LSTs In The Pacific: WWII

Like This Movie Trailer? Go to http://www.militaryvideo.com/ to purchase the entire video, or to see movie trailers of over 700 other military videos.At last, a video that pays tribute to the important role LSTs (Landing Ship Tank) and their crews played in winning the war in the Pacific. From the landings at New Guinea to the battle for Okinawa, LSTs were in the thick of it.
The video contains rare, crystal-clear film footage not seen by the general public for over 60 years, documenting the landing at Wadke Island in New Guinea, the tragic LST fire at West Loch in Pearl Harbor, and the landings at Saipan, Lingayen Gulf and Okinawa. Also includes dramatic scenes of LST convoys enroute to Peleliu and Okinawa, as well as excellent footage of a burial at sea aboard an LST and raucous scenes of a King Neptune Ceremony aboard an LST.

Also shown are Chinese nationalist sailors training aboard an LST, and an LST transporting Japanese prisoners of war back to Japan.

Includes footage of dozens of LSTs, and of their crews working, fighting and playing at sea.

There's plenty of film footage of LSTs performing tasks that many today don't associate with this "large slow target," as she was known to her crews. For example, you'll see an LST refueling a submarine chaser on the open sea, surgery performed aboard an LST hospital ship, and a high-line transfer between an LST and LCM.

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Film & Animation

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• LST
• Land
• Ship
• Tank
• WWII
• Pacific
• Saipan
• Okinawa
• Navy

[bills7974]

@Akirameerkat

I was watching pbs station here about three months ago and they had reported that this was one of the biggest explosions they have seen here. It was caused by loading ammunition too fast. The US Navy in Pearl covered it up saying it was a big training excercise but never telling the general public it killed many people. How many--I forgot what they said.

Ret-senior chief engineman

[san4tam]

Hi all I can remember vividly going from Hong Kong in 1957 in one of these ships, her name was Frederick Clover. We were running outside Formosa in the South China Sea with a typhoon not far away, we were on our way to the port of Inchon in Korea. Flat bottomed in that sort of weather was far from pleasant. Still the ships did a valiant service in the 2nd world war and we can be grateful to the crewa that served on them.

Wonderful video, anyone know of any others on the web?.

[Akirameerkat]

in 1944, in Pearl harbor, at west lock, a bunch of these ship exploded, does anyone know what caused it, I can't find any information on what caused iit, was it sabotage, or did some guy drop a shell, what happened there.

[harptoons]

Nice to see this available. Check out the Naval Memorial across from the National Archives in DC. There's a museum below level and they often have noon concerts there when the weather is good.

[ErrikuStewart]

My dad served aboard LST-840 which was later named USS Iron County and eventually sold to Taiwan and renamed Chung Fu.

I'll check out your website!