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USS LCI(L)-92
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Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons
Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive, 6 June 1944-Normandy) - Coast Guard Unit Commendation<
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal (4) - World War II Victory Medal
Individual Awards
Silver Star (LT Robert M. Salmon CO LCI(L)-92) - Purple Heart (number unknown for 6 June 1944)
USS LCI(L)-92 was manned by the US Coast Guard
LCI-1 Class Landing Craft Infantry (Large):
LCI Flotilla Four, CAPT. Myles Imlay, USCG
LCI Group Ten
LCI Division Twenty at Galveston, TX.
LCI Flotilla Ten (at Normandy) and participated in the following campaigns:
Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaigns Campaign and Dates |
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North African occupation
| Tunisian operation, 1 June to 9 July 1943 Salerno landings, 9 to 21 September 1943
| Sicilian occupation, 9 to 15 July 1943
| Invasion of Normandy 6 June 1944
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Specifications:
Displacement 216 t.(light), 234 t.(landing), 389 t.(loaded)
Length 158' 5½"
Beam 23' 3"
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74k | From outboard to inboard USS LCI(L)-92, USS LCI(L)-94, USS LCI(L)-90, USS LCI(L)-93, and USS LCI(L)-91, at Port Lyautey, Morocco, in May 1943. | James Mateyack
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USS LCI(L)-93 and
USS LCI(L)-85,
USS LCI(L)-92,
USS LCI(L)-84 and
USS LCI(L)-349 moored pierside and forward of two unidentified transports at the Pig Iron Battle Fleet Site, Oran, Algeria, October 1943. |
Photo by John R Smith Jr. USS LCI(L)-90. Robert G. Morrissey
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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 G. Morrissey
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USS LCI(L)-91 and LCI(L)-92 enroute to Omaha Beach, Normandy, France, June 1944. |
James Mateyack and Bill Brinkley
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USS LCI(L)-92 lays abandoned on Omaha Beach after D-Day, 6 June 1944. Photo was taken several days after D-Day. Note the hull number has been removed for censorship purposes. |
Franklin Vyn
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USS LCI(L)-92 lays broached on Omaha Beach, date unknown. |
Photo from "Coast Guard at War: Landings in France" Mike Green
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USS LCI(L)-92 abandoned on Omaha Beach, Normandy, France, after D-Day. Note bulldozers attempting to move or secure the ship. |
Franklin Vyn
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USS LCI(L)-92 abandoned on Omaha Beach, Normandy, France, after D-Day. |
James Mateyack
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Close-up view of damage sustained by USS LCI(L)-92 at Omaha Beach, Normandy, France, on D-Day. 6 June 1944. |
James Mateyack and Bill Brinkley
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USS LCI(L)-92 at Omaha Beach, Normandy, France, June 1944 after being abandoned by her crew on D-Day. |
National Archives image Bill Brinkley
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Close-up view of damage sustained by USS LCI(L)-92 at Omaha Beach, Normandy, France, on D-Day. 6 June 1944. |
James Mateyack
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Close-up view of damage sustained by USS LCI(L)-92 at Omaha Beach, Normandy, France, on D-Day. 6 June 1944. |
James Mateyack
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The stern of the wrecked LCT 2337, is shown, and a section of
floating dock in the foreground; left, is the USS LCI(L)-92, grouned on D-Day on Omaha Beach. Right, is the
LCT 199 and in the background
USS LST-543 is being battered by the surf on Omaha Beach during a coastal stomm on 21 June 1944.
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US Coast Guard photo # SC 193919 James Mateyack
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USS LCI(L)-92 and USS LST-543 on Omaha
Beach, between 19 June and 16 July 1944.
At approximately 0800 on 6 June 1944, D-Day, USS LCI(L)-92 was making a straight-in approach onto "Dog White" beach, using smoke as cover and down wind of
beached and burning USS LCI(L)-91 (caused by mines). Just before making the shore, the port and starboard bow experienced two
large explosions in quick succession causing a fuel fire forward. Several of the troops were killed, none of the crew. The fire was fought by the crew until about 1400
when the order to abandon ship was given. As of July 10, 1944 no inspection or survey of the hulk was started.
During the storm of 19 June 1944 USS LST-543 broached on Omaha Beach and remained there until the following spring tides when with the assistance of
several tugs she was able to retract from the beach on 16 July 1944.
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Ref.s LST-543 War Diary and LCI-92 (and LCI-91) Rep. of Ops during D-Day, National Archives. Photographer David Scherman. TimeLife. Life Magazine. TimeLife_Image_116703494. For personal and non-commercial use only. David Upton
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The history for USS LCI(L)-92 is from USS LCI "Landing Craft Infantry", Vol. II. Paducah, Kentucky: Turner Publishing Company, © 1995. (ISBN 1-56311-262-0)
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
USS Landing Craft Infantry National Association
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