|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Welcome to the |
| USS LST 494 |
| Assoc. Web Site! |
|
| Photos of LST 494 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| USS LST 494 |
| North Africa |
| 1944 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| USS LST 494 |
| On Omaha Beach, Normandy Invasion |
| 1944 |
| Destroyed LCT in Foreground |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| USS LST 494 |
| Okinawa Campaign |
| 1945 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| USS LST 494 |
| Okinawa Campaign |
| 1945 |
| Loading Torpedo Net |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| USS LST 494 |
| Unten Ko, Okinawa |
| October 1945 |
| Ship aground following typhoon |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| One of LST 494's LCVPs along side ship. Oran or Bizerete, North Africa 1944 |
| Don Beach, Bob Fike and Ensign Bob Happ and signalman in photo. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Gunnery Division |
| European Theater |
| L-R standing: Ivan Kuna,?, Ens. Joe Guarino, Fred Landry, Norris Pruitt |
| L-R kneeling: ?, John Meloni, ? |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
