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USS LCI(M)-742
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USS LCI(G)-742 (1944 - 1945)
USS LCI(L)-742 (1944)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Quebec - Lima - Mike
NQLM

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Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive-Iwo Jima)
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (3) - World War II Victory Medal

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During World War II USS LCI(L)-742 / LCI(G)-742 / LCI(M)-742 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
LCI Flotilla Fourteen, CAPT. T.W. Rimer;
LCI Group Forty (flagship), LCDR. H. Brown;
LCI Division Seventy-Nine and participated in the following campaigns:

Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
Western Caroline Islands operation Capture and occupation of southern Palau Islands, 6 September 14 October 1944	Okinawa Gunto operation Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 1 to 7 April 1945
Iwo Jima operation Assault and occupation of Iwo Jima, 19 February to 3 March 1945

Final Disposition, scrapped in 1955

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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 869 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
	67k	USS LCI(M)-742 underway, date and location unknown.		Bill Brinkley
	90k	USS LCI(M)-742 underway in the Pacific, circa 1944-45, location unknown. Photo by Lionell Tucker USS LCI(M)-1057.		Robert Morrissey

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The history for USS LCI(L)-742 / LCI(G)-742 / LCI(M)-742 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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Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Western Caroline Islands Attack Landing Order
Beach White Peleliu - CTF 32 Operation Plan A501-44 Appendix 4 to Annex "D"
USS Landing Craft Infantry National Association

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