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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 Finschhafen occupation, 22 September 1943 Saidor occupation, 2 to 3 January 1944 | Hollandia operation
21 to 25 April 1944 |
| Bismarck Archipelago operation
Cape Gloucester, New Britain, 26 to 27 December 1943 | Western New Guinea operation
Toem-Wakde-Salmi area operation, 17 May 1944 Biak Island operation, 27 to 1 June 1944 Morotai landings, 15 September 1944 |
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54k | USS LCI(L)-27 enroute to Guam, date unknown. Photo from USS LCI National Association's Newsletter "The Elsie Item", April 2005 issue. Photo courtesy of Richard C. Maconi | Ardie Hunt | |
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51k | Troops of the 29th Australian Infantry Brigade, 5th Australian Division loading stores aboard USS LCI(L)-27,
15 July 1943, prior to their move from Gili Gili, New Guinea to Buna, New Guinea. Australian War Memorial, Photo No.'s 054585 and 054590 |
Mike Green | |
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70k | Troops of the 29th Australian Infantry Brigade, 5th Australian Division embarking in USS LCI(L)-27, 15 July 15 1943,
as part of their move from Gili Gili, New Guinea to Buna, New Guinea. Australian War Memorial, Photo No. 054595 |
Mike Green | |
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379k | USS LCI(L)-27 casts off and heads toward the beach at Saidor, New Guinea in January 1944.
"Landing at Saidor" January 1944. Photographer Myron Davis. Life Magazine. TimeLife_image_116344115 |
David Upton | |
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72k | US Marines disembark from USS LCI(L)-27 and USS LCI(L)-226 probably during a practice landing prior to the landing at Cape Gloucester, New Britain, 26-27 December 1943. Life-Time photo from "Life" issue of March 27, 1944. |
Ardie Hunt for his father Arden L. Hunt SM3/c USS LCI(L)-72 |
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335k | USS LCI(L)-27 is making her approach to the beach in the background as USS LCI(L)-30 is putting troops of second wave ashore at
Sarmi, Dutch New Guinea, 17 May 1944. Here, stretcher bearers are wading through the surf.
US National Archives Identifier 205586901, Local Identifier 26-G-2288, US Coast Guard photo # 2288. |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret. and David Upton |
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57k | USS LCI(L)-27 in drydock at San Pedro Bay, Leyte, Philippines in early 1945. Note the imaginative use of standard 5x8x5 steel "cubes" bolted together to form a drydock. The cubes were also used to form other assemblies such as motor-driven yard barges, floating docks and floating platforms for quonset huts. Photo from USS LCI National Association's Newsletter "The Elsie Item", August 2005 issue. Photo courtesy of Richard C. Maconi USS LCI(L)-27 | Ardie Hunt | |
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106k | USS LCI(L)-27 disembarking troops, date and location unknown | Mike Arciero for his father-in-law LTjg. Albert J McGoogan, USNR CO USS LCI(L)-27 | |
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215k | USS LCI(L)-27 crew photo, date and location unknown. | Wally Thomas | |
| Commanding Officers | ||
| 01 | LTjg. Perkins, Richard B., USNR | 8 December 1942 - December 1943 |
| 02 | LTjg. Hibbard, Howard G., USNR | December 1943 - September 1944 |
| 03 | LTjg. Johnson, Elston L., USNR | September 1944 - December 1944 |
| 04 | LTjg. Gardner, Edwin R., USNR | December 1944 - June 1945 |
| 05 | ENS. McGoogan, Albert J., USNR | June 1945 - December 1945 |
| 06 | LTjg. Maconi, Richard C., USNR | December 1945 - March 1946 |
| 07 | ENS Lund, Charles R., USNR | March 1946 - April 1946 |
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