| DANFS
Online: Amphibious Ships, Russell County (LST-1090) |
Account of the ship from the Dictionary of American Naval
Fighting Ships (1976) |
| NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive |
Includes specifications of LST-1090 Russell County. This accounts gives its Final Disposition as severely damaged by grounding and discarded by Indonesian Navy, fate unknown. |
| Tandjung
Radja(ex-U.S.S. Russell County, LST 1090) |
An excerpt from Jane's Fighting Ships. LST 1090 was transferred
to the Indonesia Navy in 1961. It was not listed by Jane's in
1966. |
| World
Navies Today: Indonesia |
This states that ex-LST 839 was one of many USN LSTs transferred
to Indonesia. Several sisters are in reserve as storage hulks. LST
1090 may be one of them. (2002) |
| LST1090.org |
Bill Hagwood's site. LST 1090 history emphasizing Korea. |
| The
Korean Service Medal 1950-1954, Ships "L" |
LST 1090 participated in five Korean War engagements: First UN
Counter Offensive: 25 Jan-21 Apr 51, Communist China Spring
Offensive: 22 Apr-08 Jul 51, UN Summer-Fall Offensive: 09 July-27
Nov 51, Third Korean Winter: 01 Dec 52-30 Apr 5-3, Korea,
Summer-Fall 1953: 01 May-27 Jul 53 |
| United States L.S.T.
Association |
The U.S. LST Association based in Toledo, OH. was started in
April 1985, its purpose is to get old shipmates back together and
renew old friendships. We also try to assist in finding former
shipmates with our computer list of our 7,000 current members. |
| LST Home Port |
All active and inactive LST sailors are invited to join the US
LST Association. A few WW2 type LST's remain in service today, but
not in the USA. One goal of the LST Association is to reacquire an
operational LST from one of the foreign countries, restore it, and
put it on display as a memorial to to the sailors who manned these
ships and to those who died serving their country on an LST. |
| Haze Gray and Underway |
Haze Gray and Underway was founded in 1994 by Andrew Toppan, in
the "early days " of the web. Through various name changes and
relocations over the years, this site has remained dedicated to
providing the finest naval history information. Today Hazegray has
grown to over 14,000 files, among them over 3,000 images. |
| USN and
Coast Guard WWII Ship Casualties |
Source: Department of the Navy, Naval Historical Center, 805
Kidder Breese SE, Washington Navy Yard, Washington, DC
20374-5060 |
| Skill
in the Surf: A Landing Boat Manual |
Prepared by the Training and Operations Staff, Landing Craft
School, Amphibious Training base, Coronado, California, in
cooperation with the Bureau of Naval Personnel, Instructor Training
Program, February, 1945. Ralph Hostetler was a Small Boat Officer on
LST 1090. |
| The Little Boat that Won the War |
"Andrew Higgins", Eisenhower said, "is the man who won the war for us. ...
If Higgins had not designed and built those LCVP's, we never could have landed over an open beach.
The whole strategy of the war would have been different". |
| Tarawa Memoirs |
Marine Radioman Second Class William L. McDonald gives an account of
his duty on an LCVP during the Tarawa landing. |
| Ensign John J. Parle, Congressional Medal of Honor |
Small Boat Officer Parle, LST 375, was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor
for his actions during the invasion of Sicily, July 9-10, 1943. |
| Seaman First Class Johnnie David Hutchins, Congressional Medal of Honor |
Seaman First Class Hutchins, USNR, USS LST 473, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor
for his actions near Lae, New Guinea. September 4, 1943. |
| Chapter 26, The Trip to Leyte, How the Navy and I Survived Each Other During WWII |
John Kilsheimer, an LST officer, gives an account of near collisions when a convoy to Leyete becomes disarrayed.
Ralph Hostetler had a similar experience during his service. |
| Oral History of Small Boat Officer Richard Wagner, LSTs 282, 46, and 712 |
A mostly typical WWII LST Small Boat Officer experience. Atypical in that LST 282 was sunk (by German radio-controlled glider bomb off St. Tropez, France, April 15, 1944). |
| Oral History of Ltjg Halleck B. "H.B." Warren |
Accounts of supporting landings in the South Pacific. |
| How
to Launch an LCT |
This account was written by George Gross (LST 794). When you
want to put an LCT onto an LST, you need a crane. No problem because
you are probably in a shipyard. . . . But, when you want to get it
off, you are probably in the South Pacific. No cranes for hire. So
what do you do? From the LST 794 Web site. |
| General Mess
Menu, LST 454 |
LST 454 was commissioned on January 25, 1943. At that time the
crew contained 7 officers and 49 enlisted men. As the ship became
more taking part in 13 landings and in many resupply missions.
During the war the ship was important the crew grew to over 200 men.
The 454 spent most of it's time in the Southwest Pacific credited
with shooting down one plane and earning 8 battle stars. From the
LST 454 Web site. |
| Basic LST
Information |
Schematic of an LST from the LST 454 Web site |
| Beating
the Pants Off the Navy |
A story by Signalman George Gross. From the LST 794 Web
site. |
| Typhoon
Off Okinawa |
On October 9-10, 1945, Typhoon Louise swept through Okinawa
area. The typhoon did a great deal of damage to the U.S. Fleet in
the vicinity of Okinawa, and resulted in 83 men killed or missing.
From the LST 794 Web site. LST 1090 was underway from Subic Bay to
Lingayen Gulf, with no mention in the ship's log of rough weather
(John Matthews, Small Boat Officer, LST
1090). |