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USS LCI(M)-431
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USS LCI(L)-431 (1943 - 1945)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Kilo - Juliet - Lima
NKJL

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (5)
Bottom Row - World War II Victory Medal - Philippines Presidential Unit Citation - Philippines Liberation Medal (2)

LCI-351 Class Landing Craft Infantry (Large):

Laid down, 9 April 1943, at New Jersey Shipbuilding Co., Barber N.J.

Launched, 24 June 1943

Commissioned USS LCI(L)-431, 15 July 1943

Reclassified Landing Craft Infantry (Mortar) LCI(M)-431, 30 April 1945

During World War II LCI(L)-431 / LCI(M)-431 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:

Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
Hollandia operation, 21 to 25 April 1944	Consolidation and capture of the Southern Philippines Palawan Island landings, 31 January to 2 February 1945, 28 February to 7 March 1945 Sulu Archipelago landings, 2 to 4 April 1945, 9 to 11 April 1945
Western New Guinea operations Biak Island operation, 27-28 May 1944	Borneo operation Brunei Bay operation, 10 June 1945
Luzon operation Lingayen Gulf landing, 4 to 18 January 1945

Decommissioned in 1946

Struck from the Naval Register, 28 March 1946

USS LCI(L)-431 earned five battle stars for World War II service

Sold, 5 December 1946

Final Disposition, fate unknown

Specifications:
Displacement 236 t.(light), 264 t.(landing), 419 t.(loaded)
Length 158' 5½"
Beam 23' 3"

Draft

Light, 3'1½" mean

Landing, 2' 8" forward, 4' 10" aft

Loaded, 5' 4" forward, 5' 11" aft

Speed

16 kts (max.)

14 kts maximum continuous

LCI(L) Complement

4 Officers

24 Enlisted

LCI(M) Complement

4 Officers

49 Enlisted

LCI(L) Troop Capacity

6 Officers

182 Enlisted

LCI(L) Cargo Capacity 75 tons

Armor 2" plastic splinter protection on gun turrets, conning tower and pilot house

Endurance 4,000 miles at 12 kts, loaded, 500 miles at 15 kts; and 110 tons of fuel

LCI(L) Armament

five single 20mm gun mounts, one bow mounted, one each port and starboard forward of wheelhouse, one each port and starboard aft of wheelhouse

on some LCIs two .50 cal machine guns were added

LCI(M) Armament

one single 40mm gun mount, forward

four 20mm gun mounts

three 4.2" chemical mortars mounted in three 4ft x 4ft wooden walled 2" x 6" high sand boxes on the well deck with the three tripod mortar tubes in position to fire forward over the bow, No. 2 Troop Compartment (under well deck) converted to a magazine

Fuel Capacity

Diesel 860 Bbls

lube oil 200 gal

Propulsion

two sets of 4 General Motors 6051 series 71 Diesel engines, 4 per shaft

single General Motors Main reduction gears

two Diesel-drive 30Kw 120V D.C. Ship's Service Generators

twin variable pitch propellers, 2,320shp