Image: Landing Craft Infantry-LCI(L)196

Description: Sicily Invasion, July 1943. Soldiers loading bags and other items from a DUKW to USS LCI(L)-196, in the Scoglitti area. USS LCI(L)-196 (1943-1947), later LCI(G)-196 USS LCI(L)-196, a 246-ton landing craft, infantry, was built by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company and commissioned in February 1943. She served in the Mediterranean Sea during 1943-44, participating in the invasions of Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, Elba and Southern France. Modified for gunfire support of amphibious operations and renamed LCI(G)-196 in July 1945, she took part in occupation service in the western Pacific and China areas during the last months of 1945. Decommissioned after that duty, LCI(G)-196 was transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal in November 1947.
Title: Landing Craft Infantry-LCI(L)196
Credit: Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. Photo #: NH 97260. From this page: http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-l/lci196.htm Originally uploaded to EN Wikipedia as en:File:Landing Craft Infantry-LCI(L)196.jpg by en:User:Rapscallion 28 November 2004.
Author: Official U.S. Navy Photograph
Permission: This file is a work of a sailor or employee of the U.S. Navy, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, it is in the public domain in the United States.
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