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Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns |
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| Campaign and Dates | Campaign and Dates |
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| Eastern New Guinea operation
Lae occupation, 4 to 6 September 1943 Finschaffen occupation, 22 September 1943 | Luzon operation
Lingayen Gulf landings, 9 January 1945 Lubang Island, 1 March 1945 |
| Bismarck Archipelago operation
Cape Gloucester, New Britain, 26 and 27 December 1943 | Manila Bay-Bicol operations
Zambales-Subic Bay, 29 to 31 January 1945 Mariveles, 15 February 1945 Corregidor Island, 16 February 1945 |
| Hollandia operation, 21 to 25 April 1944 | Consolidation and capture of Southern Philippines
Zamboanga, Mindanao, 10 March 1945 Saoroc Point, Basilan Island, 16 March 1945 Cotabato (Polloc Harbor), Mindanao Island landings, 17 to 19 April 1945 |
| Western New Guinea operations
Biak Island operation, 27 to 28 May 1944, 29 May to 1 June 1944 Morotai landings, 15 September 1944 | Borneo operation
Balikpapan operation, 1 July 1945 |
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96k | USS LCI(L)-226 during training at Solomon's Island, MD., January 1943 US Navy photo |
Ardie Hunt for his father Arden L. Hunt SM3/c USS LCI(R)-226, 20 July 1944 to 13 April 1945). |
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136k | "As the 226 moves in for landing, camouflaged troops huddle in the forward well deck. Fretted landing ramp at right will shoot forward and flop down on beach." Photo caption from March 27, 1944 issue of "Life" magazine. Story by John Hersey. The story covered the history of USS LCI(L)-226 from commissioning on 14 December 1942 to the landings at Cape Gloucester, New Britain on 26 December 1943. Life Time photos, by O. Landon Miles |
Ardie Hunt for his father Arden L. Hunt SM3/c USS LCI(R)-226, 20 July 1944 to 13 April 1945). |
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1015022501 | 112k | USS LCI(L)-226 and USS LCI(L)-225 landing in April 1944 at Humboldt Bay, Hollandia; carrying units of
the U.S. Army 41st Infantry Division.
Frames from a short film incorrectly named "WESTWARD IS BATAAN", INVASION ADMIRALTY ISLANDS, BISMARCK ARCHIPELAGO, TERRITORY OF NEW GUINEA" U.S. National Archives ID 17572. Local ID 111-ADC-3769; Department of the Army |
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70k | "Between two sisters, the USS LCI 226 lies tied up to a dock at Oro Bay on coast of New Guinea between USS LCI(L)-344, outboard, and USS LCI(L)-338, inboard. U.S. troops who took part in the capture of Salamaua crowd the upper deck." Photo caption from March 27, 1944 issue of "Life" magazine. Story by John Hersey. The story covered the history of LCI(L) 226 from commissioning on 14 December 1942 to the landings at Cape Gloucester, New Britain on 26 December 1943. Life Time photo, by O. Landon Miles |
Ardie Hunt for his father Arden L. Hunt SM3/c USS LCI(R)-226, 20 July 1944 to 13 April 1945). | |
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100k | "An ungainly silhouette" as she lies on beach in the Pacific with one of her ramps down, the 226 nevertheless has practical shape. She was not even designed when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor." Photo caption from March 27, 1944 issue of "Life" magazine. Story by John Hersey. The story covered the history of LCI(L) 226 from commissioning on 14 December 1942 to the landings at Cape Gloucester, New Britain on 26 December 1943. Life Time photo, by O. Landon Miles |
Ardie Hunt for his father Arden L. Hunt SM3/c USS LCI(R)-226, 20 July 1944 to 13 April 1945). | |
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72k | US Marines debark from USS LCI(L)-27 and USS LCI(L)-226, (foreground) probably during a practice landing at New Guinea prior to the landing at Cape Gloucester on 26 December 1943. Life-Time photo from "Life" magazine issue of March 27, 1944. |
Ardie Hunt for his father Arden L. Hunt SM3/c USS LCI(R)-72 | |
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18k | USS LCI(L)-226 crew members, LTjg. Oscar L. Miles and William Harned wearing Japanese helmets. date and location unknown | Ardie Hunt for his father Arden L. Hunt SM3/c USS LCI(R)-72 | |
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37k | USS LCI(L)-226 crew inspection in New Guinea, late 1943. Photo by O. Landon Miles |
Ardie Hunt for his father Arden L. Hunt SM3/c USS LCI(R)-226, 20 July 1944 to 13 April 1945). | |
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49k | USS LCI(L)-226 in convoy, enroute from New Guinea to Sydney, Australia carrying Navy and Army personnel on leave in February 1944. Photo by O. Landon Miles |
Ardie Hunt for his father Arden L. Hunt SM3/c USS LCI(R)-226, 20 July 1944 to 13 April 1945). | |
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60k | USS LCI(L)-226 crew members at Bostrem Bay (Alexishafen), New Guinea in August 1944. Back row: Powell, Conway, Sargent, Zelinski, Macy, Sherill, Hunt, and Sommerer. Front row: Shook, Myers, Salisbury, and Ensign Joyce. Photo by O. Landon Miles |
Ardie Hunt for his father Arden L. Hunt SM3/c USS LCI(R)-226, 20 July 1944 to 13 April 1945). | |
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62k | USS LCI(L)-226 landing troops in the Philippines in 1945. Photo by LTjg Clarke Brooke, USS LCI(L)-361 | Jill Wall for her father LTjg Clarke Brooke, USS LCI(L)-361 | |
| Commanding Officers | ||
| 01 | LTjg. McKnight, Henry Turney, USNR | 14 December 1942 - 27 December 1943 |
| 02 | LTjg. Miles, Oscar Landon, USNR | 27 December 1943 - 4 August 1944 |
| 03 | LTjg. Harned, William L., USNR | 4 August 1944 - 7 March 1945 |
| 04 | LTjg. Coulson, Bennett, USNR | 7 March 1945 - 5 April 1945 |
| 05 | ENS. Joyce, Jack W., USNR | 5 April 1945 - July 1945 |
| 06 | LTjg. Woodard, R. S., USNR | July 1945 - 5 February 1946 |
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