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USS LCI(G)-407
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 USS LCI(L)-407 (1944)


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Juliet - Sierra - Zulu
 NJSZ
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (4) - World War II Victory Medal - Philippine Liberation Medal (2)
LCI-351 Class Landing Craft Infantry (Large):
  • Laid down, 10 January 1944, at George Lawley & Sons Shipbuilding Corp., Neponset, MA.
  • Launched, 16 January 1944
  • Commissioned USS LCI(L)-407, 22 January 1944
  • Reclassified Landing Craft Infantry (Gunboat) LCI(G)-407, 15 June 1944
  • During World War II USS LCI(L)-407 / LCI(G)-407 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaigns and Dates Campaigns and Dates
    Leyte operation
    Leyte landings, 20 October 1944     		Manila Bay-Bicol operations
    Nasugbu, 31 January to 2 February 1945
    Luzon operation
    Lingayen Gulf landing, 9 January 1945     		Okinawa Gunto operation
    Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 24 March to 1 June 1945

  • Decommissioned, date unknown
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1946
  • Transferred to the State Department, 25 May 1948
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
  • USS LCI(G)-407 received four battle stars for World War II service
    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(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, ten MK7 rocket launchers
    Fuel Capacity 130 tons, lube oil 200 gal.
    Propulsion two sets of 4 GM diesels, 4 per shaft, BHP 1,600, twin variable pitch propellers
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    LCI(L)-405 74k USS LCI(L)-407, USS LCI(L)-405 and USS LCI(L)-406 at the outfitting dock at George Lawley & Sons Shipbuilding Corp., Neponset, MA., 16 January 1944.
    George Lawley & Sons Shipbuilding Corp. photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.    		 Jerry Gilmartin AFMM secretary LCI-713 restoration crew
    LCI(L)-407 236k View of the "Black Cats" LCIs from USS LCI(L)-407, date and location unknown.
    US National Archives photo.    		 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
    LCI(L)-407 398k USS LCI(L)-407 at anchor, date and location unknown.
    US National Archives photo.    		 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
    LCI(L)-405 532k USS LCI(L)-407 at anchor, date and location unknown. Note tarp over the main deck to provide shade.
    US National Archives photo.    		 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
    LCI-78 69k From left to right ;
    USS LCI(G)-78,
    USS LCI(G)-407,
    USS LCI(G)-473,
    USS LCI(G)-366
    USS LCI(G)-77
    USS LCI(G)-948
    USS LCI(L)-38
    USS LCI(G)-546
    USS LCI(G)-440     and
    USS LCI(G)-439 moored in a nest at Pearl Harbor, July 1945.
    Photo from the LCI National Association's Newsletter "The Elsie Item", June 1996 issue.    		 Ardie Hunt
    LCI(L)-407
    1015040705    		 435k USS LCI(L)-407 crew photos
    1015040705 - Wally Aliken straddling gun
    1015040706 - 40mm gun crew
    1015040707 - Lewis Alexander S/1c aka Lewis Alexander Mason and Leo Morin GM/3c on the right
    1015040708 - RM/3c Earl Dopp.
    US National Archives photos.    		 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
    LCI(L)-407
    1015040706    		 889k
    LCI(L)-407
    1015040707    		 503k
    LCI(L)-407
    1015040708    		 167k
    The history for USS LCI(L)-407/ LCI(G)-407 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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