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NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive

USS LCI(L)-90

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Delta - Hotel - Juliet
NDHJ

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom. left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive 14 June 1945)
Second Row - Coast Guard Unit Commendation - American Campaign Medal - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal (4)
Third Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)

USS LCI(L)-90 was manned by the US Coast Guard

LCI-1 Class Landing Craft Infantry (Large):

Laid down in October 1942 at Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, TX.

Launched in December 1942

Commissioned USS LCI(L)-90, 6 February 1943, with a Coast Guard crew, LTjg. William E. Stevens, USCGR in command

During World War II USS LCI(L)-90 was assigned to the Europe-Africa-Middle East Theater:
LCI Flotilla Four, CAPT. M. E. Imlay, USCG;
LCI Flotilla Ten, (at Normandy) and participated in the following campaigns:

Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign	Asiatic-Pacific Campaign
Campaigns and Dates	Campaigns and Dates
North African occupation Tunisian operation, 1 June to 9 July 1943	Okinawa Gunto operation Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 14 to 30 June 1945
Salerno landings, 9 to 21 September 1943
Sicilian occupation, 9 to 15 July 1943
Invasion of Normandy, 6 to 25 June 1944

While assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater USS LCI(L)90 came under the command of LTjg. W. H. Nadon, USCGR as part of:
LCI Flotilla Thirty-Five, CDR. H. J. Wuensch USCG;
LCI Group One Hundred Three, LCDR. B. A. Walliser USCGR;
LCI Division Two Hundred Five;

USS LCI(L)-90 performed ferry and escort duty between England and France, 7 June to 4 October 1944 until departing Falmouth, England 5 October for Charleston, S.C. She arrived at Charleston 24 October 1944 for availability and refit. USS LCI(L)-90 departed Charleston 5 December 1944 for Little Creek, VA. and Solomon Island, MD. for amphibious training. USS LCI(L)-90 departed Norfolk, Va., 13 December 1944, for San Diego, via Key West and Canal Zone, arriving San Diego. At San Diego USS LCI(L)-90 was attached to the Amphibious Training Group there until departing for Okinawa, 20 April 1945, via Pearl Harbor, Eniwetok, Guam, Ulithi, and Leyte, arriving off Okinawa, 3 June 1945.

USS LCI)L)-90 was hit by a Japanese kamikaze plane 14 June 1945 and departed for Saipan and Leyte for repairs

Departed Leyte for Galveston TX, in early December 1945 arriving there 14 February 1946

Decommissioned, 8 April 1946

Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown

Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 13 November 1947, for disposal

USS LCI(L)-90 earned five battle stars for World War II service

Specifications:
Displacement 216 t.(light), 234 t.(landing), 389 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

Complement

2 officer

21 enlisted

Troop Capacity

6 Officers

182 Enlisted

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 knots; and 110 tons of fuel

Armament

four single 20mm guns one forward, one amidship, two aft

later added two .50 cal machine guns

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

Size	Image Description	Source
16k	CDR. Jack Dempsey USCGR along with two unidentified crew members of USS LCI(L)-90, date and location unknown.	James F. Mateyack for Bobby Smith USS LCI(L)-90
1976k	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.	Dave Kerr
74k	From outboard to inboard USS LCI(L)-92, *LCI(L)-94,* *LCI(L)-90,* *LCI(L)-93,* and *LCI(L)-91,* at Port Lyautey, Morocco, in May 1943.	James Mateyack
42k	USS LCI(L)-90 beached while practicing landings troops for the Normandy invasion. Photo was taken in late-April, early-May 1944, location unknown. US Army Signal Corps photo.	Ramon Jackson
146k	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
117k		Robert Morrissey
62k	USS LCI(L)-90 alongside an unidentified transport off the Normandy invasion beaches loading US Army soldiers for the run into the beachhead, or returning wounded from the beachhead, circa 6 June 1944	Bill Brinkley
66k	USS LCI(L)-90 in port, circa 1943-45. Photo by Signalman John R. Smith, Jr., USCGR. Photo courtesy of Robert Smith, son of Signalman John R. Smith USCGR USS LCI(L)-90	Robert Hurst