Based on the Coast Guard Historian’s timeline, https://www.history.uscg.mil/research/chronology/
With inspiration from Mike Kelso
November 20
US Coast Guard manned Attack Transport USS Leonard Wood (APA-12) underway 28 April 1944. Source Robert Hurst
1943 Landings commenced at Makin and Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands. The Coast Guard-manned assault transport USS Leonard Wood, veteran of the landings made in the Mediterranean, participated. She landed 1,788 officers and men of the 165th Combat Team of the U.S. Army’s 27th Division, on Makin Island. Coast Guard-manned LST-20, LST-23, LST-69, LST-169, LST-205, and the USS Arthur Middleton, and the following Navy ships with partial Coast Guard crews: USSs Heywood, Bellatrix, and William P. Biddle, participated in the bloody assault of Tarawa.
Coast Guard manned USS LST-69 beached while unloading equipment, date and location unknown.
US Coast Guard photo # 3237 from the collections of the US Coast Guard Historian’s Office. While moored in the West Loch at Pearl Harbor USS LST-69 was destroyed by an ordnance explosion, and sank, 21 May 1944.
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She landed 1,788 officers and men of the 165th Regimental Combat Team of the U.S. Army’s 27th Division,
Yes the great Tarawa fiasco – we didn’t know what the tides and such were – sent Higgins boats in with troops – small problem – the Higgins boats (Landing Craft) drew 3.5 ft draft but there was only 3 ft orf water over the reef – into a meat grinder – they had to send DKWs out to ferry the troops to the beach – the Japanese were well dug in – what a king sized mess
Read: Lethal Tides by Catherine Musemeche
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