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USS LCI(M)-756
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USS LCI(G)-756 (1944 - 1945)
USS LCI(L)-756 (1944)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Quebec - Papa - Echo
NQPE

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - China Service Medal (extended)
Second Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (3) - World War II Victory Medal
Third Row - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - Philippines Presidential Unit Citation - Philippine Liberation Medal (1)

LCI-351 Class Landing Craft Infantry (Large):

Laid down, 5 April 1944, at Commercial Iron Works, Portland, OR.

Launched, 28 April 1944

Commissioned USS LCI(L)-756, 11 May 1944, LTjg. M. C. Wunsch, USNR in command (May 1945)

Reclassified LCI(G)-756. 31 December 1944

Reclassified LCI(M)-756, 30 April 1945

During World War II USS LCI(L)-756 / LCI(G)-756 / LCI(M)-756 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
LCI Flotilla Twenty-One, CDR. L. B. Balliere, USNR;
LCI Group Sixty-One, LCDR. W. T. Dom, USNR;
LCI Division One Hundred Twenty-One and participated in the following campaigns::

Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
Iwo Jima operation Assault and occupation of Iwo Jima, 19 to 26 February 1945	Manila Bay - Bicol operations Nasugbu, 31 January to 2 February 1945
Okinawa Gunto operation Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 26 March to 14 June 1945

Following World War II USS LCI(M)-756 was assigned to Occupation and China service in the Far East for the following periods:

Navy Occupation Service Medal	China Service Medal (extended)
11 December 1945 to 11 February 1946
12 February to 24 March 1946	12 February to 24 March 1946

Decommissioned in July 1946, at San Diego, CA.

Struck from the Naval Register in 1946

USS LCI(L)-756 earned three battle stars for World War II service as LCI(G)-756 / LCI(M)-756.

Final Disposition, sold, 18 November 1946, 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

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
1015075606	177k	USS LCI(L)-756 underway off Coronado Island, CA. while assigned to the Training Command Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet. Frame from a short film called "The LCI (L) Description and Employment" National Archives I.D. 13007, Local ID 80-MN-4308A, Dept. of the Navy. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. Naval Observatory.	David Upton
1015075602	23k	USS LCI(G)-756 fires a 4.2-inch mortar shell during the bombardment of Iwo Jima in February 1945. Photo from USS LCI National Association's newsletter, the "Elsie Item", June 2019.	Ardie Hunt
1015075603	41k	USS LCI(G)-756 unloading Japanese prisoners into a whaleboat at Naha City, Okinawa in June 1945. *LCI(M)-756* rescued a number of starving and beaten Japanese from the water along the Okinawa shoreline. Photo from USS LCI National Association's newsletter, the "Elsie Item", June 2019.	Ardie Hunt
1015075605	345k	USS LCI(G)-756 underway in the transport area off Okinawa, 2 April 1945. Photo taken from USS LST-789 US National Archives Identifier 205586468, Local Identifier 26-G-4423. ID Coast Guard photo # 4423.	David Upton
1015075604	25k	USS LCI(M)-756 and USS LCI(M)-757 moored alongside USS LSM-430 and USS LSM-456 date and location unknown. Photo from USS LCI National Association's newsletter, the "Elsie Item", June 2019.	Ardie Hunt
	19k	USS LCI(M)-756 in the at Yangtze River, Shanghai, China, 1946	Gerald Barmann LCI(M)-756, October-July 1946
	61k	From right to left: USS LCI(G)-462 USS LCI(G)-454 USS LCI(M)-756 USS LCI(G)-542 USS LCI(G)-464 USS LCI(G)-528 USS LCI(G)-472 USS LCI(G)-565 and USS LCI(M)-951 nested together while moored to a buoy at San Diego, CA., in the summer of 1946. Photo from the USS Landing Craft Infantry National Association 2004 Calendar, courtesy Max Wright, USS LCI(G) 80 and USS LCI(G)-462.	Black and White image - Ardie Hunt Colored image - Mark C. Lea in honor of his grandfather Keith F. Lea CO LCI(G)-542
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