LST 767

Built by American Bridge Company at the Ambridge Manufacturing Plant in Ambridge, PA. Launched September 4, 1944. Commissioned USS LST-767 on September 30, 1944. After commissioning USS LST-767 voyaged down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans, LA., and passed through the Panama Canal to the Pacific Ocean in mid-November, arriving at Pearl Harbor in mid-December 1944 where she loaded military passengers, LCT-749, pontoon causeway sections and other materiel. Late in the year USS LST-767 left Hawaii for Leyte, in the Philippine Islands, where she arrived at the beginning of February 1945. During the next two months the landing ship traveled south to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, then returned north to Ulithi, Caroline Islands, and finally, in early April, to Okinawa, arriving a few days after U.S. forces commenced a long and bloody campaign against the island’s Japanese defenders. During World War II, USS LST-767 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater. Participated in the Okinawa Gunto operation (Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, April 2 to 9, 1945). After launching LCT-749 and disembarking her passengers and their equipment, USS LST-767 left Okinawa and began several months of transportation service in the central, south and western Pacific. She was in the Solomon Islands when Japan surrendered mid-August 1945. USS LST-767 earned one battle star for World War II service. Following World War II USS LST-767 was assigned to Occupation in the Far East from September 19, 1945 to March 4, 1946. During the last part of September USS LST-767 landed cargo on Okinawa, an undertaking that was interrupted by the need to put to sea to ride out an approaching typhoon. In the early morning darkness of December 1, 1945, while beached at Kana Wan, Okinawa, USS LST-767 was wrecked by another storm. When it was determined that salvage would be impossible for several months, she was ordered to be stripped and disposed of. Decommissioned on March 7, 1946. Struck from the Naval Register on March 28, 1946. Final Disposition, hulk sold for scrapping in May 1945.