in l9ll6 and in l950 she was pressed into service to supply ammunition and food to South Korean and American soldiers fighting the Communist aggressors in South Korea. She participated in the lnchon invasion. For heroic duty in the Korean conflict, the ship as part ol: a task unit was awarded the coveted Navy Unit Commendation. After completing an artic operation, the ship was officially named the U.S.S. Lincoln County CLST 8985, honoring some 211 counties in the United States. In 1956 the ship made a cruise to Alaska and in July l958 she was called to l-lawaii to stand by in the Lebanon crisis. ln September ot that year she was transferred from Amphibious Squadron One in San Diego to Amphibious Squadron Seven in Long Beach, California. She participated in local operations until her departure for the Western Pacific Li February l960.
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editors forward: THIS CRUISE BOOK IS DEDICATED, NOT TO TI-IE CREW AS MOST CRUISE EFT BEHIND, THE WIFES, SWEETI-IEARTS, BOOKS ARE, BUT TO THE ONES L CHILDREN, PARENTS, FRIENDS. IT IS HOPED THAT THEY, WHXILE BROWSING ET A BETTER' UNDERSTANDING, NOT OF THE THROUGH THIS BOOK, WILL G NAVY AND HER IRON SHIPS, BUT OF THE MEN THAT MAN THEM. It is this Editors opinion that, to accurately portray a six months tour ol: a Navy ship and the lite led by her crew, it would talce boolcs similiar in thickness' to the Los Angeles Telephone Boolc, Websters Dictionary and Boatswains Mate Third combined. We didn't have the budget, time and talent to do this. This editor has served on three ships and talcen short cruises on dozens ol: others. I have lived and worked on the Lincoln, I have listened to the gripes and praises ol: many men that have lived and worlced on the Lincoln, I have seen the product ol: thousands of man hours ol: worlc manifested in the ships Food, her quarterdeclc, her main declc, her guns, her engines, her signal bridge, her, compartments, her Officers Country, her Ships Office, her Sick Bay, on and on and on. Because of these experiences l sincerely believe that the Lincoln is the BEST ship in the fleet. For this reason l consider it,an honor and a privdlege to have been allowed an attempt to portray the Lincoln and l'ler men in the humble confines of this boolc. THE EDITORS
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