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USS LCI(M)-596
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USS LCI(L)-596 (1944 - 1945)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Papa - Echo - Echo
NPEE

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal (1)
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Medal (with Asia clasp)

LCI-351 Class Landing Craft Infantry (Large):

Laid down, 22 March 1944, at New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp., Barber, N.J.

Launched, 18 April 1944

Commissioned USS LCI(L)-596, 22 April 1944

During World War II USS LCI(L)-596 was assigned to the Europe-Africa-Middle East Theater and participated in the following campaign:

Campaign and Date
Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign
Invasion of southern France, 15 August to 18 September 1944

Reclassified Landing Craft Infantry (Mortar) LCI(M)-596, 5 May 1945

Following service in the Europe-Africa-Middle East Theater USS LCI(M)-596 was reassigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
LCI Flotilla Twenty-One, CDR. L. B. Balliere USNR;
LCI Group Sixty-Two, LT. G. P. Eckel USNR;
LCI Division One Hundred Twenty-Three

Following World War II USS LCI(M)-596 was assigned to Occupation service in the Far East from 19 November 1945 to 2 April 1946

Decommissioned, date unknown

Struck from the Naval Register in 1951

USS LCI(L)-596 earned one battle star for World War II service

Sold, 1 May 1951

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(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 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

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