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Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign |
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign |
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Campaigns and Dates | Campaigns and Dates |
North African occupation
Tunisian operations, 1 June to 9 July 1943 |
Okinawa Gunto operation
Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 29 May to 30 June 1945 |
Sicilian occupation, 9 to 15 July 1943 | Minesweeping operations, 9 to 15 July 1943
Skagway (East China Sea-Ryukyus Area) - 27 October to 1 November 1945 |
Salerno landings, 9 to 21 September 1943 | |
Invasion of Normandy, 6 to 25 June 1944 |
After participating in the invasion of France, USS LCI(L)-84 left the United Kingdom 4 October 1944, for Charleston, S.C., where she remained undergoing overhaul and repair until 15 December 1944. USS LCI(L)-84, now reassigned to the Asiatic Pacific Theater, LCI Flotilla 35, departed for San Diego via Key West and the Canal Zone and arrived there 18 April 1945. At San Diego USS LCI(L)-84 was attached to a ship training group at Coronado, CA,, from 23 January to 4 April1 1945 before proceeding to Okinawa via Pearl Harbor, Eniwetok, Guam, Ulithi and Leyte. At Okinawa USS LCI(L)-84) was assigned to carrying passengers and mail between nearby islands from 28 May to September 1945. USS LCI(L)-84 reached Wakayama 11 September 1945 becoming part of the Mine Destruction Unit in Kii Suido. Detached from that duty, 19 October 1945, she proceeded to Sasebo where on 26 October she was designated a mine disposal vessel on the "Skagway" sweeping operation in the East China Sea. She returned to Sasebo from this duty 1 November 1945, and remained there until the 12th when she proceeded to Nagoya. On 27 November she left Nagoya for Saipan, arriving 3 December 1945. Departing Saipan December 1945, she arrived at Galveston, Texas, 28 February 1946
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805k | USS LCI(L)-84 landing troops in the Mediterranean theater, date and location unknown. | Peter Ansley for his father Rev. Charles Coke Ansley Jr. USS LCI(L)-84 | ||
73k | USS LCI(L)-93 and
USS LCI(L)-85,
USS LCI(L)-92,
USS LCI(L)-84 and
USS LCI(L)-349 moored pierside and forward of two unidentified transports at the Pig Iron Battle Fleet Site, Oran, Algeria, October 1943. Photo by John R Smith Jr. USS LCI(L)-90. |
Robert G. Morrissey | ||
87k | USS LCI(L)-84, USS LCI(L)-87 and USS LCI(L)-497 tied up in the background along with Royal Navy landing craft, (LCA)s preparing to sail the English Channel and invade Nazi-occupied France. These landing craft landed US troops on Omaha Beach. USCG photo, date unknown. |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret | ||
256k | USS LCI(L)-84, USS LCI(L)-87 and USS LCI(L)-497 tied up in the
background along with Royal Navy landing craft, (LCA)s preparing to sail the English Channel and invade Nazi-occupied France. These landing craft landed US troops on Omaha Beach.
USCG photo, date unknown. A US National Archives photo from the USS National LCI Association newsletter "The Elsie Item" April 2009 issue, Courtesy Dennis Blocker. |
Ardie Hunt | ||
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301k | USS LCI(L)-84, USS LCI(L)-87 and USS LCI(L)-497 tied up in the
background along with Royal Navy landing craft, (LCA)s preparing to sail the English Channel and invade Nazi-occupied France. These landing craft landed US troops on Omaha Beach.
An Imperial War Museum, London, photo in the collections of the US National Archives |
David Upton | |
75k | USS LCI(L)-84 underway, circa 1943, location unknown. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, November 1943 issue |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret | ||
76k | USS LCI(L)-84 and LCI(L)-87 in an English port, date unknown. | Bill Brinkley | ||
54k | USS LCI(L)-84 off loading troops at Slapton Sands, England, during amphibious exercises, 1944 US National Archives image |
Bill Brinkley | ||
53k | USS LCI(L)-84 off loading troops at Slapton Sands, England, during amphibious exercises, 1944 US National Archives image |
Bill Brinkley | ||
68k | USS LCI(L)-84 beached during amphibious exercises in England in 1944. Photo from USS LCI National Association's newsletter "The Elsie Item", August 2008 issue. A US Navy photo from the US National Archives, courtesy Dennis Blocker. | Ardie Hunt | ||
659k | USS LCI(L)-84 moored pierside, Dartmouth, England, 1944 | Peter Ansley for his father Rev. Charles Coke Ansley Jr. USS LCI(L)-84 | ||
834k | USS LCI(L)-84 hauled out of the water and drydocked at Dartmouth, England, 1944 | Peter Ansley for his father Rev. Charles Coke Ansley Jr. USS LCI(L)-84 | ||
43k | GM1 Charles C. Ansley Jr. firing the 20mm bow gun aboard USS LCI(L)-84, date and location unknown. | Peter Ansley for his father Rev. Charles Coke Ansley Jr. USS LCI(L)-84 | ||
542k | Views of the Omaha beachhead from the bow gun mount of USS LCI(L)-84 as the ship approaches the landing beaches, 6 June 1944. Photos by Charles C. Ansley Jr. GM1. | Peter Ansley for his father Rev. Charles Coke Ansley Jr. USS LCI(L)-84 | ||
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Commanding Officers | ||
01 | LTjg. Mains, Everett USCGR | 23 January 1943 - ? |
02 | LTjg Treinen, R.F. USCGR | WWII |
03 | LTjg Read, H.L. USCGR | WWII |
04 | LTjg Setman, Marshall S. Setman, USCGR | WWII |
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