14-245 Garand Picture of the Day- Salerno, September 1943.

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Landing reinforcements to the beachhead would initially be performed through prefabricated causeways. Here, troops, army trucks and field guns are unloaded from USS LST-1 on an Italian beach near Salerno, September 1943.

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LST 1

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USS LST-1 was a tank landing ship (LST (2)) built for the United States Navy during World War II, the lead ship in her class of 390.

LST-1 was laid down on 20 July 1942 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by the Dravo Corporation; launched on 7 September 1942; sponsored by Mrs. Laurence T. Haugen; and commissioned on 14 December 1942 with Lieutenant W. L. Chessman in command.

During World War II, LST-1 was assigned to the European Theater and participated in the following operations: Allied invasion of Sicily (July 1943); Salerno Landings (September 1943); Anzio-Nettuno phase of operations on the west coast of Italy (January to March 1944); and the Invasion of Normandy (June 1944).

LST-1 was decommissioned on 21 May 1946 and was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 19 June 1946. On 5 December 1947 she was sold to the Ships Power and Equipment Company of Barber, New Jersey for scrapping.

LST-1 earned four battle stars for World War II service.

Amazing! An entirely new class of ship conceived, designed, launched less than 3 months after laying the keel, commissioned a year and one week after Pearl Harbor, and followed by another 389 in only 3 years!

Jerry Liles

Try these 2 records ~ Two particular ships were built in record breaking amounts of time. First in September 1942 the Liberty ship SS Joseph N. Teal was built Oregon Shipbuilding in 10 days. Two months later in November at Richmond yard #2, the SS Robert E. Peary was launching in only 4 days, 15 hours, 29 minutes from the time her keel was laid. While not ever met or repeated during the remainder of World War II, these "stunt" ships came only a little more than one year after the first ships ordered as part of the Emergency Program were launched themselves.

LCI (L) 209 was also a prototype even though numbered 209 . It was the second one laid down.
Chris

A field day for mill scale. They skipped descaling the steel of the hull so rust formed under the paint and bottom sealant.

Bob

my father talks about watching ships an armor leaving pittsburgh pa area every day when he was a little boy. trains an barges all day long. my grand father used to say during the war you had all the over time you wanted to work in the mills he was crane operatore in open pit.