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LCI(L)-93


USS LCI(L)-93 was manned by the US Coast Guard
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive, Normandy Invasion, 6 June 1944) - Coast Guard Unit Commendation
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal (4) - World War II Victory Medal

Silver Star ( LTjg. Budd Bornhoft CO LCI(L)-93) - Purple Heart (number unknown for 6 June 1944)
LCI-1 Class Landing Craft Infantry (Large):
  • Laid down (date unknown) at Consolidated Steel Corp. Shipbuilding Div., Orange, TX.
  • Launched (date unknown)
  • Commissioned USS LCI(L)-93, 15 February 1943, with a Coast Guard crew, LTjg Budd B. Bornhoft USCGR in command
  • LCI(L)-93 was assigned to the European Theater, LCI Flotilla 4, Capt. M. E. Imlay, USCG in command, (Flotilla 10 at Normandy) and participated in the:
  • North African occupation:
    (a) Tunisian operation, 1 June to 9 July 1943
  • Sicilian occupation, 9 July 1943
  • Salerno landings, 9 September 1943
  • Invasion of Normandy, 6 June 1944
  • LCI(L)-93 was hit off the coast of France, Easy Red Beach, Omaha area 6 June 1944 and lost.
  • Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown)
  • LCI(L)-93 earned four battle stars for service during world war II
    Specifications:
    Displacement 216 t.(light), 234 t.(landing), 389 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 2 officer, 21 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 knots; and 110 tons of fuel
    Armament four single 20mm guns one forward, one amidship, two aft, later added two .50 cal machine guns
    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)-90,91,92,92,94, 74k From outboard to inboard LCI(L)-92, LCI(L)-94, LCI(L)-90, LCI(L)-93, and LCI(L)-91, at Port Lyautey, Morocco, in May 1943. James Mateyack
    LCI(L)-89/93 105k LCI(L)-89 and LCI(L)-93 waiting to load US Army soldiers to carry them to the Normandy beachhead, circa 5 June 1944 Bill Brinkley
    LCI(L)-93 173k LCI(L)-93 moored outboard in a nest of four LCIs, date and place unknown. Mike Harpe
    LCI(L)-332/93 71k LCI(L)-332 and LCI(L)-93 in an English Channel port, loading US combat troops for the trip the Normandy invasion beach, date unknown.
    US National Archives image     		Bill Brinkley
    LCI(L)-93 112k Watercolor by Navy Combat Artist Dwight Shepler, 1944, titled "The Tough Beach" showing German artillery fire hitting US forces on "Omaha" Beach, on "D-Day" of the Normandy invasion, 6 June 1944. In the foreground is LCI(L)-93, aground and holed. She was lost on this occasion.
    US Navy photo # KN-17825 courtesy of the U.S. Navy Art Collection, Washington, D.C.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    The history for LCI(L)-93 is from "The Coast Guard At War, Transports and Escorts, Volume II"
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
    Fleet Reserve Association
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    US Coast Guard Unit Commendation Flotilla 10 - Group 29 - Division 27
    USS Landing Craft Infantry National Association
    U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office
    The CG History Page
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