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LCI(L)-546 / LCI(G)-546

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 (3) - World War II Victory Medal - Philippine Liberation Medal
LCI-351 Class Landing Craft Infantry (Large):
  • Laid down at New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp., Barber, N.J., (date unknown)
  • Launched, (date unknown)
  • Commissioned USS LCI(L)-546, 3 February 1944
  • Reclassified Landing Craft Infantry (Gunboat) LCI(G)-546, 15 July 1945
  • During World War II LCI(L)-546 / LCI(G)-546 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaigns and Dates Campaigns and Dates
    Western New Guinea operations
    Cape Sansapor operation
    31 July and 1 August 1944
    Morotai landings
    15 September 1944
    		 Consolidation and capture of Southern Philippines
    Visayan Island landings
    18 March to 1 April 1945
    Leyte operation
    Leyte landings
    19 to 29 November 1944
    		 .

  • Reverted to Landing Craft Infantry (Large) LCI(L)-546, 10 September 1945
  • Decommissioned (date unknown)
  • Struck from the Naval Register in 1946
  • Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 5 November 1947
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
  • LCI(L)-546 received three battle stars for World War II service
    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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    LCI(L)-546 104k LCI(L)-546 crew, date and place unknown. Dean Bruce for his Grandfather Louis Adams Bruce SC/2c (T) USS LCI(L)-546
    LCI(L)-546 28k Photo taken from LCI(L)-546 while in convoy with other LCIs, enroute Borneo, 8 June 1945. Dean Bruce for his Grandfather Louis Adams Bruce SC/2c (T) USS LCI(L)-546
    LCI(L)-546 20k View from LCI(L)-546 during landings at Borneo, June 1945. Dean Bruce for his Grandfather Louis Adams Bruce SC/2c (T) USS LCI(L)-546
    LCI(L)-546 122k LCI(L)-546 beached, date and place unknown. Dean Bruce for his Grandfather Louis Adams Bruce SC/2c (T) USS LCI(L)-546
    LCI-78 69k From left to right ;
    LCI(G)-78,
    LCI(G)-407    ,
    LCI(G)-473,
    LCI(G)-366
    LCI(G)-77
    LCI(G)-948
    LCI(L)-38
    LCI(G)-546
    LCI(G)-440
    LCI(G)-439     moored in a nest at Pearl Harbor, July 1945.
    Photo from the LCI National Association's Newsletter "The Elsie Item", June 1996 issue.    		 Ardie Hunt
    The history for LCI(L)-546 / LCI(G)-546 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
    Fleet Reserve Association
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    USS Landing Craft Infantry National Association
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