Greetings to all LCI lovers! The next National Reunion for the USS Landing Craft Infantry National Association quickly approaches. It will be hosted by the Amphibious Forces Memorial Museum –home [ … ]
Category: March 2017 (No. 96)
Articles that appear in Issue 96 – March 2017
A Really Young WW II Sailor: Vaughn Hampton on the 450
Vaughn Hampton, Bootcamp, Aug. 30, 1943, two months shy of his 15th Birthday The minimum age to join the service in WW II was 17, but we have all heard [ … ]
Man Overboard
USS LCI(G)-450 moored pierside at Saipan, February 1945, awaiting repair of battle damage from the Iwo Jima invasion on 17 February 1945. NavSource By Ivy Roberts of LCI(G) 450 A number [ … ]
Gordon Smith’s Diving Suit Yarn
Gordon Smith, LCI 43 & Diving Suit by Gordon Smith Among the invasion fleet for the invasion of Southern France were the LCI’s #41 and #43. For this invasion, the [ … ]
Final Chapter of the Story of the USS LCI(L) 20
USS LCI(20) during a training exercise on January 20, 1943 at Solomons Maryland 1 year before the Anzio landing Part 2 of 2 Submitted by Robert E. Wright Jr. Son [ … ]
Last Landing of the USS LSI(L) 1091
Construction workers pull out the USS LSI(L) 1091 on to Humboldt Bay Harbor District Recreation and Conservation land in front of the Samoa Cookhouse. Source: Will Houston — The Times-Standard When [ … ]