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USS LCI(L)-371

International Radio Call Sign:
November - India - Juliet - Golf
NIJG

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive) - Navy Unit Commendation
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal
Individual Awards

LT. Eugene Gooding C.O. USS LCI(G)-371) earned the Silver Star at Saipan

LCI-351 Class Landing Craft Infantry (Large):

Laid down, 23 August 1943, at George Lawley & Sons, Neponset, MA.

Launched, 13 September 1943

Commissioned as USS LCI(L)-371, 18 September 1943, LT. Eugene Gooding, USNR, in command

During World War II USS LCI(L)-371 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
LCI Flotilla Nineteen, LCDR. E. C. Folger;
LCI Group Fifty-Seven, LCDR. A. J. Ormstom;
LCI Division One Hundred Thirteen and participated in the campaign:

Campaigns and Dates
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign
Marianas operation Capture and occupation of Saipan, 15 June to 3 July 1944

Decommissioned, date unknown

Struck from the Naval Register in 1946

USS LCI(L)-371 earned one battle star for WWII service and the Navy Unit Commendation as a member of LCI(G) Flotilla 3 (31 January to 28 July 1944) for Occupation of Kwajalein and Eniwetok Atolls in the Marshall Islands and Capture and occupation of Saipan, Guam and Tinian in the Marianas

Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 29 December 1947

Final Disposition, 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

Complement

4 Officers

24 Enlisted

Troop Capacity

6 Officers

182 Enlisted

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

Armament

five single 20mm gun mounts, 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

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

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	104k	USS LCI(L)-371 hard aground on San Clemente Island, CA., 6 January to 7 February 1944. *LCI(L)-371* was forced onto the rocks at San Clemente during amphibious exercises in January 1944. *LCI(L)-371* had to be transported about 2000 yards overland on the beach before she could be refloated and towed by the salvage tug *Viking* to San Diego for repairs. US Navy photo # ATD P.H. 7015, 1-44, Acorn Training Detachment, Port Hueneme, CA.	H.D. Goodman LCI(L)-371
	217k	USS LCI(L)-371 hard aground on San Clemente Island, CA., 6 January to 7 February 1944.	Chris Gooding for his father LT. Eugene Gooding, USNR, CO LCI(L)-371
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1015037113	168k	USS LCI(L)-371 underway in San Francisco Bay, at the end of World War II, circa 1945. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 86180	Darryl Baker
	337k	Ex-USS LCI(L)-371 along ex-USS LCI(R)-645 and other LCIs tied to trees along the banks of the Sabine River, at Orange, TX., circa 1946.	James Swank