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LCI(L)-19 / LCI(G)-19


Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Juliet - Oscar - Lima
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - China Service Medal (extended) - American Campaign Medal - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal (4)
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
LCI-1 Class Landing Craft Infantry (Large):
  • Laid down, (date and place unknown)
  • Launched (date unknown)
  • Commissioned USS LCI(L)-19, 11 December 1942
  • During World War II LCI(L)-19 was assigned to the European Theater as a unit of LCI Flotilla One and participated in the following campaigns:
    Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaigns
    Campaigns and Dates Campaigns and Dates
    Sicilian occupation
    9 to 15 July 1943    		 West Coast of Italy operations
    Anzio-Nettuno advanced landing
    22 January to 5 February 1944
    Salerno landings
    9 to 21 September 1943
    		 Invasion of Southern France
    15 August to 28 September 1944

  • Transferred to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater
  • Redesignated Landing Craft Guns LCI(G)-19, 15 July 1945
  • Following WWII LCI(G)-19 performed occupation duty in the Far East including China Service
  • Decommissioned, (date unknown)
  • Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown)
  • Final Disposition, sold, 5 February 1947, fate unknown
  • LCI(L)-19 received four battle stars for WWII service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 216 t.(light), 234 t.(landing); 389 t.(loaded)
    Length 158' 5 1/2"
    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 3 Officers, 21 Enlisted
    LCI(G) Complement 5 Officers, 65 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 four single 20mm guns one forward, one amidship, two aft, two .50cal machine guns
    LCI(G) Armament two 40mm guns, four 20mm guns, six .50cal machine guns, ten MK7 rocket launchers
    Fuel Capacity 130 tons, lube oil 200 gal.
    Propulsion two sets of 4 GM diesels, 4 per shaft, BHP 1,600, twin variable pitch propellers
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    LCI(L)-19 46k LCI(L)-19 coming alongside another LCI at Bizerte, North Africa, date unknown. Photo courtesy of Joe Labbancz, from the USS LCI National Association's newsletter, "The Elsie Item", September 1997 issue. Ardie Hunt
    LCI(L)-221,75,19 46k LCI(L)-221, LCI-75 and LCI(L)-19 showing the damage inflicted on LCI(L)-75 from a collision with LCI(L)-193, date and location unknown. Tom Hunter for his father Bruce Hunter RM3/c USS LCI(L)-193
    LCI(L)-,75,19 48k LCI-75 and LCI(L)-19 showing the damage inflicted on LCI(L)-75 from a collision with LCI(L)-193, date and location unknown. Tom Hunter for his father Bruce Hunter RM3/c USS LCI(L)-193
    LCI(L)-45 77k From right to left LCI(L)-45, LCI)L)-44 and LCI)L)-19 waiting to embark members of the 3rd Ranger Battalion for the landings at Anzio, Italy, 22 January 1944. Robert Hurst
    The history for LCI(L)-19 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
    Fleet Reserve Association
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    USS Landing Craft Infantry National Association
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