LCT Stories

Personnel Accounts 

Other LCT related stories

• Thirty-seven day's in a bathtub or how to cross the the pacific in an LCT, by: Lieut., Jack E. Johnson, commanders Flotilla 23,Group 69

• My Longest Day By Joseph Alexander, Officer in Charge LCT 856 during the Normandy landings

   

• The Sailors Log / LCT 221 By George W. Butenschoen

• LCT SEA STORIES  SEA STORIES FROM OFFICERS & SAILORS OF LCT GROUP 24

• LCT 685 I Love You  By John T. Dizer In memory of LCT 685 and her crew: Group 70, Flotilla 24 7th Amphibious Fleet New Guinea, Philippines, Okinawa, Japan

• Odyssey of LCT # 1066  By Pete Nuzzolo Photo's an crew list, Pete Nuzzolo and Mayland P Lewis Jr.

• The Saga of the USS LCT 638  By: Joseph D. Graham Officer in Charge during the Normandy landings.

• LCT 637 By Charles Lilly Unedited narration of the landing at Normandy.

• The Saga of LCT 1095  By Al Horton, QMCS Ret. LCT Group 95 Flotilla 32 

• VIGNETTES is an 85 page book about Mr. Gerrish's personal experiences in WWII with the Maintenance Staff of LCT(5) Flotilla 10.

• Two hours late, several pumps short Could it be that we saved the Laffey? By Daniel A. Kitchen, Lt., USNR Retired

• LCT 1119 History  Researched By Bill Thiessen, Son of Victor Thiessen MoM 3c LCT 1119.

• LCT 1105 World War II from the eyes of Edwin Brown. This story is in PDF format and will open in a new window. This 34 page story was written up and provided to us by Mr. Brown's grandson Jeffery Brown.

• LCT 673  Vernon L. Wood, Motor Machinist Mate 2^nd Class. This story is in PDF format and will open in a new window and was sent in by his son Karl Wood.

• The Tin Armada: The Saga of the LCT by Basil Hearde

• LCT I Love You  Ira Wolfert, which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post.

• Launching a LCT   by George Gross (LST 794) with a animation of LCT  982  being Launched from LST 274

Pages covering D-Day

• LCT(A)s IN NORMANDY AT H-HOUR ON D-DAY  By Edwin L. Kaufmann In 1944, an Ensign Officer-in-Charge US LCT(A) 2124

• Larry Noel's Paper on LCTs and LCT(A)s in Normandy  D-Day, June 6, 1944 Presented April 1999 at the LCT flotillas reunion in Denver

• LCT(5) Flotilla 18 at Omaha Beach, D-Day, June 6, 1944 by Robert D. Blegen LCT 149, Flotilla 18, Omaha Beach

• D-DAY, JUNE 6,1944 AS SEEN FROM US LCT (6) 544 By Bill O'Neill

• Joe Suozzo's report on LCT's at Normandy, he was Officer in Charge of LCT(A) 2310

LCT Operations in The Mediterranean

• US LCT(5) Campaigns in the Mediterranean by by Robert D. Blegen LCT 149

LCT Operations in the Pacific

• LCT (6) FLOTILLA 31 in The Typhoon of 1945. This is a action report but I'm listing it here because it's also a good story.