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USS LCI(M)-631
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USS LCI(G)-631 (1944 - 1945)
USS LCI(L)-631 (1944)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Papa - Lima - Echo
NPLE

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Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - China Service Medal (extended) - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)

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USS LCI(M)-631 was transferred to Taiwan, named ROCS Lien Hua (L-285)

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During World War II USS LCI(L)(G)(M)-631 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
LCI Flotilla Twenty-One, CDR. L. B. Balliere, USNR;
LCI Group Sixty-One, LCDR. W. T. Dom, USNR;
LCI Division One Hundred Twenty-One and participated in the following campaigns

Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
Iwo Jima operation (USS LCI(G)-631) Assault and occupation of Iwo Jima, 19 to 26 February 1945	Okinawa Gunto operation (USS LCI(G)-631 and USS LCI(M)-631) Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 26 March to 14 June 1945

Following World War II USS LCI(M)-631 was assigned to Occupation and China service in the Far East for the following periods:

Navy Occupation Service Medal	China Service Medal (extended)
23 October to 11 December 1945	11 December 1945 to 12 June 1946

Final Disposition, fate unknown

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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(M) Complement 4 Officers, 49 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, 10 MK7 rocket launchers

LCI(M) Armament one single 40mm gun, forward, four 20mm guns, three 4.2" chemical mortars mounted in three 4ft x 4ft wooden walled 2" x 6" high sand boxes on the well deck with the three tripod mortar tubes in position to fire forward over the bow, No. 2 Troop Compartment (under well deck) converted to a magazine

Fuel Capacity

Diesel 860 Bbls

lube oil 200 gal

Propulsion

two sets of 4 General Motors 6051 series 71 Diesel engines, 4 per shaft

single General Motors Main reduction gears

two Diesel-drive 30Kw 120V D.C. Ship's Service Generators

twin variable pitch propellers, 2,320shp

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Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Source
USS LCI(M)-631
	43k	USS LSM-285 moored with other LSMs and LCTs including USS LCI(L)-614, USS LCI(M)-631, USS LCI(G)-233 and USS LST-1075, date and location unknown.		Joel Price for his father ENS. Phil Price USNR, XO LSM-285
ROCS Lien Hua (L-285)
	43k	Ex-USS LCI(M)-631 under way in the Republic of China service as ROCS Lien Hua (L-285), circa 1963, location unknown. Official Republic of China Navy photo.		Robert Hurst
	42k	ROCS Lien Hua (L-285), dressed in flags, date and location unknown. Official Republic of China Navy photo from "Jane's Fighting Ships", 1958-59".		Robert Hurst

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The history for USS LCI(L)-631 / LCI(G)-631 / LCI(M)-631 is from USS LCI "Landing Craft Infantry", Vol. II. Paducah, Kentucky: Turner Publishing Company, © 1995. (ISBN 1-56311-262-0)

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

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