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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, 9 to 13 September. 1943 Finschhafen occupation, 22 September 1943 Saidor occupation, 1 to 28 February 1944 | Luzon operation
Lingayen Gulf landing, 4 to 18 January 1945 |
Bismarck Archipelago operation
Cape Gloucester, New Britain, 26 to 27 December 1943 | Manila Bay-Bicol operations
Nasugbu. 31 January to 2 February 1945> |
Western New Guinea operation
Toem-Wakde-Sarmi area operation, 19 May 1944 Biak Island operation, 27 to 28 May 1944, 16 June 1944 Noemfoor Island operation, 2to 7 July 1944 Cape Sansapor operation, 30 July to 4 Aug. 1944 Morotai landings, 15 September 1944 | Borneo operation
Balikpapan operation. 26 June to 7 July 1945 |
Leyte operation
Leyte landings, 12 October to 29 November 1944 Ormoc Bay landings, 7 December 1944 |
Navy Occupation Service Medal |
China Service Medal (extended) |
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29 September to 5 December 1945 | 29 September to 5 December 1945 |
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Size | Image Description | Contributed By |
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89k | USS LCI(L)-73, USS LCI(L)-34 and USS LCI(L)-430 moored, date and location unknown. | Bill Brinkley | ||
1240k | USS LCI(G)-73 landing infantry on the beach during the Saidor occupation, as part of the Eastern New Guinea operation, circa 1 to 28 February 1944. US Army Signal Corps photo. |
Dave Kerr | ||
63k | USS LCI(G)-73 underway off Morotai, 15 September 1944. Note she has been reconfigured as an LCI(R). US National Archives image |
Bill Brinkley | ||
174k | USS LCI(R)-73 underway as a unit of the 7th Amphibious Group, date and location unknown. US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives |
National Association of USS LCS(L) 1-130 | ||
202k | Artwork by Peter Bull depicting USS LCI(R)-73 along with USS LCI(R)-34 and USS LCI(R)-31 firing rockets in the Pacific. Photo and text from "Landing Craft, Infantry And Fire Support" by Gordon L. Rottman |
Robert Hurst | ||
97k | USS LCI(R)-31, USS LCI(R)-34 and USS LCI(R)-73 along with three unidentified LCIs beached at Townsville, Australia while loading troops, probably for the Borneo operation in June 1945. | Peter Dunn | ||
73k | USS LCI(R)-73 partial crew photo, date and location unknown. Photo courtesy John Hoffman, USS LCI-73. Photo from the USS LCI National Association's newsletter "The Elsie Item", June 2006 issue |
Ardie Hunt |
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