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USS LSIL-952
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 USS LCI(M)-952 (1945 - 1949)
 USS LCI(L)-952 (1944 - 1945)


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Yankee - Uniform - Kilo
 NYUK
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 Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
LCI-351 Class Landing Craft Infantry (Large):
  • Laid down, 10 February 1944, at Consolidated Steel Corp, Shipbuilding Div., Orange, TX. in 1944
  • Launched, 7 March 1944
  • Commissioned USS LCI(L)-952, 1 April 1944
  • During World War II USS LCI(L)-952 was assigned to the Europe-Africa-Middle East Theater and participated in the following campaign;

    Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign
    Campaign and Date
    Invasion of southern France, 15 August to 14 September 1944
  • Reclassified Landing Craft Infantry (Mortar) LCI(M)-952, 5 May 1945
  • Following service in the Europe-Africa-Middle East Theater USS LCI(M)-952 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)-952 performed occupation duty in the Far East from 15 August to 14 September 1945
  • Reclassified Landing Ship Infantry Large LSIL-952, 14 November 1949
  • Decommissioned, date unknown
  • Struck from the Naval Register in 1946
  • USS LCI(L)-952 earned one battle star for World War II service
  • Sold, 13 December 1950
  • 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
    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 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(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 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
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    LCI-943 114k LCIs moored at Bizerte, Tunisia, circa May 1944 (from left to right):
    USS LCI(L)-952,
    USS LCI(L)-39,
    USS LCI(L)-592,
    USS LCI(L)-595,
    USS LCI(L)-943,
    USS LCI(L)-529,
    USS LCI(L)-47, and
    USS LCI(L)-526    		 Photo by Robert W. Van Keuren CO USS LCI(L)-665
    LST-664 540k USS LST-664 moored in the port of Nisida Italy, 9 August 1944 with an unidentified LST alongside and the following LCIs:
    Front row, left to right;
    USS LCI(L)-951
    USS LCI(L)-520
    USS LCI(L)-954
    Back row, left to right;
    USS LCI(L)-950 and
    USS LCI(L)-952.    		 Jerry Gilmartin MMCS(SW) Ret., PT658 Curator, LCI713 AFMM Secretary
    The history for USS LCI(L)-952 / LCI(M)-952 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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