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USS LCI(G)-471
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USS LCI(L)-471 (1943 - 1944)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Quebec - Papa - Oscar
NQPO

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive - Iwo Jima, 17 to 19 February) - Presidential Unit Citation
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2) - World War II Victory Medal
Personnel Awards

Navy Cross - LTjg. Robert S. Hudgins USNR, CO LCI(G)-471, Iwo Jima / Bronze Star - SM/1c Charles Sutherland, Iwo Jima

LCI(L)-351 Class Landing Craft Infantry (Large):

Laid down, 20 August 1943, at New Jersey Shipbuilding Co., Barber, N.J.

Launched, 23 September 1943

Commissioned as USS LCI(L)-471, 30 September 1943, LTjg Robert S. Hudgins USNR in command

Reclassified Landing Craft Infantry (Gunboat) LCI(G)-471, 15 June 1944

During World War II USS LCI(L)-471 / LCI(G)-471 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
LCI Flotilla Three. CDR. M. J. Malanaphy / CDR. Eikel R. Jr. USNR;
LCI Group Eight, LCDR W. V. Nash USNR;
LCI Division Fifteen and participated in the following campaigns:

Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
Marianas operation Capture and occupation of Guam, 14 July to 15 August 1944	Iwo Jima operation Assault and occupation of Iwo Jima, 17 to 19 February 1945

Decommissioned, date unknown

Struck from the Naval Register, 8 May 1946

USS LCI(G)-471 earned two battle stars for WWII service and the Presidential Unit Citation for operations at Iwo Jima, 17 February 1945

Final Disposition, fate unknown

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 four GM Diesels engines, four per shaft, BHP 1,600

twin variable pitch propellers

Size	Image Description	Source
73k	USS LCI(G)-471, can just be seen in the background beyond the bow of *USS Castle Rock* (AVP-35)** in Tanapag Harbor, Saipan, April 1945. Cropped from US National Archives photo # 80-N-K-16186 (Color), a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.	Ramon Jackson
11k	USS LCI(G)-471 coming alongside an unidentified US Navy ship, date and location unknown.	Bill Brinkley
62k	USS LCI(G)-471 underway in heavy seas, date and location 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
59k	USS LCI(G)-471 moored outboard of another vessel, date and location unknown. Note the Signalman, probably SM1/c Charles Sutherland, on the conning tower.	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
25k	USS LCI(G)-471 crewman James Bernethy sent this picture home to his family. He probably got it from a Marine on Guam. No doubt, this soldier was killed there.	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