ACTIVITY DURING WWII
COMMISSIONED
FEBRUARY 1944 FROM NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY. ASSIGNED TO THE USS LST-550
BUILT IN EVANSVILLE, INDIANA IN THE EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS.
AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER OPERATION DRAGOON INVASION OF SOUTHERN FRANCE. IN
1945 THE SHIP WAS ASSIGNED TO THE PACIFIC THEATER OF OPERATIONS. LST
FLOTILLA 36, LST GROUP 108, LST DIVISION 215. JUNE 1945 ASSAULT ON
OKINAWA. DISCHARGED IN 1946 AS A LIEUTENANT JUNIOR GRADE.