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USS LCI(M)-355
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 USS LCI(G)-355 (1944 - 1945)
 USS LCI(L)-355 (1943 - 1944)


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Hotel - Xray - Victor
 NHXV
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive - Iwo Jima)
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2) - World War II Victory Medal
LCI(L)-351 Class Landing Craft Infantry (Large):
  • Laid down, 11 April 1943, at George Lawley & Sons Shipbuilding Corp., Neponset, MA.
  • Launched, 20 May 1943
  • Commissioned USS LCI(L)-355, 9 June 1943, LTjg. A.V. Cole USNR in command (May 1945)
  • Reclassified Landing Craft Infantry (Guns), LCI(G)-355 31 December 1944
  • Reclassified Landing Craft Infantry (Mortar), LCI(M)-355 30 April 1945
  • During World War II USS LCI(L)-355 / LCI(G)-355 / LCI(M)-355 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:

    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Iwo Jima operations
    Assault and occupation of Iwo Jima, 19 to 26 February 1945 (as LCI(G)-355)     		Okinawa Gunto operations
    Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 26 March to 14 June 1945
    (as LCI(G)-355 and LCI(M)-355)

  • Decommissioned, date unknown
  • Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown
  • USS LCI(G)-355 / LCI(M)-355 earned two battle stars for service in WWII
  • Final Disposition, sold, 20 January 1947, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 246 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
    five single 20mm guns, one bow mounted, 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 guns
    four 20mm guns
    six .50cal machine guns
    10 MK7 rocket launchers
    LCI(M) Armament
    one single 40mm gun, forward
    four 20mm guns
    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 869 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
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    LCI(L)-355 56k USS LCI(L)-355 underway prior to being redesignated LCI(G)-355, date and location unknown. Bill Brinkley
    LCI(L)-355 96k USS LCI(G)-355 at Iwo Jima, 19 February 1945.
    Photo from the USS LCI National Association's newsletter "The Elsie Item", March 1999 issue. Photo courtesy of Ed Harms, USS LCI(M)-355, XO 1944-1945, CO 1946.    		 Ardie Hunt
    LCI(L)-355 359k USS LCI(G)-355 (center) and USS LCI(G)-353 (left) maneuvering during amphibious exercises at Maui prior to the Iwo Jima operation. Jerry Gilmartin MMC(SW) USN Ret. Secretary AFMM LCI 713, Curator PT-658 Save the PT Boat Inc, courtesy Dennis Blocker LCI National Association Historian
    The history for USS LCI(L)-355 / LCI(G)-355 / LCI(M)-355 is from USS LCI "Landing Craft Infantry", Vol. II. Paducah, Kentucky: Turner Publishing Company, © 1995. (ISBN 1-56311-262-0)
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    USS Landing Craft Infantry National Association
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