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USS LCI(M)-362
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 USS LCI(L)-362 (1943 - 1945)


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Hotel - Yankee - Kilo
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Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive) - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (7) - World War II Victory Medal - Philippines Liberation Medal (1)
LCI(L)-351 Class Landing Craft Infantry (Large):
  • Laid down, 15 June 1943, at George Lawley & Sons, Neponset, MA.
  • Launched, 16 July 1943
  • Commissioned USS LCI(L)-362, 26 July 1943
  • Designation changed to Landing Craft Infantry (Mortar) LCI(M)-363, 30 April 1945
  • During World War II USS LCI(L)-362 / LCI(M)-362 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Eastern New Guinea operation
    Saidor occupation, January 1944     		Consolidation and capture of the southern Philippines
    Palawan Islands landings, Puerto Princesa, 28 February to 7 March 1945
    Mindanao Island landings, Zamboanga, 10 and 16 March 1945
    Basilan Island, Sulu Archipelago, 16 March, 1945
    Bongao Island, Tawi-Tawi Island group, 23 March 1945
    Hollandia operation
    21 to 25 April 1944     		Manila Bay-Bicol operations
    Nasugbu, 31 January to 2 February 1945
    Western New Guinea operation
    Biak Island operation, 27 May to 1 June 1944     		Borneo operations
    Tarakan Island operation, 27 April to 5 May 1945
    Luzon operation
    Lingayen Gulf landings, 4 to 18 January 1945     		.

  • Decommissioned, date unknown
  • Struck from the Naval Register in 1946
  • Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 3 May 1948, for disposal
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
  • USS LCI(L)-362 received seven battle stars for WWII service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 246 t.(light), 264 t. (landing), 419 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 4 Officers, 24 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(M) Armament one single 40mm gun, forward, four 20mm guns, three 4.2mm 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 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)-362 82k USS LCI(L)-362 and USS LCI(L)-363 unloading troops and supplies at Biak Island, 28 May 1944. Photo from the USS LCI Association 2007 calendar, courtesy Bill Ringle. A US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives. Ardie Hunt
    LCI(L)-362 539k USS LCI(L)-362 beached in New Guinea, 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
    LCI(L)-362 78k USS LCI(M)-362's officers. LTjg. Charles Uhl, Executive Officer (center) flanked by LTJG Henry Peterson, Commanding Officer, and Ensign Ernest Groos, Fourth Officer.
    Photo courtesy Charles Uhl, USS LCI(M)-362 and the USS Landing Craft Infantry National Association.    		 Ardie Hunt
    The history for USS LCI(L)-362 / LCI(M)-362 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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