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LCI(L)-22 / LCI(G)-22

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 (5) - World War II Victory Medal - Philippine Liberation Medal (1)
LCI-1 Class Landing Craft Infantry (Large):
  • Laid down (date unknown) at New York Shipbuilding, Camden, N.J.
  • Launched (date unknown)
  • Commissioned USS LCI(L)-22, 8 December 1942
  • Redesignated Landing Craft Gunboat LCI(G)-22, 15 June 1944 During World War II LCI(L)-22 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater as a unit of LCS Flotilla 1 and participated in the:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Consolidation of the Solomon Island
    Consolidation of Northern Solomon Islands. 18 December 1943, 28 April through 15 June 1944     		Consolidation of the Southern Philippines
    Mindanao Island landings, 17 to 23 April 1945
    New Georgia Group operations
    New Georgia, Rendova, Vanguau occupation, 4 July 1943
    Vella Lavella occupation, 12 August, 15 August 1943     		Borneo operations
    Balikpapan operations, 26 June to 7 July 1945
    Treasury-Bougainville operations
    Treasury Island landing, 27 October 1943     		.

  • Decommissioned, (date unknown)
  • Struck from the Naval Register in 1946
  • Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 19 November 1947
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
  • LCI(L)-22 received five 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)-22 62k LCI(G)-22 underway in rough seas, date and place unknown. Submitted by Ardie Hunt, Photo courtesy Robert Seabury.
    LCI(L)-22 71k LCI(G)-22 underway after gunboat conversion in October 1943 during shakedown cruise off Noumea with Adm. W.F. Halsey aboard. Photo from the USS LCI National Association's 2006 calendar Submitted by Ardie Hunt, Photo courtesy Jim Poore RM2/c USS LCI(G)-22
    The history for LCI(L)-22 / LCI(G)-22 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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