By Dominick Maurone LCI(G) 440 A few days after the Landings at Normandy France the United States Navy along with Marine and Army Divisions launched Operation Forager on the other [ … ]
Category: LCI 450
LCI (G) 450 – Vaughn Hampton, For His buddy, George Kern (F3/c.)
George Kern USS LCI (G) 450 Memoirs Transcribed by Vaughn Hampton I will start with the beginning of his log. George’s hand-written log starts on 1/19/44 entered into a 4.25″x6.75″ lined [ … ]
LCI (G) 450 Saga
By Ensign R. C. Haines This is the history of one of those many WWII US Navy Amphibious ships that Navy Brass gave numbers instead of names. In voice communications [ … ]
LCI (G) 450 Poems
By William Summerly Life on an LCI could be terrifying one minute and boring the next. Not everything went according to plan when Mother Nature or the enemy had other [ … ]
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 [ … ]