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 [ … ]
Category: Ships
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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]