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Convoy UGS-38, 20 April 1944 | Invasion of Normandy, 6 to 25 June 1944 |
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2633k | Troops prepare to board their ships for the Normandy invasion from LCVPs in an English harbor, circa 4 June 1944. USS LCI(L)-403 along with USS LCI(L)-538 (center) and USS LCI(L)-537 are nested together in the center of the harbor waiting their turn to load troops. | 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 | ||
59k | USS LCI(G)-538) at rest and underway, date and location unknown. LCI(G)-538) represented the closest possible approach to an LCS(L). Because the program was stopped with the end of the war, she was probably the only LCI(G) of her type completed. US Navy photos from "U.S. Amphibious Ships and Craft: An Illustrated Design History" by Norman Friedman. |
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