USS LST-986 was an in the United States Navy

United States Navy

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. Like many of her class, she was not named and is properly referred to by her hull designation.

LST-986 was laid down on 15 January 1944 at the Boston Navy Yard

Boston Navy Yard

The Boston Navy Yard, originally called the Charlestown Navy Yard and later Boston Naval Shipyard, was one of the oldest shipbuilding facilities in the United States Navy. Established in 1801, it was officially closed as an active naval installation on July 1, 1974, and the property was...

; launched

Ship naming and launching

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 on 5 March 1944; and commissioned

Ship commissioning

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 on 14 April 1944, with Lt. Harold G. Waite, USNR in command.

Service history

During World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

, LST-986 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific theater and participated in the following operations; capture and occupation of Guam (July and August 1944), Lingayen Gulf landings

Invasion of Lingayen Gulf

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 (January 1945), assault and occupation of Okinawa

Battle of Okinawa

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 Gunto (April and May 1945).

Following the war, LST-986 performed occupation duty in the Far East until early March 1946. She returned to the United States and was decommissioned on 18 July 1946 and struck from the Navy List on 28 August that same year. On 4 November 1948, the ship was sold to the Moore Dry Dock Company

Moore Dry Dock Company

Moore Dry Dock Company was a ship repair and shipbuilding company in Oakland, California. It was started in San Francisco in 1905 as the Moore & Scott Iron Works, but was destroyed by fire in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It reopened soon and in 1909 purchased the Boole Shipyard in Oakland....

, Oakland, California, for scrapping.

LST-986 earned three battle stars for World War II service.