History: U.S.S. LST 554

2018.048

Record, Military

A photocopy of a 3-page document providing a brief narrative history of LST-554 and her crew in their service during World War II. The history begins with the crew's training at Camp Bradford and the ship's construction at the Evansville Shipyard and follows them through their journey to the Pacific Theater and actions in various locations including Leyte, Morotai, and Okinawa among others. The report ends with LST-554 awaiting decommissioning in San Francisco, CA. A final sentence, added later, notes that the ship was decommissioned on 20 July, 1946 and sold to Kaiser Co., Inc. to be broken down for scrap.