"Color of Guadalcanal LST's?" Topic

I've been working on a set of ships for the Solomons Campaign and was wondering if the LST's were grey or green or camo. Anyone have any information?

-S

I've no immediate access to my books but all the green camo LST's I've seen have been a Measure 32 type variants that were later in the war. Just a guess but I'd expect grey or one of the earlier common measures such as 12 or 21.

they were a bluish grey. Here is a color photo of one landing in Italy. picture

Here is a watercolor:
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Here are more photos though the LST here is not what I'd call "mint" shape:
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This one shows the color very nicely:
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That makes it easy for me, then

Thanks

But wait there is more!

I did manage to find a picture of the US San Bernardino County that was camouflaged!!!

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LST-1110 at West Kukum Beach, Guadalcanal, 18 August 1945.

Here is another shot of the same ship also in camo but B/W
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Well, your title specifies Guadalcanal LST's and, for
the August, 1942 landing, there weren't any LST's
present.

Do you mean LST's at Guad (none present) or LST's in the
Solomons (later in the war) ?

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So there were just AKA's and APA's for the '42 invasion?

For the most part, yes. There were a few civilian ships
pressed into service, but for the most part the 15
auxiliaries carrying troops were such as the Hunter
Liggett, McCawley, George F. Eliot and so forth.

A couple of the President ships (Coolidge and Grant)
participated later on in the campaign, but the invasion
forces didn't include any, I believe.

All the beaching craft (LCI's, LST's, etc.) were tied-up
by the JCS for the Torch landings. Those were, at the
time, fairly new and only much later did
the SW Pac and S. Pac get a lot of beaching craft
(MacArthur's amphibious support was mostly these types
of vessels).

Almost forgot: there were also 8 APD's carrying troops
for the Guadalcanal landings.