USS La Moure County (LST-883)

USS La Moure County (LST-883) was an LST-542-class tank landing ship built for the United States Navy during World War II.

Originally laid down as LST-883 by the Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Company of Evansville, Indiana on 16 November 1944; launched on 30 December 1944, sponsored by Mrs. L. D. McBride; and commissioned at New Orleans, Louisiana on 23 January 1945.

In response to President Truman's order to repel North Korean forces, she embarked Marines and army troops, loaded combat stores, and departed Kobe, Japan on 10 September 1950.

As American naval and ground forces carried out the Inchon invasion, which spearheaded an Allied offensive northward, LST-883 discharged emergency supplies and dueled with enemy guns.

After Chinese Communist armies moved southward into North Korea later that month, she departed Japan on 9 December 1950 for the amphibious evacuation of Hŭngnam.

During August and September she operated along the west coast, and on 2 October she departed San Francisco for the Far East, arriving in Yokosuka on 5 November.

Steaming via Pearl Harbor and Yokosuka, she reached Pusan on 27 July 1953 as the armistice which halted hostilities in this conflict was signed at Panmunjom.

"[1] During August and September she carried troops and supplies from Korea to Japan and transported enemy prisoners from United Nations POW camps to Inchon.

After returning to Yokosuka on 24 September 1953, she made coastal runs to Kobe and Kure and supported amphibious operations off Okinawa during the next five months.

Renamed USS La Moure County (LST-883) on 1 July 1955, she operated with peacekeeping forces between Japan and Korea until sailing for the west coast on 20 September.

La Moure County decommissioned there on 7 December 1959; her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 January 1960; and she was sold for scrapping to Zidell Explorations, Inc. of Portland, Oregon, on 30 November 1960.