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USS ''LST-939'' was a United States Navy in commission from 1944 to 1948. ''LST-939'' was laid down on 21 July 1944 at Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Inc. in Hingham, Massachusetts, and commissioned on 14 September 1944. During World War II ''LST-939'' was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the Asiatic-Pacific campaign, including the assault and occupation of Okinawa, Gunto, from April through June 1945.〔http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/l27/lst-939.htm〕 ==Service history== During World War II, ''LST-939'' was assigned to the Pacific Theater of Operations. ''LST-939'' left New York Harbor in the fall of 1944, arriving first in Havana, Cuba, and then transiting the Panama Canal on its way to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. She was refueled in Pearl Harbor for her voyage to Guadalcanal where she was attacked by a Japanese suicide swimmer caring several packages of explosives and two grenades. The attack was successfully repelled. ''LST-939'' departed and next beached at Dulag Leyte Gulf in the Philippines on 4 February 1945 and then transited on to Guam. ''LST-939'' participated in the amphibious assault of the beach at Gunto in Okinawa, where it was attacked by a ''kamikaze''. The ''kamikaze'' was successfully destroyed in mid-air by anti-aircraft fire (AA), but a piece of the aircraft struck the forward deck. Upon landing in the Okinawa amphibious assault one crew member standing above the front door was killed by an incoming exploding coastal defense artillery shell and the executive officer, Lieutenant (j.g.) George Keat, was temporarily blinded. The ship was later damaged in a collision with that same day during the amphibious assault. ''LST-939'' is also known to have transited through Saipan. Following the war, ''LST-939'' performed occupation operations in the waters surrounding the Home Islands of Japan. She entered Japanese waters in the Port of Tokyo shortly after the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ''LST-939'' continued to perform occupation duty in the Far East and saw service in China until mid-March 1946 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 LST-939」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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