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USS LCI(G)-465
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USS LCI(L)-465 (1943 - 1944)


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Quebec - November - Oscar
NQNO
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 (4) - World War II Victory Medal - Philippine Liberation Medal (2)
LCI-351 Class Landing Craft Infantry (Large):
  • Laid down, 6 August 1943, at New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp., Barber, N.J.
  • Launched, 11 September 1943
  • Commissioned USS LCI(L)-465, 21 September 1943, LTjg. J. S. Nicholls III USNR in command (May 1945)
  • Reclassified Landing Craft Infantry (Gunboat) LCI(G)-465, 15 June 1944
  • During World War II USS LCI(G)-465 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
    LST Flotilla Three (1944);
    LCI Flotilla Six, CDR. A.R. Montgomery USN;
    LCI Group Eighteen, LCDR. E.L. Yates;
    LCI Div Thirty-Four (May 1945) and participated in the following campaigns:

    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and DatesCampaign and Dates
    Marianas operation
    Capture and occupation of Guam, 21 July to 5 August 1944    		Luzon operation
    Lingayen Gulf landings, 9 January 1945
    Leyte operation
    Leyte landings, 20 October 1944    		Okinawa Gunto operation
    Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 26 March to 1 June 1945

  • Decommissioned, 12 July 1946, at Mobile, AL.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1946
  • USS LCI(G)-465 received four battle stars for World War II service
  • Sold, 25 February 1947, registered as the barge Elsie I, homeported Los Angeles
  • Final Disposition, foundered, 29 April 29, 1951 about 3 ½ miles off Huntington Beach, CA.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 246 t.(light), 264 t. (landing), 419 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
    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 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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    The history for USS LCI(L)-465 / LCI(G)-465 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 - Navy Log
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    Western Caroline Islands Attack Landing Order
    USS Landing Craft Infantry National Association
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