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unusual facts about USS LST-356


USS LST-356

Beaching again on the 13th, the tank landing ship, helped by Army engineers, started to unload the remainder of her own cargo, and her crew completed the job on the 14th.


356th

356th Airlift Squadron (356 AS), part of the 433d Airlift Wing at Kelly Field Annex, Texas

Azalin Rex

From the Shadows (1992), by Bruce Nesmith, (ISBN 1-56076-356-6): Adventure module focusing on Azalin and Castle Avernus, near the start of the Grand Conjunction.

B1A4

As B1A4 hosted their first solo concert, BABA B1A4, fans from all over the world sent gifts and donations to B1A4, measuring up to approximately 2 tons of rice, 2,356 coal briquettes, 300 eggs, 300 kg of pet food, and 10 mango trees.

Charles Samuel Jackson

In 1917, Jackson donated 88 acres (356,000 m²) on Marquam Hill in Portland to the University of Oregon Medical School; the site, then known as Sam Jackson Park, is now the campus of the Oregon Health & Science University.

Chris Petersen

The offense peaked in 2003, scoring a school-best 602 points en route to a 13-1 season: QB Ryan Dinwiddie threw for 4,356 yards and 31 TD, RB David Mikell ran for 1,142 yards and 13 TD, and WR Tim Gilligan had 1,192 yards and 6 TD.

Climate of the Falkland Islands

The rainfall in 2009 as recorded from 17 different stations in The Wool Press varied between 356 mm at Cape Dolphin and 898 mm at Port Howard.

CMOS

Frank Wanlass patented CMOS in 1963 (US patent 3,356,858).

Ephorus

Book 30, covering the years 356-340 BC, was added by Demophilus quite probably after his death.

Frumentius

In about 356, the Emperor Constantius II wrote to King Ezana and his brother Saizanas, requesting them to replace Frumentius as bishop with Theophilus, who supported the Arian position, as did the emperor.

History of Greek

As Greek culture under Alexander the Great (356–323 BC) and his successors spread from Asia Minor to Egypt and the border regions of India the Attic dialect became the basis of the Koiné (Κοινή; "common").

Hotels in London

Rosewood London HotelHolborn356opened in the 1990s as Renaissance Chancery Court in a grand 1914 former office building

Kajaran

It is located 356 km away from Yerevan, 25 km away from Kapan, the regional center, and 50 km from the border of Armenia and Iran.

Norman Sterry

In 1953, Sterry, then a senior partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, successfully represented the New Yankees in a case before the United States Supreme Court, Toolson v. New York Yankees, 346 U.S. 356, which upheld an exemption from the antitrust laws for Major League Baseball.

Porsche 356

In 1950 the factory relocated to Zuffenhausen, Germany, and general production of the 356 continued until April 1965, well after the replacement model 911 made its autumn 1963 debut.

Porsche 356/1

The aluminum roadster body of the 356/1 was designed by Porsche employee Erwin Komenda in April 1948 at Gmünd and completed only a month later.

Porsche Boxster

Harm Lagaay's design, inspired by the 356 Cabriolet, Speedster, and 550 Spyder, stimulated a commercial turnaround for Porsche.

Rav Nachman bar Yitzchak

Rav Nachman bar Yitzchak or Rabh Naħman bar Yişħaq in actual Talmudic and Classical Hebrew (died 356) was an amora (rabbi of the Talmud) who lived in Babylonia.

Razvilka, Moscow Oblast

The settlement is connected with Moscow by five bus lines: #44 to railway station Rastorguyevo, #95, #355, #356 to Domodedovskaya station of the Moscow Metro, and #897 to Maryino metro station.

The Sacred Wars

Third Sacred War (356 BC - 346 BC), between the forces of Thebes and Phocis for control of Delphi

USS LST-1

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).

USS LST-1000

LST-1000 departed New York City to Avonmouth, UK, 25 July 1944 as part of convoy HXM 30, to resupply troops in Normandy and Mont Saint-Michel.

USS LST-1064

She was laid down on 9 January 1945 at the Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Hingham, Massachusetts and was launched on 14 February 1945, called simply USS LST-1064.

USS LST-119

Gallant Bess, a film about a horse rescued in World War II in which LST 119 appears.

USS LST-16

On 5 June 1944 she was anchored in the mouth of the Helford River awaiting the order to set sail for Normandy.

Ordered to proceed to Bailey's Beach four miles (6 km) south of Scoglitti she discharged DUKWs before beaching.

USS LST-279

Starting in August 1944, she made routine operational trips from Portland, England, to the Normandy beaches and to the French ports of Rouen, Le Havre, Cherbourg, and Saint-Michel-en-Grève.

USS LST-288

The last vehicle rolled into an LCT at 1525, prompting the landing ship to raise the ramp, close the bow doors and join a convoy bound for Ajaccio, Corsica.

USS LST-306

Although named USS Bernalillo County (LST-306) on 1 July 1955 she never returned to active Navy service; her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 February 1959.

USS LST-31

The new tank landing ship got underway on 29 July for Panama City, Florida where she conducted a series of beaching exercises.

USS LST-317

Upon her return to the United States, she was decommissioned on 18 May 1945 for conversion to landing craft repair ship USS Conus (ARL-44) at the New York Navy Yard.

USS LST-325

The ship was placed in service with the Military Sea Transportation Service in 1951 as USNS T-LST-325, and took part in "Operation SUNAC" (Support of North Atlantic Construction), venturing into the Labrador Sea, Davis Strait, and Baffin Bay to assist in the building of radar outposts along the eastern shore of Canada and western Greenland.

In May and June 2005, she sailed up the east coast under her own power for a 60-day tour of several ports, visiting Alexandria, Virginia, and Buzzard's Bay, Boston, Gloucester, Massachusetts.

USS LST-389

Finally departing Salerno on 11 September, LST-389 sailed to Milazzo, Sicily to await orders which came soon and took her back to Salerno with elements of the famed British 8th Army embarked.

USS LST-4

West coast of Italy operations - Anzio-Nettuno advanced landings - January and February 1944; June 1944.

USS LST-510

Following two voyages to Rouen, the ship was proceeding to Cherbourg when she hit an underwater obstruction which holed her hull, flooding both engine rooms and plunging the ship into darkness.

The invasion was already eight hours old when she began approaching Omaha Beach, near Vierville.

USS LST-594

USS LST-594 was an LST-542 class tank landing ship, built for the United States Navy during World War II.

USS LST-661

In his memoir With the Old Breed at Pelelieu and Okinawa, Eugene B. Sledge expresses his gratitude to the crew of LST-661.

USS LST-738

A group of approximately ten Mitsubishi A6M 'Zeke', Nakajima Ki-44 'Tojo' and Ki-43 'Oscar' single seat fighters, and Nakajima B5N 'Kate' three seat torpedo bombers began their attack on the Task Unit shortly after 09:10, as the LSTs were positioning for their landings.

USS LST-853

Later in her U.S. Navy career she was renamed Kane County (LST-853)—after counties in Illinois and Utah—but never saw active service under that name.

USS LST-903

During the next seven weeks she participated in intensive amphibious training in Hawaiian waters; and, after embarking Army troops and loading LVTs, she sailed in convoy for the Marianas on 20 May.

USS LST-953

LST-953 carried elements of the 2nd Marine Division to Nagasaki on 24 September for the occupation of Japan and men of the US Army's 24th Infantry Division to Matsuyama on 27 October.

Originally laid down as USS LST-953 on 15 September 1944 by the Bethlehem Steel Company of Hingham, Massachusetts; launched on 15 October; and commissioned on 7 November with Lieutenant T. W. Sexton in command.

USS LST-987

She primarily performs maintenance dredging of federal navigation channels for the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

Vom Donaustrande

Vom Donaustrande (By the Shores of the Danube, op. 356) is a polka by Johann Strauss II written in 1873.

Wooden iron

The term was also employed in his poetic attempts to criticize socialism and the building of a "free society" (see Book 5 of The Gay Science, §356).


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