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
By Jeff Veesenmeyer Image above is of the HMS Spartan lost 46 dead and 42 wounded During the naval battle of Anzio, the British cruiser HMS Spartan was hit amidships [ … ]
Operation Magic Carpet…Was Not A Luxury Cruise Home
By Jeff Veesenmeyer Image above shows Troops arriving home on board the USS General Harry Taylor. Have you ever complained about the crowding on airplanes? Our veterans who were overseas [ … ]
The Greatest “Industrial” Generation
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
By Abe Laurenzo, RM-1/C, LCI 47, 409 NASB: James 4:14,15; John 1:12; II Cor 6:2; Prov 27:1; I Tim 6:17; I Cor 2:9; Isiah 64:4; Heb 4:13 Amplified version Ephesians [ … ]
Memories of LCI(G)-455
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
by Vernon Wallace as told to Tom Gorham PROLOGUE From our 2019 perspective, knowing that VE and then VJ Day were just few months away, it may seem strange that [ … ]
Memories of the LCI(L)-41
Story originally published in Elsie Item #25 June 1998. Submitted By Ken Stern LCI 41 started out as a regular square-conn in the l to 350 class of LCIs. The [ … ]
Vaughn Brown’s LCI(R) 1077 Career
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 [ … ]
A Lucky Japanese Dive-Bomber Spoils the Day for the LCI(G) 23 Gunboat
By Sgt. BILL ALCINE, YANK Staff Correspondent (submitted by Robert Wright, Jr.) BATABAGNON,THE PHILIPPINES It was. a beautiful day. The Philippine sun re-flected on the wave-dimpled surface of small Opong [ … ]
Guns Behind Palagi Rock
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
By Jeff Veesenmeyer There was a strange silence on board the LCI 35…and on the streets of Brighton too. The Normandy invasion had begun. Over 280,000 men were crossing the [ … ]
David’s Journey
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
This is truly one of the most intriguing stories of LCI’s I have ever come across. We are indebted again to Hank Henderson, LCI(R)-765 for this story which, for obvious [ … ]
Navy Beachmasters on “Red & Green” Omaha
By Jeff Veesenmeyer Ensign Joseph Vahgi couldn’t sleep. He was playing cards below deck on Coast Guard LCI(L) 88 (Landing Craft Infantry Large). The flat bottomed, 300-ton amphibious ship rolled [ … ]