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USS LCI(G)-547
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 USS LCI(L)-547 (1944 - 1945)


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Whiskey - Echo - India
 NWEI
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (4)
Bottom Row - World War II Victory Medal - Philippines Presidential Unit Citation - Philippines Liberation Medal (2)
LCI-351 Class Landing Craft Infantry (Large):
  • Laid down, 1 January 1944, at New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp., Barber, N.J.
  • Launched, 2 February 1944
  • Commissioned as USS LCI(L)-547, 5 February 1944
  • During World War II USS LCI(L)-547 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:

    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Western New Guinea operations
    Cape Sansapor operation, 31 July and 1 August 1944
    Morotai landings, 15 September 1944     		Luzon operation
    Lingayen Gulf landings; 4 to 18 January 1945
    Leyte operation
    Leyte landings, 19 to 29 November 1944     		Manila Bay-Bicol operations
    El Fraile (Fort Drum), Manila Bay 13 April 1945

  • Reclassified Landing Craft Infantry (Guns) LCI(G)-547, 15 July 1945
  • Redesignated USS LCI(L)-547, 10 September 1945
  • Decommissioned, 1 November 1946
  • Struck from the Naval Register in 1946
  • USS LCI(L)-547 earned four battle stars for World War II service
  • Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal, 29 October 1947
  • Registered in 1951 as the freighter Melinda, reflagged Costa Rica
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 216 t.(light), 234 t.(landing); 389 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
    3 Officers
    21 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
    four single 20mm guns one forward, one amidship, two aft
    two .50cal machine guns
    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 General Motors Diesel engines, 4 per shaft, BHP 1,600
    twin variable pitch propellers
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    LCI(L)-748
    1015074801    		 305k From left to right; USS LCI(L)-958 USS LCI(L)-748 USS LCI(L)-547 and USS LCI(L)-747 during Leyte Gulf landing operations, beached at Tolosa, Leyte, Philippine Islands, in November 1944. Landing parties were equipped with invasion maps and infantry units proceeded inland along routes previously plotted on maps.
    U.S. National Archives Identifier 193800569, a U.S. Army Air Corps photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.    		 David Upton
    LCI(L)-663 741k USS LCI(L)-547 and USS LCI(L)-663 landing troops from the 126th RCT of the 32nd Division at Morotai, the northernmost of the Moluccas Islands, 15 September 1944.
    Photo from the USS LCI National Association's 2009 calendar, a US National Archives photo, courtesy Dennis Blocker.    		 Ardie Hunt
    LCI(L)-547 51k USS LCI(L)-547 landing troops at Morotai, 15 September 1944.
    US National Archives image.    		 Bill Brinkley
    LCI(L)-547 80k USS LCI(L)-547 landing troops at Morotai, 15 September 1944. USS LCI(L)-547 grounded 100 yards from the beach and troops struggled ashore in water up to their necks. The LCI to the left in the photo is USS LCI(L)-663.
    Photo from the USS Landing Craft Infantry National Association 2004 Calendar, courtesy Lew Miller, RM1/c, USS LCI(L)-547    		 Ardie Hunt
    LCI-77/78/81/582/79/547 95k USS LCI(G)-77, USS LCI(G)-78, USS LCI(G)-81, USS LCI(M)-582, USS LCI(G)-79 and LCI(G)-547 moored to a buoy at San Diego, CA., mid-October 1945 after returning home from the Asiatic-Pacific Theater. James E. Mertz for his father Edward H. Mertz MoMM3/c LCI(G)-79
    The history for USS LCI(L)-547 / LCI(G)-547 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
    USS Landing Craft Infantry National Association
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