Posted by Goose on August 28, 2018 at 11:52:43 from (166.182.85.60):
In Reply to: LST 325 posted by big tee on August 28, 2018 at 06:51:41:
I once rode the LST 1170, USS Wyndham County, from Japan to Taiwan, as a member of a Marine Corps Air Group deploying to a Nationalist Chinese Air Force Base near Pingtung, Taiwan.
Someone once said an LST had 4 speeds, "Idle", "Cruise", "Fast", and "Combat", all in the vicinity of 10 knots. I can't argue it.
That being said, I was sitting on deck one day, killing time, when I got to looking at one particular sailor. I thought, "Dang, he looks familiar".
When he turned so I could see his name on his shirt, it turned out to be a guy I was in grade school with. He was crew on the ship. That chance meeting made the local newspaper.
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