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USS LCI(G)-475
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 USS LCI(L)-475 (1943 - 1944)


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Quebec - Quebec - India
 NQQI
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 (4) - World War II Victory Medal
Bottom Row - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - Philippines Presidential Unit Citation - Philippines Liberation Medal (2)
LCI-351 Class Landing Craft Infantry (Large):
  • Laid down, 28 August 1943, at New Jersey Shipbuilding Co., Barber, N.J.
  • Launched, 30 September 1943
  • Commissioned as USS LCI(L)-475, 7 October 1943, LT. C. W. Hartness USNR in command (May 1945)
  • Reclassified Landing Craft Infantry (Gunboat), LCI(G)-475, 15 June 1944
  • During World War II USS LCI(L)-475 / LCI(G)-475 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
    (at Okinawa) LCI Flotilla Three. CDR. M. J. Malanaphy / CDR. Eikel R. Jr. USNR;
     LCI Group Nine, LCDR C. J. Starkus, USN (Ret);
     LCI Division Seventeen and participated in the in the following campaigns:

    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaigns and Dates Campaigns and Dates
    Marianas operations
    Capture and occupation of Guam, 21 to 28 July 1944    		 Luzon operation
    Lingayen Gulf landing, 9 January 1945
    Leyte operation
    Leyte landings, 20 October 1944     		Okinawa Gunto operation
    Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 24 March to 1 June 1945
  • Decommissioned, date unknown
  • Struck from the Naval Register in 1946
  • USS LCI(G)-475 earned four battle stars for World War II service
  • Final Disposition, scrapped in 1948 by Harbor Marine Salvage, San Diego, CA.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 246 t.(light), 264 t. (landing), 419 t.(loaded)
    Length 158' 5 1/2"
    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(G) Complement
    5 Officers
    65 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 guns, 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(G) Armament
    two single 40mm guns
    four single 20mm guns
    six .50cal machine guns
    ten MK7 rocket launchers
    Fuel Capacity 130 tons, lube oil 200 gal.
    Propulsion two sets of 4 GM diesels, 4 per shaft, BHP 1,600
    twin variable pitch propellers
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    LCI(G)-475 157k USS LCI(G)-475 at Samar Island, Philippines, February 1945 Harold S. Radcliffe MoMM2/C USS LCI(G)-475
    The history for USS LCI(L)-475 / LCI(G)-475 is from USS LCI "Landing Craft Infantry", Vol. II. Paducah, Kentucky: Turner Publishing Company, © 1995. (ISBN 1-56311-262-0)
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    USS Landing Craft Infantry National Association
    Chronology of LCI(L)-475 / LCI(G)-475
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