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LCI(L)-23 / LCI(G)-23

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive Rendova Island, Solomons, 7JUL43 - Leyte landing, Oct-Nov 1944) - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (6) - World War II Victory Medal - Philippine Liberation Medal (1)
Individual Awards

Purple Heart (Rendova Island, Solomons 2-KIA, 3-WIA - 7 July 1943; Leyte 10-KIA, 24 WIA)
LCI-1 Class Landing Craft Infantry (Large):
  • Laid down (date unknown) at New York Shipbuilding Co., Camden, N.J.
  • Launched (date unknown)
  • Commissioned USS LCI(L)-23, 8 December 1942
  • During World War II LCI(L)-23 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater LCI Flotilla 1 and participated in the:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    New Georgia Group operations
    New Georgia, Rendova, Vanguau occupation, 4 July 1943
    Vella Lavella occupation, 15 August 1943     		Leyte operation
    (a) Leyte landings, 13 October to 29 November 1944
    Treasury-Bougainville operations
    Treasury Island landing, 27 October 1943
    Occupation and defense of Cape Torokina, 29 November 1943     		Consolidation of the Solomon Island
    Consolidation of Northern Solomon Islands. 25-26 March, 8-30 March, 28 April to 15 June 1944
    Western New Guinea operations
    Morotai landing 15 September 1943     		Borneo operations
    Brunei Bay operation, 10 June 1945

  • Redesignated Landing Craft Guns LCI(G)-23, 15 June 1944
  • Decommissioned, (date unknown)
  • Struck from the Naval Register in 1946
  • Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 18 March 1948 Final Disposition, fate unknown LCI(L)-23 received six 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)-23 87k LCI(L)-23, LCI(L)-24, LCI(L)-65 and LCI(L)-63 beached on Rendova Island in the Solomons, 7 July 1943, being unloaded after a bombing raid. A bomb hit between the 24 and 65 which caused the ships to list and come to rest on the bottom. LCI(L)-24 lost 2 dead and 3 wounded. Survivors spent an uneasy night in foxholes on the beach watching the gunfire flare from the Naval Battle of Kula Gulf. Photo from the USS Landing Craft Infantry National Association 2004 Calendar, courtesy Lou Plant SM1/c, USS LCI(L)-24. Ardie Hunt
    LCI(L)-23 55k LCI(G)-23 passing under the Golden Gate Bridge while entering San Francisco Bay in the fall of 1945.
    Photo from the USS LCI National Association's newsletter "The Elsie Item", June 2006 issue.     		Ardie Hunt
    The history for LCI(L)-23 / LCI(G)-23 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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