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USS LCI(L)-326

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Juliet - Papa - Kilo
NJPK

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive - 6 June 1944) - Coast Guard Unit Commendation - American Campaign Medal - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal (4)
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
Individual Awards

Silver Star (LT Samuel W. Allison, CO, LCI(L)- 326) - 6 June 1944 at Normandy)

USS LCI(L)-326 was manned by the US Coast Guard

LCI-1 Class Landing Craft Infantry (Large):

Laid down (date unknown) at Brown Shipbuilding Corp, Houston, TX.

Launched (date unknown)

Commissioned USS LCI(L)-326, 31 October 1942, at Orange, TX., LT Samuel W. Allison, USCGR in command

Succeeding Commanding Officer:

LTjg. James Jones, USCGR - 15 September 1944 - 7 May 1946

During World War II USS LCI(L)-326 was first assigned to the Europe-Africa-Middle East Theater, LCI Flotilla 4 / 10, Capt. M. E. Imlay, USCG in command and subsequently was reassigned to the Asiatic=Pacific Theater and participated in the following campiagns:

Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign	Asiatic-Pacific Campaign
Campaigns and Dates	Campaign and Dates
North African occupation Tunisian operations, 1 June to 9 July 1943	Okinawa Gunto operation Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 29 May to 30 June 1945
Sicilian occupation, 9 July 1943
Salerno landings, 9 September 1943
Invasion of Normandy, 6 to 25 June 1944

Following World War II USS LCI(L)-326 proceeded to Sasebo via Nagasaki, Japan and was assigned to C.T.G. 55.2 at Nagoya for Navy Occupation Service from 2 September to 27 November 1945

Decommissioned, 7 May 1946, at New Orleans, LA.

Struck from the Naval Register in 1946

Final Disposition, sold, 13 December 1946, fate unknown

USS LCI(L)-325 five battle stars for World War II service

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 3 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 AA gun mounts 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

Size	Image Description	Source
1976k	From left to right, front row: USS LCI(L)-218, USS LCI(L)-35, USS LCI(L)-14, USS LCI(L)-326, USS LCI(L)-88, USS LCI(L)-91 and USS LCI(L)-229 From left to right back row: USS LCI(L)-2, USS LCI(L)-90, USS LCI(L)-320, USS LCI(L)-16, USS LCI(L)-3, USS LCI(L)-213, USS LCI(L)-321, USS LCI(L)-4, USS LCI(L)-86, USS LCI(L)-212, USS LCI(L)-217, USS LCI(L)-8, USS LCI(L)-83 and USS LCI(L)-94, massed at Bizerte, Tunisia, 6 July 1943 while loading troops for the invasion of Sicily. US Army Signal Corps photo # 176486, now in the collections of the US National Archives.	Dave Kerr
94k	USS LCI(L)-326 along with the rest of LCI Flotillas Two and Four ready to sail to North Africa with the Third Infantry Division.	Bill Brinkley
73k	USS LCI(L)-326 beached while unloading her troops during a training exercise, date and location unknown.	Wes Stone, Lusby, MD. -"In memory of the men of the USNATB, Solomons, MD."
106k	USS LCI(L)-326 off loading troops during training exercises at Slapton Sands, England, prior to the invasion of Normandy.	Jerry Gilmartin MMC(SW) USN Ret. Secretary AFMM LCI 713, Curator PT-658 Save the PT Boat Inc, courtesy Dennis Blocker LCI National Association Historian
32k	USS LCI(L)-326 and *LCI(L)-320* beached, location and location unknown.	Wayne Caldwell USS LCI(L)-89 and USS LCI(L)-320
166k	Men from Texas and Oklahoma of the 90th Infantry Division aboard USS LCI(L)-326 bound for Normandy for the D-day invasion.	Jerry Gilmartin MMC(SW) USN Ret. Secretary AFMM LCI 713, Curator PT-658 Save the PT Boat Inc, courtesy Dennis Blocker LCI National Association Historian
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160k	USS LCI(L)-326 off loading 90th Infantry Division troops into LCVPs for their run into the beach at Normandy, on D-day, 6 June 1944.	Jerry Gilmartin MMC(SW) USN Ret. Secretary AFMM LCI 713, Curator PT-658 Save the PT Boat Inc, courtesy Dennis Blocker LCI National Association Historian
128k	A crane off loads machinery from USS LCI(L)-326 as she lays beached at Normandy, date unknown.	Jerry Gilmartin MMC(SW) USN Ret. Secretary AFMM LCI 713, Curator PT-658 Save the PT Boat Inc, courtesy Dennis Blocker LCI National Association Historian
143k	USS LCI(L)-326 underway returning to England from Normandy with German Prisoners of War aboard, date unknown.	Jerry Gilmartin MMC(SW) USN Ret. Secretary AFMM LCI 713, Curator PT-658 Save the PT Boat Inc, courtesy Dennis Blocker LCI National Association Historian
180k	USS LCI(L)-326 at anchor, date and location unknown. US Coast Guard photo from the collections of the US Coast Guard Historian's Office.	Mike Green