High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS LST-939 was a United States Navy LST-542-class tank landing ship in commission from 1944 to 1948. LST-939 was laid down on 21 July 1944 at Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Inc., Hingham, MA. and commissioned on 14 September 1944. During World War II LST-939 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the Asiatic-Pacific campaign, and the assault and occupation of Okinawa, Gunto from April through June of 1945. During World War II, LST-939 was assigned to the Pacific Theater of Operations. LST-939 left New York Harbor in the fall of 1944 arriving in Havana, Cuba, and then transited the Panama Canal, and went on to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. She was refueled in Pearl Harbor and went to Guadalcanal where it was attacked by a Japanese suicide swimmer caring several packages of explosives and two grenades.. The attack was successfully repelled. LST-939 departed and next beached at Dulag Leyte Gulf in the Philippines on 4 February 1945 and then transited on to Guam.

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