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Painting by Rev. Joel Osborne

USS LCI(M)-352
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USS LCI(G)-352 (1944 - 1945)
USS LCI(L)-352 (1943 - 1944)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Hotel - Xray - November
NHXN

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2) - World War II Victory Medal

LCI-351 Class Landing Craft Infantry (Large):

Laid down, 5 March 1943, at George Lawley & Sons, Neponset, MA.

Launched, 10 April 1943

Commissioned USS LCI(L)-352, 18 May 1943, LT P. B. Sadtler USNR in command (May 1945)

Redesignated Landing Craft Infantry (Gunboat) LCI(G)-352, 31 December 1944

Redesignated Landing Craft Infantry (Mortar) LCI(M)-352, 30 April 1945

During World War II USS LCI(L)-351 / LCI(G)-351 / LCI(M)-351 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
LCI Flotilla Fourteen, CAPT. T. W. Rimer;
LCI Group Forty-Two, LCDR. A. H. Conners USNR;
LCI Division Eighty-Four and participated in the following campaigns:

Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
Iwo Jima operation Assault and occupation of Iwo Jima, 19 to 26 February 1945	Okinawa Gunto operation Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 26 March to 14 June 1945

Decommissioned, date unknown

Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown

USS LCI(G)-352 / LCI(M)-352 earned two battle stars for World War II service

Transferred to the State Department, 13 February 1948, for disposal

Final Disposition, fate unknown

Specifications:
Displacement 236 t.(light), 264 t.(landing), 419 t.(loaded)
Length 158' 5½"
Beam 23' 3"

Draft

Light, 3'1½" mean

Landing, 2' 8" forward, 4' 10" aft

Loaded, 5' 4" forward, 5' 11" aft

Speed

16 kts (max.)

14 kts maximum continuous

LCI(L) Complement

4 Officers

24 Enlisted

LCI(G) Complement

5 Officers

65 Enlisted

LCI(M) Complement

4 Officers

49 Enlisted

LCI(L) Troop Capacity

6 Officers

182 Enlisted

LCI(L) Cargo Capacity 75 tons

Armor 2" plastic splinter protection on gun turrets, conning tower and pilot house

Endurance 4,000 miles at 12 kts, loaded, 500 miles at 15 kts; and 110 tons of fuel

LCI(L) Armament

(LCI(L) 351-353 only) four single 20mm gun mounts, one each port and starboard forward of wheelhouse, one each port and starboard aft of wheelhouse

on some LCIs two .50 cal machine guns were added

LCI(G) Armament

two 40mm AA gun mounts

four 20mm AA gun mounts

six .50cal machine guns

ten MK7 rocket launchers

LCI(M) Armament

one single 40mm gun mount, forward

four 20mm gun mounts

three 4.2" chemical mortars mounted in three 4ft x 4ft wooden walled 2" x 6" high sand boxes on the well deck with the three tripod mortar tubes in position to fire forward over the bow, No. 2 Troop Compartment (under well deck) converted to a magazine

Fuel Capacity

Diesel 860 Bbls

lube oil 200 gal

Propulsion

two sets of 4 General Motors 6051 series 71 Diesel engines, 4 per shaft

single General Motors Main reduction gears

two Diesel-drive 30Kw 120V D.C. Ship's Service Generators

twin variable pitch propellers, 2,320shp