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03-17-2003, 09:41 PM
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My ship
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Moderator Posts: 261 (9/24/01 1:11:57 pm) | Del All My ship -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is where I spent all of my time, with the exceptions of stopping at all the resort villas, such as Can Tho, My Tho,Chu Lai, Vung Tau, Saigon, Danang.....etc....anywhere there was a boom boom house. Geno G God Bless America Edited by: Genog at: 9/24/01 2:25:20 pm nighthawk V.I.P. Member Posts: 355 (9/24/01 1:40:40 pm) | Del Re: My ship -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- boom boom house??? Why, Geno!!! I have never in all my life,,,,,,,, lol Seriously, I am not at all sure I would have cared to be on a floating target. Like they said about tanks in WWII; "them moving foxholes attract the eye". My respects to ya for doing a difficult and dangerous job! Stan H ,, nighthawk Genog Moderator Posts: 262 (9/24/01 2:56:38 pm) | Del Re: My ship -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yes Nighthawk,,,, LST.....long slow target Geno G God Bless America oneknight Moderator Posts: 2031 (9/24/01 6:23:50 pm) | Del Re: My ship -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for sharing a picture of your "boat".......lol! Didn't see you on deck, can only assume you were at the Boom Boom house.......lmao@you!!!! Genog Moderator Posts: 267 (9/25/01 11:20:42 am) | Del Re: My ship -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No Donna I was onboard. She was moving, so the full ships company was there. I was on the second deck in the radio shack doing my dit dit da thing. Boom Boom later. Geno G God Bless America gorourke V.I.P. Member Posts: 121 (9/25/01 10:42:27 pm) | Del Re: My ship -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Genog, Great photo, thanks. What was your ships mission? P. Gary homer4 Moderator Posts: 1593 (9/26/01 8:49:17 am) | Del your ship -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yeah Geno, I'm curious too. What was the purpose of this type vessel? What was the weaponry? Is this the same craft that Stan served on? Genog Moderator Posts: 274 (9/27/01 12:13:39 pm) | Del Re: your ship -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LST (Landing Ship Tanks) Notice the bow of the ship. Massive doors that swing open and large ramp drops down to facilitate immediate unloading after the ship is beached. We carried supplies, ammo, armored vehicles, troops....etc... whatever needed to be transported from one location to another. Would pick up cargo in places such as Saigon or Cam Rahn Bay and unload in Mekong Delta bases. Our crew was a lot like McHale's Navy. If something could foul up, it usually always did. Once we were suppose to land troops along the coast south of DaNang. After the landing area had been cleared by air support, the skipper gave the order to land. 50 yards off the beach we hit a sand bar and came to an abrupt halt. Skipper ordered all back full and let's try er again. Of course the sand bar had not moved and we were stopped again. I was on the radio and received orders after the second failure to bring it home. Informed the skipper and back to DaNang. Troops were happy as it allowed them what they considered another day of life..... Stan was on a different vessel. Geno G God Bless America homer4 Moderator Posts: 1597 (9/27/01 5:12:09 pm) | Del LST -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I see the door and what looks like connex's...we used to call em 'cans' or simply 'boxes' but they were for RTT's and other type stuff. I remember occassionaly seeing some smaller craft with a large grill like gate that flopped down...carried ARVN troops as I recall...don't know the Naval designate. Also recall seeing a ship that had a 105mm aboard...they said it was on a turret, I don't know if this is true cause I figured maybe they were transporting it someplace. I think I saw it twice at least tho. Who knows. Good posts. gorourke V.I.P. Member Posts: 122 (9/27/01 10:53:30 pm) | Del Re: LST -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks Geno. Good post. Sounds like you got to see a good part of our favorite South East Asia local. In our AO, “25th Div.”, the rivers were not deep enough for such a large craft. We did work with the ARVN Navy doing river landings on a smaller Landing Craft of the type Homer described. The boat ride was great but we would often be dropped off in areas were the water would be up to our necks! I never did understand that. I guess it was a good place to hide, but I think even Charlie would find such a place difficult to stage out of. P. Gary Genog Moderator Posts: 279 (9/28/01 10:13:51 am) | Del Re: LST -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- p. Gary, We were able to navigate many shallow rivers. An LST is a flat bottom ship, so the draft was shallow. On the open ocean it was not a very good ride. Instead of cutting through the 35 foot waves, she would just rise up and slap down. You can compare it to a Jon boat in the middle of Lake Superior with gale winds blowing... Alot of the smaller front door type landing crafts were called Mike boats. Geno G God Bless America Misterstan Moderator Posts: 656 (10/3/01 12:46:53 pm) | Del USS Mark (AKL-12) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The ship I served in was called a "light cargo" ship. It was about 180 feet long and we carried ammunition and supplies to many of the same bases Geno G.'s ship supplied, only I was around in 1970 and 1971 - a little later than Geno G.. Our home base was Cat Lo, RVN, about halfway between Saigon and Vung Tau. I am told the base is still in use today. .jpg) Misterstan |
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05-10-2004, 09:12 AM
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05-10-2004, 09:35 AM
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Welcome, 22WRF!! Thanks for posting the links. We hope you will stick around and post often.
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05-10-2004, 09:51 AM
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08-12-2004, 08:01 AM
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Re: My ship
"LST (Landing Ship Tanks)"
Actually it meant Large Slow Target.......  |
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08-25-2008, 11:02 PM
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Re: My ship
My dad was on an LST in the Korean conflict.
He told me about a trip his LST took from Hawaii to Inchan with a load of ammo that included a bunch of 2,000 pound projectiles for 16 inch battlewagon guns. They had the shells chained & all was well till they hit a typhoon & the chains broke. They spent 3 days in the typhoon listening to the big shells trying to pound thru the LST's thin walls. Not my idea of fun. |
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08-26-2008, 08:13 AM
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Re: My ship
 I think those are 500 pounders. I took this from the bridge. note the empty shells in the box along the side. these were empty casings from destroyers. there either 3 or 5" shell containers. they were sent back to be reloaded. |
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08-26-2008, 02:16 PM
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Re: My ship
Nice photo.
My dad was also on a destroyer where he was the head of a crew that manned a 5 inch gun. He said it was not as fun when he & his crew would load the gun & the officers got to fire it remotely. He liked firing it himself  Looks like maybe the 500 pounders are banded down to crates? |
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08-26-2008, 04:24 PM
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