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LCI(L)-371 / LCI(G)-371

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive) - Navy Unit Commendation
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal
Individual Awards

Lt. Eugene Gooding C.O. USS LCI(G)-371) earned the Silver Star at Saipan

LCI-351 Class Landing Craft Infantry (Large):

Laid down (date unknown) at George Lawley & Sons, Neponset, MA.

Launched (date unknown)

Commissioned as USS LCI(L)-371, 18 September 1943

Redesignated Landing Craft Gunboat LCI(G)-371 (date unknown)

During World War II LCI(L)-371 / LCI(G)-371 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the:

Marianas operation
(a) Capture and occupation of Saipan, 15 June to 3 July 1944

Decommissioned (date unknown)

Struck from the Naval Register in 1946

Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 29 December 1947

Final Disposition, fate unknown

LCI(L)-371 received one battle star for WWII service and the Navy Unit Commendation as a member of LCI(G) Flotilla 3 (31 January to 28 July 1944) for Occupation of Kwajalein and Eniwetok Atolls in the Marshall Islands and Capture and occupation of Saipan, Guam and Tinian in the Marianas

Specifications:
Displacement 246 t.(light), 264 t.(landing), 419 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 4 Officers, 24 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 five single 20mm guns, one bow mounted, one each port and starboard forward of wheelhouse, one each port and starboard aft of wheelhouse, on some LCIs two .50 cal machine guns were added
LCI(G) Armament three 40mm bofor 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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	104k	*LCI(L)-371* hard aground on San Clemente Island, CA., 6 January to 7 February 1944. *LCI(L)-371* was forced onto the rocks at San Clemente during amphibious exercises in January 1944. *LCI(L)-371* had to transported about 2000 yards overland on the beach before she could be re-floated and towed by the salvage tug *Viking* to San Diego for repairs. US Navy photo # ATD P.H. 7015, 1-44, Acorn Training Detachment, Port Hueneme, CA.		H.D. Goodman LCI(L)-371

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
USS Landing Craft Infantry National Association

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