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Saluting Our Coast Guard Shipmates – Flotilla Ten at Normandy and the loss of LCIs 85, 91, 92 and 93
Bill Simmons: An Honored World War II Veteran
Gator Heroes Decorated
Operation Magic Carpet…Was Not A Luxury Cruise Home
The Greatest “Industrial” Generation
Chaplain’s Corner: On Time In 2019
Some Observations from Officers Country
Memories of LCI(G)-455
Post-VJ Day LCI
Memories of the LCI(L)-41
Vaughn Brown’s LCI(R) 1077 Career
30 Days
A Lucky Japanese Dive-Bomber Spoils the Day for the LCI(G) 23 Gunboat
Guns Behind Palagi Rock
Fond Memories of LCI 35 and a Dance Floor in Brighton, England

The LCI(L)-85 is featured in National Geographic's Drain the Ocean: Secrets of D-Day airing Monday, June 3 at 9PM. You can read more about the LCI(L)-85 in this article from our ELSIE Item Archives

Saluting Our Coast Guard Shipmates – Flotilla Ten at Normandy

LCI(R)-1077, ELSIE ITEM

March 2019

Elsie Item 104
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Elsie Item 104
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Elsie Item 104
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By Vaughn Brown, Ken Campbell, Pat Campbell

Vaughn Brown’s LCI(R) 1077 Career

LCI(R)-1077, ELSIE ITEM

By Ken Stern and Earle L. Bailey QM1/c

Memories of the LCI 41

LCI(L)-41, ELSIE ITEM

By Bremmer Martha PhM1/c

Memories of LCI(G)-455

LCI(G)-455, ELSIE ITEM

By Vernon Wallace as told to Tom Gorham

Post-VJ Day LCI

Post-VJ Day LCI

Post-VJ Day LCI

LCI(M)-632, ELSIE ITEM

December 2018

Elsie Item 103
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By Jeff Veesenmeyer

Guns Behind Palagi Rock

LCI(L)-365, ELSIE ITEM

By Jeff Veesenmeyer

Fond Memories of LCI 35 and a Dance Floor in Brighton, England

LCI(L)-35, ELSIE ITEM

By Sgt. BILL ALCINE

A Lucky Japanese Dive-Bomber Spoils the Day for the LCI(G) 23 Gunboat

LCI(G)-23, ELSIE ITEM

By Robert E Wright, Jr.

30 Days

LCI(R)-337, ELSIE ITEM

By John France

David's Journey

LCI(L)-36, ELSIE ITEM

R E Wrightr

"Now it Can be Told" LCI (R) 765 Takes on a Japanese Destroyer

LCI(R)-765, ELSIE ITEM

Jeff Veesenmeyer

Navy Beachmasters on "Red & Green" Omaha

LCI(L)-88, ELSIE ITEM

By Joe Flynn

Friends in High Places

LCI(G)-347, Elsie Item

By Ralph I. Miller

Where There's Smoke, There's Fire.

LCI(M)-805, Elsie Item, Stories

By Joe Flynn

What’s in a Name?

LCI(L)-339, Elsie Item

By Jim Phillips

Notes from the LCI(G) 70

LCI(G)-70, Elsie Item

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The Tough Beach by Dwight C. Shepler
Saluting Our Coast Guard Shipmates – Flotilla Ten at Normandy and the loss of LCIs 85, 91, 92 and 93
The USS LCI National Association - May 31, 2019

This article first appeared in the January 2007 issue of the Elsie Item (No. 58) and offers details about the loss of four LCIs.  In particular, it discusses the LCI(L)-85 [ … ]

30 Days
February 19, 2019
A Lucky Japanese Dive-Bomber Spoils the Day for the LCI(G) 23 Gunboat
February 19, 2019
Guns Behind Palagi Rock
The USS LCI National Association - February 19, 2019

By Jeff Veesenmeyer The actions on W-Day 21 July 1944 during the initial assault landings on Agat Beach, Guam. The mission of this vessel, and of LCI(G) Division Fifteen, was [ … ]

Fond Memories of LCI 35 and a Dance Floor in Brighton, England
February 19, 2019
President’s Corner – June 2018
February 18, 2019
David’s Journey
The USS LCI National Association - February 18, 2019

by John France 02/17/2018 David Forman was born July 31, 1923. A native of Kings County, New York, he was the son of immigrants. His father Louis was from Latvia [ … ]

“Now it Can be Told” LCI (R) 765 Takes on a Japanese Destroyer
February 18, 2019
March 2019 (No. 104)
Bill Simmons: An Honored World War II Veteran
The USS LCI National Association - May 30, 2019

LCI SAILOR HONORED & NOT FORGOTTEN: Bill Simmons LCI(M) 756 passed away in January 2019. This tribute appeared in his American Legion newsletter. He will always be held in great [ … ]

Gator Heroes Decorated
May 30, 2019
Operation Magic Carpet…Was Not A Luxury Cruise Home
May 30, 2019
The Greatest “Industrial” Generation
The USS LCI National Association - May 30, 2019

By Jeff Veesenmeyer The Greatest Generation put 16.1 million men and women in uniform during WWII. Those numbers are amazing. But the military needed more than uniforms to win the [ … ]

Chaplain’s Corner: On Time In 2019
May 30, 2019
Some Observations from Officers Country
May 3, 2019
Memories of LCI(G)-455
The USS LCI National Association - May 3, 2019

By Bremmer Martha PhM1/c How seasick we were on our first trip in Atlantic on the way to Panama, from the Captain on down. We saw our first hint of [ … ]

Post-VJ Day LCI
May 3, 2019
Memories of the LCI(L)-41
May 3, 2019
Vaughn Odene Brow
Vaughn Brown’s LCI(R) 1077 Career
The USS LCI National Association - May 2, 2019

Written by Vaughn Brown in 2002. This article, his Action Reports, Deck Logs, and photos were scanned, emailed and submitted by Brown’s friends, Ken and Pat Campbell. They say that [ … ]

This Day In History

  • 1941 Sarawak, Borneo occupied by Japanese forces.
  • 1942 Hitler orders combat against partisans in Russia & Balkan.
  • 1943 "The Tamiami Champion" trains (New York to Florida) collide in Rennert, North Carolina 74 people were killed and 200 injured on the Atlantic Coast Line when the northbound Tamiami Champion struck the derailed rear three carriages of its southbound counterpart. It remains the deadliest train wreck ever in North Carolina.
  • 1944 Battle of the Bulge begins as German forces launch a surprise attack against Allied forces through the Ardennes Forest in Belgium and Luxembourg (the Allies were eventually able to turn the Germans back).  German V-2 rocket strikes Antwerp bioscope killing 638.  The U.S. 2nd Infantry division occupies "Heartbreak Crossroads" at Wahlerscheid, Germany.
  • 1945 The Cleveland Rams defeated the Washington Redskins, 15–14, at Cleveland Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio for the NFL Championship.  This was the last game before the Rams moved west to Los Angeles.

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