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{{Infobox ship image| Ship image=LST-357 loading.jpg | Ship caption=LST-357 loading vehicles before the Normandy invasion
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United States | 1946}} | Ship name=USS LST-357 | Ship namesake= | Ship ordered= | Ship builder=Charleston Navy Yard | Ship laid down=24 October 1942 | Ship launched=16 November 1942 | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned=8 February 1943 | Ship decommissioned=8 June 1946 | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship struck=31 July 1946 | Ship reinstated= | Ship honours=3 battle stars | Ship fate=Sold for scrap, 1 April 1948 | Ship status= | Ship notes=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | LST-1|tank landing ship}} | 4080|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} full | 328|ft|m|abbr=on}} | 50|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship draft=*Light :- {{convert|2|ft|4|in|m|abbr=on}} forward
- {{convert|7|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} aft
- Sea-going :
- {{convert|8|ft|3|in|m|abbr=on}} forward
- {{convert|14|ft|1|in|m|abbr=on}} aft
- Landing :
- {{convert|3|ft|11|in|m|abbr=on}} forward
- {{convert|9|ft|10|in|m|abbr=on}} aft
| 900|hp|0|abbr=on}} 12-567 diesel engines, 2 shafts, twin rudders | 12|kn|lk=in}} | 24000|nmi|km|abbr=on}} at {{convert|9|kn|abbr=on}} while displacing 3960 tons | Ship complement=9 officers, 120 enlisted | Ship sensors= | Ship EW= | Ship armament=*2 × twin 40 mm gun mounts w/Mk.51 directors- 4 × single 40 mm gun mounts
- 12 × single 20 mm gun mounts
| Ship armor= | Ship notes=
}} | USS LST-357 was an {{sclass-|LST-1|tank landing ship}} of the United States Navy active during the Second World War. Whilst never formally named, she was nicknamed Palermo Pete by her crew. She was laid down in October 1942 at the Charleston Navy Yard, and commissioned in February 1943. LST-357 first saw service at the invasion of Sicily in July 1943, and then at the Salerno landings in September, where a crew of just under 150 all ranks took some 90 casualties. In 1944 she moved to England to support the Normandy landings, landing on Omaha Beach on D-Day. Following the end of the war, she served on occupation duties in the Far East, before being decommissioned in June 1946 and sold for scrapping in April 1948. References- {{navsource|10/16/160357|LST-357}}
- {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/l16/lst-357.htm}}
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