Built under yard No 418 as a tank landing ship (LST) by Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Newport News VA.
20 June 1942 laid down.
28 September 1942 launched as USS LST -388, sponsored by Miss Barbara Ann Besse.
Displacement 1.780 ton light, 3.880 ton full load, dim. 328 x 50 x 14ft. (maximum draught)
Powered by 2 General Motors V12-567 diesels each 1.700 hp, twin shafts, speed 11 knots.
Could carry approx. 140 troops, 2 -6 LCVP craft. Crew between 108 till 115 men.
The book D-Day ships gives typical capacity of a LST was 8 jeeps, 21 – 3 ton and 6 – 15-cwt trucks and 18 tanks, 177 troops
Armament: 1 – 3 inch gun, 5 – 40mm, 6 – 20mm and 2 - 0.50 cal. machine guns.
20 November 1942 commissioned.
After commissioned was she assigned to the European Theater of War, and took part in the following operations.
November 1942 Operations at Tunisia trough till July 1943.
July 1943 Sicilian operations.
September 1943 Salerno landings.
June 1944 invasion of Normandy during D-Day. She was a unit of Force B. and transported the 187th Field Artillery to the Omaha Beach.
Thereafter she was assigned to the Asiatic=Pacific Campaign area, and following the war performed occupation duty in the Far East.
She was used in the Operation Cross road, the testing of the atomic bombs on Bikini Island.
01 February 1947 decommissioned.
25 February 1947 struck from the Navy List.
07 April 1948 transferred to the Maritime Administration.
1948 Sold or transferred to South Korea, renamed RYONG PI.
Fate till so far unknown but I think she took part in the Korean War.
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Source: http://www.navsource.org/archives/10/16/160388.htm the photo on this web-site is used to design the stamp, the LST-325 is omitted.