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USS ''Pitkin County'' (LST-1082) was an built for the United States Navy during World War II. Named after Pitkin County, Colorado, she was the only U.S. Naval Vessel to bear the name. Originally laid down as ''LST-1082'' on 18 November 1944 by the American Bridge Company of Ambridge, Pennsylvania. The ship was launched on 26 January 1945, sponsored by Mrs. Stephen Anzio; departed Ambridge on 26 January 1945 under a ferry crew which piloted her down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to the U.S. Naval Repair Base, Algiers, Louisiana; and commissioned at New Orleans on 7 February 1945, Lt. John B. Cameron, USNR, in command. ==World War II, 1945–1946== After shakedown to St. Andrews Bay, Florida, and alterations at Mobile, the new tank landing ship loaded pontoon barges at Gulfport, Mississippi, and departed on 24 March 1945 with 90 Navy passengers who were disembarked in the Panama Canal Zone. From there she proceeded to Pearl Harbor where she embarked marines bound for Guam, and sailed on 27 April entering Apra Harbor on 17 May. ''LST–1082'' departed Guam two days later and proceeded via Saipan for Okinawa. After weathering a typhoon on 5 June, she arrived Buckner Bay, Okinawa on 8 June and lay hidden under a smoke screen with her crew at general quarters during the many air alerts. ''LST–1082'' departed Naha, Okinawa, on 4 July, to return marines and their combat gear to Guam. She then returned via Saipan to Pearl Harbor on 5 August. She was in floating drydock number 2, when news came of the end of hostilities with Japan on 15 August. Fourteen days later she stood out of Pearl Harbor with 210 Marines and their equipment bound for occupation duty in Japan, and reached Sasebo on 23 September. ''LST–1082'' departed Sasebo two days later for Subic Bay, Luzon, Philippine Islands, where she embarked elements of the Fifth Air Force. Following a brief stay in Lingayen Gulf, she departed San Fabian on 12 October to land the Army troops and their equipment at Wakayama, Japan arriving on 22 October. She sailed the following day for Manila, thence proceeded to the San Fabian Beach in Lingayen Gulf. There she embarked 185 officers and men of an Army aviation battalion and debarked these occupation troops in Sasebo, Japan, on 15 November. ''LST–1082'' departed Sasebo on 23 November and steamed home via Saipan, and Pearl Harbor arriving at San Francisco on 16 January 1946. ''LST–1082'' decommissioned at Astoria, Oregon, on 5 August 1946, and entered the Pacific Reserve Fleet. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「USS Pitkin County (LST-1082)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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