I was with the 344th transportation Company out of Virginia Beach, Virginia. Our unit was based at Fort story. The 344th was an amphibious unit. Our mission was to get supplies from ship to shore at the DewLine sites. Our equipment was on two large boats and 4 smaller boat which was load onto an LSD landing ship dock. Lindenwald LSD 6. The army played a major part in getting supplies from ship to shore at these sites.

As a unit of MSTS, she made supply runs to bases In northern Greenland and the Arctic until mid-October 1958. Lindenwald then departed the east coast of Greenland on one of her supply runs. En route, she ran into- an Arctic storm. During the storm she lost her steering controls and lay helpless for several hours. A distress signal was sent out and picked up by USNS Chcuttahoochee (T-AOG-82) which shortly arrived on the scene and towed Lindenwald to a safe anchorage. With her steering controls repaired, but with a notieable list she sailed for New York for further repairs, upon completion of which she was placed in MSTS Ready Reserve.

All of our equipment was lost some of the boat's were damaged beyond repair. If we had to abandon ship during the storm it would have been impossible. Not a good situation to be in.
Regards J Comerford
Cambridge, Massachusetts