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From left to right, front row:
USS LCI(L)-218,
USS LCI(L)-35,
USS LCI(L)-14,
USS LCI(L)-326,
USS LCI(L)-88,
USS LCI(L)-91 and
USS LCI(L)-229
From left to right back row:
USS LCI(L)-2,
USS LCI(L)-90,
USS LCI(L)-320,
USS LCI(L)-16,
USS LCI(L)-3,
USS LCI(L)-213,
USS LCI(L)-321,
USS LCI(L)-4,
USS LCI(L)-86,
USS LCI(L)-212,
USS LCI(L)-217,
USS LCI(L)-8,
USS LCI(L)-83 and
USS LCI(L)-94,
massed at Bizerte, Tunisia, 6 July 1943 while loading troops for the invasion of Sicily.
US Army Signal Corps photo # 176486, now in the collections of the US National Archives. |
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USS LCI(L)-496, USS LCI(L)-85, USS LCI(L)-88, USS LCI(L)-90, USS LCI(L)-92, and USS LCI(L)-491, prepare for the Invasion of Normandy while in an English port, circa 5 June 1944.
Images are from the DVD "D-Day Code Name: Overlord" with the permission of Denver Collins, Editor, Timeless Media Group, Eugene OR. |
Robert Morrissey
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USS LCI(L)-88 underway off the coast of Normandy, circa June 1944 |
Bill Brinkley |
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USS LCI(L)-88 about 0735 hours, 6 June 1944. Action footage of the landing of engineers onto Easy Red Beach, Omaha Sector. LCI(L)-88
was the first LCI(L) on this beach. From the Report of Operations of this vessel; "Despite enemy machine gun and shell fire, all army personnel were disembarked except one wounded private.
Prior to withdrawing from the beach at 0739, a direct shell hit was received on the starboard side forward, damaging starboard ramp beyond repair, and killing one man, wounding mortally one
man, of the ship's crew. One man was missing in action, believed killed by gunfire while ashore with the life-line for troops, in performance of his assigned duty....this vessel did not fire
its 20mm guns."
Frames from a short film named "LCIs Leave England for Invasion, Convoy At Anchor, Troops Land in France, LST Sinks, Unloading Activities." National Archives ID 77077;
Local ID 428-NPC-4359. Dept. of the Navy. Filmed by PH 3/C Gilbert J. DeStefano US Coast Guard onboard LCI(L)88.
Ref. USS LCI(L) 88 - Report of Operations, Period 6/5-6/44 - Invasion of Normandy, France, National Archives. |
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Aboard USS LCI(L)-88, standing in the foreground, Chief Ralph Gault, USCG, wearing the khaki working uniform, poses with part of his deck hands and former World Boxing Champion, Commander Jack Dempsey |
Ken Davey, son of Lt. J. Russell Davey, Jr., MC, USNR |
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Four sailors aboard USS LCI(L)-88 sport unusual haircuts.
Photo from USS LCI National Association's newsletter Elsie Item, March 2010 issue. |
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Coastguardsman Ralph Gault, interviewed for the DOD documentary "Navy Medicine at Normandy," described the heroic sacrifice of his
USS LCI(L)-88 shipmates at 0735 on D-Day. While putting ashore CDR. Carusi, Dr. Davey, and Beachmaster Joe Vaghi's 6th Naval Beach Battalion C-8 platoon,
an exploding 88-mm shells killed Warren Moran (pictured), Rocky Simone, and Bill Frere. New Yorker war correspondent A.J. Liebling was literally drenched in USCG blood,
unable to see through his glasses |
Ken Davey, son of Lt. J. Russell Davey, Jr., MC, USNR |
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The American battle flag that flew above USS LCI(L)-88 as she discharged her 6th Naval Beach Battalion troops on "Easy Red"
Omaha Beach at 0735 on D-Day 6 June 1944. |
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USS LCI(L)-88 crewmen take aim at a floating mine in the KII Suido straits while participating in mine sweeping operations off Japan,
between 11 to 27 September 1945.
US national Archives Identifier 205585324 Local Identifier 26-G-02-13-46(1), US Coast Guard photo # 02-13-46(1). |
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USS LCI(L)-88 moored inboard of USS LCS(L)-107 while tied up alongside two Japanese Imperial Navy submarines (probably IJN Submarine I-400 and IJN Submarine I-14). Both submarines were capable of launching aircraft.Photo was taken at Sasebo, Japan. in November 1945. |
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