USS LST-911 was an in the United States Navy. Like many of her class, she was not named and is properly referred to by her hull designation.
Construction
LST-911 was laid down on 28 February 1944, at Hingham, Massachusetts, by the Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard; launched on 12 April 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Christine Muir; and commissioned on 14 May 1944.
Service history
Underway the next day, LST-911 sailed to Little Creek, Virginia., arriving there on 23 May, to commence two weeks of shakedown exercises. With those evolutions complete on 4 June, the LST received five days of shipyard availability at Norfolk. After loading of dry stores, she proceeded to New York City, and moored at Pier 80 on 12 June. Embarking five LCT sections and 31 LCT crewmen soon thereafter, the tank landing ship got underway for the Panama Canal Zone on 25 June.
Transfer to the Pacific
Following stops at Guantánamo Bay and Coco Solo, the LST transited the Panama Canal on 9 July. Proceeding west, she made fueling stops at Bora Bora and Nouméa before anchoring in Seeadler Harbor, Manus Island, on 23 August, to unload stores and equipment. After refueling and loading of cargo for , the tank landing ship sailed to Humboldt Bay, New Guinea, and finished transferring supplies to the destroyer tender on 7 September.
New Guinea Operations
Shifting to Maffin Bay, New Guinea, on 13 September, LST-911 loaded of US Army cargo (mostly vehicles) and sailed to Morotai, beaching there and unloading supplies without incident on 19 September. The tank landing ship made a second supply run 26 September to 1 October, unloading of bulk cargo in Pitoe Bay before returning to Humboldt Bay.
Leyte operations
After loading of Army supplies on 14 October, LST-911 sailed to the Philippines to take part in the Sixth Army's landings there and disembarked her passengers and unloaded cargo at Cataison Point, Leyte, without incident on 22 October. During her second supply run, 6–12 November, as she was returning through San Pedro Bay, five Japanese planes attacked the anchorage. LST-911s guns joined the fusillade that shot down two of the attackers, splashing one not off the starboard bow.
On 28 November, a doctor and nine corpsmen reported on board, instantly transforming LST-911 into a casualty evacuation ship. Underway for Leyte on 29 November, as part of a reinforcement convoy, the LST's crew witnessed a series of Japanese aircraft attacks on the convoy on 5 December, including the torpedoing of freighter Antoine Saugraine. After unloading supplies the next day, the LST withdrew from the beach and anchored in San Pedro Bay. Three days later, she embarked 149 men and vehicles from the Australian No.3 Airfield Construction Squadron and sailed for Mindoro on 12 December. Although the convoy came under repeated attacks by Japanese planes, the tank landing ship received no damage and disembarked her passengers and unloaded her equipment on 15 December. While on a second run from Leyte, LST-911s convoy came under attack off Mindoro by a dozen kamikazes, which damaged her sister ships and as well as destroyer ; another kamikaze crashed freighter Juan de Fuca off Panay. After unloading her cargo on 22 December, the LST then evacuated 47 Army casualties and 13 survivors of LST-460 and transported them to Leyte, anchoring in San Pedro Bay on 24 December.
Luzon operations
After loading an LCVP and 500 tons of cargo, LST-911 proceeded for Lingayen Gulf on 4 January 1945. While a three-plane attack on the convoy was driven off without loss on 7 January, a Japanese plane dropped two bombs about off the starboard quarter soon after the convoy anchored in Lingayen Gulf on 9 January. The next morning a plane flew straight over the LST in the morning darkness, dropping two bombs that fell astern, shaking the ship but doing no damage. Finally, on 11 January, the LST finished unloading supplies and equipment and returned to Leyte with three casualties embarked. Intermittent air attacks kept the crew at battle stations over the next two days. LST-911 made a second supply run to Lingayen Gulf 21–27 January, returning to Leyte with 150 Army casualties on 5 February, and transferring them to and the Dutch hospital ship Maetsuycker over the next two days.