USS Catahoula Parish (LST-528) was an built for the United States Navy

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 during World War II

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. Named for Catahoula Parish, Louisiana

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, she was the only U.S. Naval vessel to bear the name.

LST-528 was laid down on 13 November 1943 at Jeffersonville, Indiana

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 by the Jeffersonville Boat & Machine Company; launched on 11 January 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Madge Medlock Watt; and commissioned on 29 February 1944.

Service history

During World War II, LST-528 was assigned to the European Theater and participated in the Invasion of Normandy in June 1944. She returned to the United States

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 and was placed in reserve until the outbreak of the Korean War. During the war, she was part of a six-ship flotilla which took supplies to Thule

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, Greenland

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, where the US Air Force was building a base. LST-528 was under the command of Dallas Grenley at that time.

LST-528 was decommissioned in March, 1954. The ship was named USS Catahoula Parish (LST-528) on 1 July 1955. She was struck from the Navy list on 21 November 1960, and sold to the Marquette Cement Company for conversion to a bulk cement carrier.

LST-528 earned one battle star for World War II service.

See also

• List of United States Navy LSTs