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USS LC(FF)-791
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USS LCI(L)-791 (1944 - 1945)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Whiskey - Kilo - India
NWKI

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 (1) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)

LCI-351 Class Landing Craft Infantry (Large):

Laid down, 6 July 1944, at New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp., Barber, N.J.

Launched, 8 August 1944

Commissioned USS LCI(L)-791, 14 August 1944, LTjg. K. W. Bradley Jr. USNR in command (May 1945)

USS LCI(L)-791 was redesignated Landing Craft (Flotilla Flagship) LC(FF)-791, 20 January 1945

During World War II USS LCI(L)-791 / LC(FF)-791 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
LC(FF) Flotilla Twenty Three, LCDR. R. H. Brazeal USN;
LC(FF) Group Sixty-Nine, LT. T.T. Brooks USN;
LC(FF) Div One Hundred Thirty-Eight and participated in the following campaigns:

Campaign and Dates
Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
Okinawa Gunto operation Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 16 May to 30 June 1945

Following World War II USS LC(FF)-791 was assigned to Occupation service in the Far East from 2 September 1945 to 4 April 1946

Decommissioned at Swan Island Navy Base, Portland, OR. in 1946

Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Columbia River Group in March 1946

Struck from the Naval Register in 1957

LC(FF)-791 earned one battle star for World War II service

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

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

Fuel Capacity

Diesel 130 tons

lube oil 200 gal

Propulsion

two sets of four General Motors Diesel engines, four per shaft, BHP 1,600

twin variable pitch propellers

Size	Image Description	Source
150k	USS LC(FF)-791 beached at Okinawa, date unknown.	Ed Lynch USS LC(FF)-791 and Steve Franklin
155k	USS LC(FF)-791 at anchor, date and location unknown.	Steve Franklin
1192k	USS LC(FF)-791 crew photo, August 1945, location unknown.	Ed Lynch USS LC(FF)-791 and Steve Franklin

Individual Crew Photos

P.J. Steiner
W.L. McGee

The history for USS LCI(L)-791 / LC(FF)-791 is from USS LCI "Landing Craft Infantry", Vol. II. Paducah, Kentucky: Turner Publishing Company, © 1995. (ISBN 1-56311-262-0)

Commanding Officers

01 LTjg. Bradley Jr., K. W., USNR 14 August 1944 - ?

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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Last Updated 6 September 2019

Commanding Officers
01	LTjg. Bradley Jr., K. W., USNR	14 August 1944 - ?

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USS LC(FF)-791
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USS LCI(L)-791 (1944 - 1945)